Nintendo is releasing a gold and red Famicom Mini in Japan that comes preloaded with 20 games that are based on manga, as spotted by Kotaku. The Famicom is the original Japanese version of the NES, ...

Nintendo revealed today that it will stop manufacturing its Famicom (NES) and Super Famicom (SNES) consoles in Japan in September. Likewise, Nintendo will also stop its disk-rewriting services for the ...

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 ...

Did you know that Atari, at the height of their power in the American video game industry, nearly licensed the Famicom technology from Nintendo? Atari Museum has a fascinating memo describing a 1983 ...

Nintendo goes with a blast from the past in their latest ad for Nintendo Classic Mini: Famicom, which shows a throwback to one of their older commercials for the original Famicom in 1983. [Thanks, ...