The code name for the project was "GameCom", but Masayuki Uemura's wife proposed the name "Famicom", arguing that "In Japan, 'pasokon' is used to mean a personal computer, but it is neither a home or personal computer.
Early Famicom games were written on a system that ran on an NEC PC-8001 computer and LEDs on a grid were used with a digitizer to design graphics as no software design tools for this purpose existed at that time. Because 65xx CPUs had not been manufactured or sold in Japan up to that time, no cross-development software was available and it had to be produced from scratch. A test model was constructed in October 1982 to verify the functionality of the hardware, after which work began on programming tools. Original plans called for an advanced 16-bit system which would function as a full-fledged computer with a keyboard and floppy disk drive, but Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi rejected this and instead decided to go for a cheaper, more conventional cartridge-based game console as he believed that features such as keyboards and disks were intimidating to non-technophiles. The console's hardware was largely based on arcade video games, particularly the hardware for Namco's Galaxian (1979) and Nintendo's Radar Scope (1980) and Donkey Kong (1981), with the goal of matching their powerful sprite and scrolling capabilities in a home system. The Famicom game console at the Computer and Video Game Console Museum of Helsinki in 2012įollowing a series of arcade game successes in the early 1980s, Nintendo made plans to create a cartridge-based console called the Family Computer, or Famicom. In 2011, IGN named the NES the greatest video game console of all time. It was succeeded in 1990 by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. and the 1986 action-adventure games The Legend of Zelda and Metroid, which became long-running franchises. The NES featured a number of groundbreaking games, such as the 1985 platform game Super Mario Bros.
It introduced a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers to produce and distribute games. The NES was one of the best-selling consoles of its time, and helped revitalize the US game industry following the video game crash of 1983. Nintendo released several add-ons, such as a light gun for shooting games. The controller design was reused from Nintendo's portable Game & Watch games. Rejecting more complex proposals, the Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi called for a simple, cheap console that ran games stored on cartridges. The NES, a redesigned version, was released in American test markets in October 1985, before becoming widely available in North America and other countries.Īfter developing a series of successful arcade games in the early 1980s, Nintendo planned to create a home video game console.
It was first released in Japan in 1983 as the Family Computer ( FC), commonly known as the Famicom. The Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. Ricoh 2A03 8-bit processor ( MOS Technology 6502 core) JP: Septem( September 25, 2003) (Famicom).
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