*** Welcome to piglix ***

Masayuki Uemura

Nintendo Entertainment System
Official Nintendo Entertainment System logo
Family Computer logo
Nintendo Entertainment System with controller
Nintendo Family Computer
Top: Nintendo Entertainment System with controller
Bottom: Nintendo Family Computer with controller
Also known as Family Computer/Famicom (Japan)
Hyundai Comboy (Korea)
Developer Nintendo
Manufacturer Nintendo
Type Home video game console
Generation Third generation
Release date
  • JP: July 15, 1983 (1983-07-15)
  • NA/KR: October 18, 1985 (1985-10-18)
  • EU: September 1, 1986 (1986-09-01)
  • EU/AU: 1987
Retail availability 1983–2008
Introductory price ¥14,800 (Japan)
$299 (US Deluxe Set)
Discontinued
  • NA: August 14, 1995 (1995-08-14)
  • JP: September 25, 2003 (September 25, 2003)
Units sold Worldwide: 61.91 million
Japan: 19.35 million
Americas: 34.00 million
Other: 8.56 million
Media ROM cartridge ("Game Pak")
CPU Ricoh 2A03 8-bit processor (MOS Technology 6502 core)
Controller input 2 controller ports
1 expansion slot
Best-selling game
Predecessor Color TV Game
Successor Super NES

The Nintendo Entertainment System (commonly abbreviated as NES) is an 8-bit home video game console that was developed and manufactured by Nintendo.

The best-selling gaming console of its time, the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983. With the NES, Nintendo introduced a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers, authorizing them to produce and distribute titles for Nintendo's platform.

It was initially released in Japan as the Family Computer (Japanese: ファミリーコンピュータ, Hepburn: Famirī Konpyūta?) (also known by the portmanteau abbreviation Famicom (ファミコン, Famikon?) and abbreviated as FC) on July 15, 1983, and was later released in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986, and Australia in 1987. In South Korea, it was known as the Hyundai Comboy (현대 컴보이 Hyeondae Keomboi) and was distributed by SK Hynix which then was known as Hyundai Electronics. It was succeeded by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

In 2009, the Nintendo Entertainment System was named the single greatest video game console in history by IGN, in a list of 25. It was judged the second greatest console behind the Sega Dreamcast in PC Magazine's "Top 10 Video Game Consoles of All Time".


...
Wikipedia

...