Nintendo teased "#WhoIsEmio?" with a cryptic video in July, revealing Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club on Nintendo eShop. This marks the series' return after 30 years, developed ...

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 ...

40 years ago the videogame industry started to undergo a seismic shift, but it would take over two years for almost anybody in North America to realize it. On July 15, 1983, while the games industry ...

You’ll read a lot about the U.S. video games industry’s financial nosedive in 1983, as if that crash — when U.S. consumers walked away from a glut of lackluster games and billions of dollars in ...

Before the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, there was the Family Computer, or Famicom. Much like the NES Classic Edition in the West, Nintendo has released a similar micro console in Japan ...

If you are still hoping to snag a hard-to-find NES Classic or the Famicom Mini in Japan, you don’t have very much time. In a surprising move, Nintendo has ceased production of the nostalgia machines — ...

All the way back in 1986, Nintendo released one of its coolest devices ever. And you've likely never heard of it. The Famicom Disk System was an add-on to the Famicom, which was the Japanese version ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Nintendo is bringing its Famicom Detective Club games to the West more than 30 years after their original release. As announced during the February ...

Nintendo of Japan had an announcement during its version of today's Nintendo Direct that didn't show up during the North American broadcast: The company is releasing a Super Famicom-themed limited ...

The Nintendo Entertainment System and the Family Computer (or “Famicom“) are technically the same console, capable of playing the same games–aside from regional exclusives and that sort of thing. That ...

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