Number 100: Gradius II - Number 1: Dragon Quest III To commemorate the Famicom's 20th anniversary, Famitsu released a special DVD celebr...

Baseball & Famista '94 Baseball (Yakyuu) has had a long history in Japan. Imported from the United States before World War II, Japan...

I have often read that Nintendo, as of the Nintendo Entertainment System and everything thereafter, made all cartridges for its systems and ...

Taiwan may or may not have been the birthplace of commercial video game piracy, but it certainly has a strong claim to have been its nursery...

Modifying the RF-Only Famicom to output separate video and audio is nothing new, people have been doing it since the 1980s.  But many mods I...

Courtesy of Wikipedia (taken by Evan Amos) When Nintendo released its first console, the Famicom, the full name of the system was the Ninten...

When Nintendo and its authorized third parties stopped releasing new games for the NES and Famicom in 1993 and 1994, respectively, the estab...

There have been several hardware devices released over the past four decades which play NES and Famicom games.  Any regular reader of this b...

We tend to think that Nintendo consoles first entered the online arena with the GameCube, its Modem and Broadband Adapters and Phantasy Star...

In my last blog entry, I announced the creation of an evolving database of NES ROM headers, focused on cartridge accuracy.  However, while ...

NES and Famicom emulation has been around for over twenty-five years.  In that time, the internal hardware has become very well documented. ...

Golf is popular in most parts of the world with any concentration of wealth.  It is rather popular in Japan, at least for those who can af...

When it comes to the NES, everybody at one point or another has emulated the NES.  NES emulation has been around for a long time and has imp...

Nintendo's latest efforts to "cash in" on its retro properties, the NES Classic Edition and the SNES Classic Edition, have gon...

In today's blog entry I will review three inexpensive products for your retro gaming consoles.  If you are interested in getting HDMI-on...

Audio balance levels in the NES and Famicom can cause some consternation and official hardware is not always consistent.  Here I will discus...

In the United States and Europe, if you wanted to save a game on your NES, you generally had two options.  If the game supported password sa...

The Famicom was constructed with a feature which was not available to the NES.  The Famicom always sent its internal audio to the cartridge ...

Nintendo tried to get its 8-bit system into homes across the world.  It was most successful in Japan, the United States and Canada.  But it...

Prior to the NES, most controllers had a joystick and one or two buttons.  The Atari joystick was wired in parallel, where one wire correspo...