The Famicom was designed by Masayuki Uemura, with its controller design reused from Nintendo's portable Game & Watch hardware. The western NES model was designed by Lance Barr and Don …

Nov 20, 2025 · The Nintendo console, or Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), was released as the Famicom in Japan on July 15, 1983. The Famicom offered the ability to play popular arcade games …

So, after some re-tooling of the guiding principles for arcades and Atari, Nintendo sent forth into living rooms around the world the Famicom, in Japan, and its brother console, the Nintendo Entertainment …

Jul 23, 2025 · In a gaming world still reeling from the North American video game crash of 1983, one machine quietly launched in Japan and rewrote the rules forever. The Nintendo Family Computer, …

Released in 1993, the AV Famicom (HVC-101) is a Famicom that has AV cables and removable "dog-bone" shaped controllers. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. …

The Family Computer (ファミリーコンピュータ), commonly abbreviated as Famicom (ファミコン), is an 8-bit home console manufactured and distributed by Nintendo. The console first released in …

Sep 25, 2025 · The Family Computer (HVC-001: Famicom, FC for short) is a video game console made by Nintendo and sold in Japan starting in 1983. The console would later be sold in Taiwan and Hong …

Although Nintendo had originally created the Famicom to bring its own arcade games into the living room, the success of the system meant that it wouldn’t be long before other game developers like …

It was released as the Family Computer but commonly shortened as either the Famicom or the FC. The Famicom had an extremely long life for a console of over 20 years, from 1983 to 2003, and Nintendo …

It was originally released in 1983 as the Family Computer [a] (and widely known as the Famicom [b]) in Japan, with design work led by Masayuki Uemura.