Video games are a cyclical hobby. When Nintendo released the Famicom/NES, it was the hottest hardware with the best lineup of games the industry had ever seen. After enough time passed, though, that ...

When the Famicom Detective Club remakes came out in 2021, I simply thought they were a fantastic spruce up of one of the grandfathers of visual novel games. I could have never guessed that ...

Whether you’re a visual novel veteran or someone new to the genre looking for an engaging, high-quality introduction, Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club simply cannot be missed.

A sequel to the NES’ Famicom Detective Club series, Emio — The Smiling Man puts players in control of two teenage sleuths working out of the Utsugi Detective Agency. They’re roped into a ...

The 8BitDo mechanical keyboard with a Famicom-inspired theme is currently on sale for $59.99 (was $99.99). All 8BitDo keyboards draw inspiration from old-school consoles and PCs like the Commodore ...

Nintendo has officially unveiled Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, the next game in the Famicom Detective Club series. Thanks to a brand-new trailer, we now know that the game will ...

Rare opportunity: Nintendo collectors with deep pockets have the rare opportunity to get their hands on an early Super Famicom prototype that looks an awful lot like the pre-production model ...

Twitter/X user limonegongbang has surprised the retro community with their new creation: a Famicom conversion to a portable game console with a backlit screen. And if that were not enough ...

Nintendo's Famicom has turned 40 years old, if you can believe it. The little console that could pretty much singlehandedly saved the video game industry with classics such as Donkey Kong ...

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 ...

Nintendo’s Famicom console launched in Japan on July 15, 1983. To commemorate the system’s 40th anniversary, why not play some of the best Famicom games? Here are Siliconera’s suggestions, ...

It seemed like the end of the video game market until the Nintendo Entertainment System, aka the Famicom, arrived in Japan. The irony here is that, at the time, Nintendo wasn’t known for making ...