Background
The video game industry experienced rapid growth and popularity from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, marked by the golden age of arcade games and … 展开

Game Pak
The NES uses a 72-pin design, as compared with 60 pins on the Famicom. To reduce costs and inventory, some early games released in North America are simply Famicom cartridges attached to an adapter to fit inside the … 展开

By 1988, industry observers stated that the NES's popularity had grown so quickly that the market for Nintendo cartridges was larger than that for all … 展开

• History of Nintendo
• Nintendo hard
• Nintendo World Championships 展开

Configurations
Although all versions of the Famicom and NES include essentially similar hardware, they vary in physical characteristics. The original Famicom's design is predominantly white plastic, with dark red trim; it featured a top … 展开

The NES was released two years after the video game crash of 1983, when many retailers and adult consumers regarded electronic games as a … 展开

• Altice, Nathan (2015). I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer/Entertainment System Platform. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-02877-6. 展开