Nintendo’s Family Computer, or Famicom, turns 30 today! (credit: Evan-Amos ) Update, December 9, 2021: Masayuki Uemura, the lead architect for both the Famicom and Super Famicom, passed away on December 6th at the age of 78. Uemura worked at Nintendo from 1971 to 2004 and oversaw notable accessories like the Famicom Disk System plus […]
From the front, there’s little to distinguish this box from the millions of others Nintendo has produced for Super Mario Bros. For a while now, we’ve watched as early sealed copies of Super Mario Bros. have commanded six-figure prices at auction, starting with a $100,000 copy sold in 2019 and continuing through a $140,000 sale […]
Created and led by Justin Wolfson, edited by Chris Jones. Click here to transcript. Now Nintendo is a family name, the most gaming equivalent of a significant manufacturer like Disney. Nevertheless, it was not always the way. Ars Technica’s most current War Stories movie examines the early days of Nintendo’s 80s invasion of American beaches […]