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All the way back in 1986, Nintendo released one of its coolest devices ever. And you've likely never heard of it. The Famicom Disk System was an add-on to the Famicom, which was the Japanese version ...

As time marches on inexorably - week after week, year after year - it should come as no surprise that The Legend of Zelda is 33 years old today. No, not the cartridge version - that wouldn't make an ...

The Gaming Historian (aka Norman Caruso) is back with ever more luscious hair to get us up to speed with the ill-fated Famicom Disk System. Nintendo considered the Disk System the future of the ...

There’s nothing about the art, animation, voice work, or music of Nintendo’s new Famicom Detective Club games that betray their origin as a pair of Japan-exclusive Family Computer Disk System ...

Leaked documents from Sony's camp have confirmed the existence of PlayStation Neo, a sort of half-step that bumps up the "base" PS4's processor speed, memory, and graphics hardware while remaining ...

The latter was a colorful add-on that allowed Nintendo's home console to play proprietary floppy disks, called "Disk Cards." Unlike traditional cartridges, these could be rewritten using store-based ...

The Legend of Zelda may have had its official 30th anniversary on Feb. 21, but that’s not stopping Nintendo of Japan from spending six weeks soaking in the nostalgia of the classic game. This week, ...

Without Nintendo's Famicom there would be no NES. And without the NES, chances are, the video game industry as we know it would never have existed. It's hard to appreciate history while you're living ...

On August 10th, Nintendo released the third batch of games in the Famicom Mini series for the Game Boy Advance in Japan. Volume number three, like Volume 2 (released on May 21st) and Volume 1 ...