If there’s one certainty in life, it is that Nintendo Famicom and similar NES clone consoles are quite literally everywhere. What’s less expected is that they were used for a half-serious attempt at ...

40 years ago the videogame industry started to undergo a seismic shift, but it would take over two years for almost anybody in North America to realize it. On July 15, 1983, while the games industry ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The end is nigh for the Japanese Nintendo Classic Mini Family Computer and the Nintendo Classic Mini Super ...

Nintendo’s renewed focus on retro gaming continues as the company is slated to release a manga-focused edition of the Famicom Mini in Japan on July 7. The Famicom—short for Nintendo Family Computer—is ...

Nintendo's Family Computer (Famicom) was marketed in the United States under the name 'Nintendo Entertainment System (NES),' and the console, controller, and cartridges all had completely different ...

The Family BASIC keyboard was a peripheral that was built for programming on the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom. As [Linus Åkesson] demonstrates, though, it can do so much more. Meet the Family ...

Swedish designer and craftsman Love Hultén transforms existing gaming hardware into dreamlike pieces of functional retrofuturist art. His latest work, the FC-PVM, combines a Japanese Famicom console ...

The Japanese version of the NES Classic Edition, called Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer, is getting a very special golden version to celebrate Weekly Shonen Jump’s 50th anniversary with a ...

We saw the wireless NES Controllers for Switch the West is getting, and Japan is getting something similar except they’re getting the Family Computer Controllers based on the original Famicom ...

Shuntaro Furukawa grew up playing the Family Computer, eventually realizing every teenager’s dream of joining the company that made the genre-defining console. Now, as the next president of Nintendo ...