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The Nintendo Switch and PlayStation versions of Final Fantasy I-VI Collection Anniversary Edition are $30 off at Amazon.
The Famicom went from a traditional cartridge-based device to the NES, which more closely resembled a cassette player. This rushed redesign introduced a weakness in the console's cartridge pins.
Read/write Famicom Disk System cards (Re)write ultra-cheap COOLBOY cartridges either with soldering (old revisions) or solder-free (new) versions. It also supports both "COOLBOY" (with $600x registers ...
In this article, we’ll break down its physical design, internal technology, and how it communicated with the NES, uncovering why this gamepad left such a lasting mark on the industry. In 1983, when ...
The 1990s were an important transition era, when electronics were getting small enough to be portable but were often still too bulky to be truly useful.
This is an ultra-rare video game guide for Pro Wrestling released on the Famicom Disk System. Later this game would come to the US as Pro Wrestling as part of the sport series cartridges available for ...
They look exactly like Family Computer (“Famicom”) cartridges, but they’re actually card cases. Sega Plaza is Japan’s premier producer of game and anime-related prize products, and though it’s a ...
These new Famicom business card cases announced by Sega are designed to look like miniature versions of the original game cartridges and are intended to store business cards or other small cards.
A rare game cartridge that was given away to readers of Nintendo Power , a North American gaming magazine published by Nintendo of America, has been put up for auction. At the time of writing ...
The idea to change Mega Man from a Famicom Disk System to a regular ROM cartridge was most likely made to capitalize on the original Famicom (or NES outside on Japan) having a bigger player base ...
Retro Meet the portable Famicom that looks like an old-school Walkman A modder converted a Famicom (the Japanese version of the NES) into a handheld console complete with a screen and lots of style.