Famicom's colorful design was inspired by Nintendo's Game & Watch handhelds and was meant to appeal to players of all ages. The Famicom features a top-loading cartridge slot, while the NES used a ...

Update, December 9, 2021: Masayuki Uemura, the lead architect for both the Famicom and Super Famicom, passed away on December 6 at the age of 78. Uemura worked at Nintendo from 1971 to 2004 and ...

Turning the NES into a console that can be played on the go would probably make it the best-selling console of the year. Too bad it was made by a modder and not Nintendo. A modder built a laptop ...

This innovative creation has been designed to play original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games without resorting to emulation. Developed by Tall Dog Electronics, this open-source console ...

launching more than a dozen consoles and portables since the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). And there have been many ups and downs over the last four decades. When considering which Nintendo ...

Legally, console emulation isn’t exactly black and ... and use it to develop something else — of FCE Ultra, a previous NES emulator. This means that it combines different elements from the ...

One such diabolical maker has combined his love of retro consoles with his expertise in 3D printing and robotics to build the NESdestroyer: a repurposed NES console shell with a fully mobile ...

But Nintendo never actually released any accessories for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) that use the expansion port. Theoretically the NES Hub could also support third-party add-ons in ...

Nothing will make you feel old like the anniversary of a much-loved gaming console. Perhaps none more so than the 40th birthday of the Nintendo Entertainment System (or the Famicom as it was known ...

R.I.P. NES Classic. We hardly knew ye. No, really. The pint-sized, 30-games-in-1 recreation of Nintendo's O.G. video games console launched on Nov. 11, 2016 in the United States. It's been sold ...