Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition site open
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 5 Comments
The official website is now open for the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition. Access it here. There’s not too much new aside from the announcement shared earlier this morning, but the page itself is neat.
There’s also this “Classics” logo at the bottom… and you know what that means: the speculation pot is already stirring. Could Nintendo opt to bring out more versions of its retro systems?
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NES Classic Edition doesn’t include AC adapter in the UK
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The newly-announced Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition has an AC adapter for the USB cable which is required to play. Unfortunately, it’s not included in the box if you’re in the UK. It’s also worth mentioning that the device is called “Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System” in Europe.
Source: Nintendo PR
Nintendo announces Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition, out in November
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Update 3: For those in the United States, Amazon’s placeholder page is now up here.
Update 2: It’s also now live on Amazon Germany. You can also find it on Amazon Italy with the retailer also taking pre-orders for the controller.
Update: Pre-orders now open on Amazon UK.
Nintendo has just announced the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition, “a near-identical, mini replica of Nintendo’s original home console” that plugs into your high-definition TV using an included HDMI cable. The device, which launches on November 11 in North America and Europe, includes 30 NES games built in, including Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, and Kirby’s Adventure. It’ll retail for $59.99.
Here’s the full list of games:
A look at Nintendo’s original news release for the NES and more
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 3 Comments
On Twitter, collector and games archivist Steve Lin has been sharing some interesting paperwork from the NES days. We have a look at the original news release above, and several other items below.
One document is for research Nintendo conducted in January/February of 1986. In it, it’s shown that R.O.B. was one of the leading reasons why kids were so interested in the console.
Nintendo funded research in Jan/Feb 1986 showed the main reason kids wanted an NES was ROB & 90% sell through in NYC pic.twitter.com/dS16dM0QQ0
— Steve Lin (@stevenplin) October 31, 2015
I’ll be scanning and posting all the Nintendo docs soon. In the meantime, putting in my order for new Deluxe Sets. pic.twitter.com/QiARENmueL
— Steve Lin (@stevenplin) October 31, 2015
.@bravrayj New Orleans was listed as “C” market in the nationwide ad campaign. Also, San Francisco was a “B” pic.twitter.com/6ffKc6fV1I
— Steve Lin (@stevenplin) October 31, 2015
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NES designer on the system’s name, setting itself apart from Atari, and success
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Mashable recently had a chance to speak with Masayuki Uemura, the lead designer of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
At one point during the discussion, Uemura commented on how the name was settled on:
“We decided to put Entertainment in the middle. We thought we could maybe piggyback a little bit [on] the naming idea Atari had had, but put something with a little more dynamism and attraction in the middle. So that’s how it became the NES.”
Masayuki went on to discuss Atari – which had created a negative images of games – and how Nintendo wanted to go in a different direction.
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Happy 30th birthday to the NES
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 6 Comments
The Nintendo Entertainment System is 30 years old today. In North America, the console launched on October 18, 1985.
There’s no question that the NES is a hugely important piece of gaming history. It’s what kicked off Nintendo’s line of consoles, and it also introduced some important franchises. I don’t think the Nintendo we know of today wouldn’t be the same without it!
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Famicom’s 32nd birthday is today
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Did you know that the Famicom launched in Japan 32 years ago? The console debuted back on July 15, 1983, and it later came overseas as the NES. It’s because of the Famicom that we received hits such as Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and more.
Do you guys have a favorite Famicom/NES game? Let us know in the comments below.
Fan fixes Star Tropics tracks 25 years later
Posted on 9 years ago by Kirara Koneko(@KiraraKoneko) in News, Videos | 3 Comments
Star Tropics was an NES game that was about a kid named Mike Jones who was searching an island for his lost archeologist uncle.
Now while playing the game on an emulator Brad Smith, an avid gamer has discovered that some of the music tracks file size were too large and that some of them had an extra zero written in the line of code. He has now created a patch for download which can correct the problem if you are also playing the game on an emulator.
Check out the video below to hear the tracks.
