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Nintendo of Europe posted a new trailer for the NES Classic Edition earlier today, and now Nintendo of America has followed up with something of its own. View a new video showing off the hardware’s features below.

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System Features Three HD Display Modes and Easy-to-Use Suspend Points for Saving

Nintendo has put together a new press release about the latest Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition details.

As previously mentioned, 30 titles are included in the hardware. Nintendo says that “the games look sharper than ever using the included HDMI cable.”

You’ll be able to access everything through the Home Menu, which is where the different games can be found. It’s also possible to adjust settings from the hub. To locate games quickly, users can hit the “Select” button to sort by title, two-player games, recently played games, number of times played, release date and publisher.

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Update (9/30): This can now be pre-ordered on Amazon Japan. Ships to the United States.

Original (9/29): A few months ago, the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition (otherwise known as the Nintendo Classic Mini) was announced for North America and Europe. Now something similar has been revealed for Japan.

Today, Nintendo shared news that Nintendo Classic Mini: Famicom (or Family Computer) is coming to its home region. It’ll be available on November 10 for 5,980 yen. An AC adapter will go on sale on the same day for 1,000 yen.

Here’s a video:

Japan’s lineup of games is slightly different than what’s included in the NES Mini. We have it below.

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A few days ago, My Nintendo Picross – The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was extended in Europe in Japan. The same has now been done in North America as well.

My Nintendo Picross – The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess can be redeemed “until further notice.” In other words, there’s no end date anymore – previously it was October 1. You can pick it up for 1,000 Platinum Points.

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Nintendo has updated their European My Nintendo reward site with 20% discounts for the newest additions to the Nintendo Select line, which includes Mario Party 10, Super Mario 3D World, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and Pikmin 3.

The discount code costs 30 Gold Points, and give you a 20% discount on the title of your choosing which would bring these down from €24.99 or £19.99 to about $20 or £16 each. Also worth noting is that you’ll be getting the 30 Gold Points spent to get the discount back from the purchase of the Nintendo Select title.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in General Nintendo, News | 45 Comments

While Paris Games Week is not as big of a deal as gamescom or E3, it’s still a nice convention that you should definitely check out if you can. However, if you’re attending this year, don’t expect to see Nintendo there as well. The company confirmed to jeuxvideo.com that they would not be attending Paris Games Week 2016, which takes place from October 27th to October 31st, because it “did not fit their annual plan”.

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Over the past few days, the e-Capcom Twitter account has been rolling out photos of the first wave of Monster Hunter amiibo. Along with the figures themselves, we’re also able to see which boxes they come in. Have a look at the various images below.

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These days, it’s easy to associate Sonic with Nintendo. The character has appeared in Olympics games with Mario, and SEGA even partnered with the big N on some exclusive games. During the early ’90s, however, things were much different as Mario and Sonic were pretty big rivals.

Game Informer put up a new piece today about how Sonic eventually landed on Nintendo platforms following SEGA’s exit from the gaming hardware business. It contains some interesting quotes from the likes of creator Yuji Naka, Sonic developer Takashi Iizuka, and even Shigeru Miyamoto.

Read up on some noteworthy comments below. You can find Game Informer’s article here for more.

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Update: Here’s the regular, latest episode of Nyannyan Neko Mario Time:

The latest episode of Nintendo’s Japanese show Nyannyan Neko Mario Time has now gone live, specifically focusing on Paper Mario: Color Splash. We’ve included it below.

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In a recent issue of Famitsu, the magazine posted the results of a recent survey conducted. 893 people participated, and were asked to vote on their favorite game developer.

Who came out on top? That honor goes to Nintendo, though other developers such as The Pokemon Company, Capcom, Square Enix, and SEGA made the list.

Here are the full results:

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