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 gaming 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 on October 18, 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.
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