It is a portable console conversion of the original Famicom, whose cartridges were significantly smaller in size than those of the NES that reached the rest of the world. In other words ...

Famicom games came in a variety of colorful designs, and their small size made them easy to store away. Nintendo also wasn't as restrictive on third-party Famicom developers, as some of the ...

The Famicom wasn't Nintendo's first home console ... Late-period games like Dragon Warrior 4 can be up to 512KB in size. (Japan's Metal Slader Glory actually topped out at a full megabyte ...

Famicom cartridges were generally constructed ... due to the belt’s unique size. As you can see in the picture, this unit is no exception. At some point the belt degraded, snapped, and wrapped ...

can store more than a dozen standard-size NES cartridges without even breaking a sweat. When the Famicom Mini series hit the scene, with each game retailing for 2200 yen, I thought that there'd be ...

The Sharp C1 Famicom was CRT television with a Famicom (precursor to the NES) built in. It allegedly had better picture quality than either a Famicom or NES with a separate television, and this ...

There was a period of time in the Eighties where the Japanese developer was more amenable to adult-oriented content like Famicom Detective Club, a murder mystery adventure duology published in 1988.

The gaming accessory manufacturer is dipping its toe in the keyboard business with the $99.99 Retro Mechanical Keyboard, which comes with two kinda NES-style programmable buttons. The gaming ...

Three decades ago, Nintendo debuted its first home console, the Famicom, alongside several other contenders for control of Japan's nascent home gaming market. A combination of great hardware ...

It wasn't always that way, though; back in the '80s, Nintendo launched the Famicom two and a half years before its test run in the U.S. as the Nintendo Entertainment System. Thanks to that delay ...

On July 15, 1983, while the games industry was collapsing in the U.S., Nintendo released the Family Computer, or Famicom, in Japan. The 8-bit console built on Nintendo’s early ‘80s arcade ...