Nintendo's original 8-bit home console, the Famicom, turned 30 years old last week. It's a milestone that gamers outside of Japan have recognized, but, for us, it's mostly just serving as a reminder ...

Twenty bucks a pop is a little much to ask for re-issues of classic NES games, especially when several companies have released compilations of games on the Game Boy Advance for that much. But that's ...

Last July, Nintendo announced the NES Classic, a miniature replica of the NES [full specs] that came bundled with one controller (with a too-short cord) and 30 games. It released with a price of $60 ...

More than 30 years after their original releases in 1988 and 1989, both Famicom Detective Club games have received modern remakes on Nintendo Switch. I had never played either game before, but I went ...

Without Nintendo's Famicom there would be no NES. And without the NES, chances are, the video game industry as we know it would never have existed. It's hard to appreciate history while you're living ...

There have always been slight regional differences between consoles, but when the Nintendo Entertainment System hit store shelves in the fall of 1985 it had been stripped of nearly all the form and ...

With all the supply issues of the SNES Classic Edition in the U.S. and Europe, its Japanese cousin the Super Famicom Mini is more widely available here and is a lovely little piece of gaming hardware.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Tucked away within the emulator of the Famicom Mini is a message ...

Summer is a time to get lost in words. Vacationers usually pick up books to read by the pool or at the beach. If you’re a gamer, the equivalent to a good read is an adventure game or visual novel.

Today, Japan saw the release of the most powerful gaming console on the market alongside what may well be the least. For about a tenth of the price of the PlayStation 4 Pro and probably even less of ...

Nintendo's Famicom has turned 40 years old, if you can believe it. The little console that could pretty much singlehandedly saved the video game industry with classics such as Donkey Kong, Super Mario ...