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 with games stored on cartridges. It was redesigned to become the NES, which was released in American test markets on October 18, 1985, and was soon fully launched in North America and other regions.Īfter developing several successful arcade games in the early 1980s such as Donkey Kong (1981), Nintendo planned to create a home video game console. It was first released in Japan in 1983 as the Family Computer ( FC), commonly referred to as Famicom. The Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. Pack-in: Super Mario Bros., 40.24 million (as of September 13, 2010).JP: Septem( September 25, 2003) (Famicom)ĪPU, 5 channels: 2 pulse wave, triangle wave, white noise, DPCM.
