Development and Japanese release
Following a series of arcade game successes in the early 1980s, Nintendo made plans to create a cartridge-based console called the Family Computer, or Famicom.

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Configurations
Although the Japanese Famicom, North American and European NES versions included essentially the same hardware, there were certain key differences among the systems.
The original Japanese

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Game Pak
The NES uses a 72-pin design, as compared with 60 pins on the Famicom. To reduce costs and

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The NES was released two years after the video game crash of 1983, when many retailers and adult consumers regarded electronic games as a passing fad, so many believed at first that the NES would soon fade. Before the NES and Famicom, Nintendo was known as a

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• History of Nintendo
• Nintendo hard
• Nintendo World Championships

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• Famicom - Nintendo’s Family Computer (video). FamicomDojo.TV. March 18, 2015. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
• "Nintendo Entertainment System". Nintendo. Archived from the original

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By 1988, industry observers stated that the NES's popularity had grown so quickly that the market for Nintendo cartridges was larger than that for all home computer software. Compute! reported in 1989 that Nintendo had sold seven million NES systems in 1988 alone,

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