Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System/ Famicon (Abbreviated as NES) is a 8-bit console released by Nintendo and was created in japan in 1983 and in North America in 1985, it revolutionized gaming forever.

History
After the game crash of '83, it was hard to produce video games or any games at all, in Japan, the NES, or as known in Japan as the Famicon, Nintendo had a plan to carry the Famicon over to America, but it was hard since the game crash begun, so Nintendo designed the NES into a VCR, it was released in the Fall of 1985 and by the holiday season of that year, it exploded in popularity. By The Beginning, Nintendo allowed third party's to step in and make games, company's like Namco and Capcom they made new games or re-released there arcade games, further in the life, Nintendo added more like Konami, LJN, Square, Hudson Soft etc, franchises like Mario, Mega Man and Castlevania first appeared on the NES.

Accessories like the NES zapper released with the console to.

And Rob being from the start, he had his own 2 games and that's it.

The Packaging for NES games changed over the life span, early NES games used the black box design, where the sprites of the game where blocked by solid black with the "series" logo in the corner, the title of the game and the Nintendo logo, games like Kid Icarus and Metroid used a silver type box, later on Nintendo allowed companies to have there own art, big or not.

By the time when the SNES came out, Nintendo opted for a Red label at the top with "Nintendo Entertainment System", Wario's Woods used a Rating, "WW" was the only NES game to have a ESRB rating.

Later Life
By the 90's, The NES was getting old, gaming was transitioning into the 16-bit era, and gaming was getting bigger and better, but Nintendo still made games and even a second model of the console, in 1993, Nintendo released the NES 2, or the top-loader (Control Deck) (New Style), it was similar to a SNES, with a controller similar to it, people dub it as the "Dog-Bone", the console was also a successe but without AV cable, in japan the console was named with the AV name, but in north America, no AV cable, people called Nintendo to ask why there was no Av in them, in response, Nintendo allowed consumers to give them there Nes and put in a AV put cable, Now-in days, Nintendo doesn't have fixes for there older consoles, but if you want, you can call up a professional or buy a japan new style.

The games that released during 93-94 where mostly puzzle games like "Tetris 2" "Wario's Woods" an much more, but some platformers like "Kirby's Adventure" released on the console to, that wasn't until December 1st, 1994 when Wario's Woods released, marking it the last first party game for the NES, but technical support for both the NES an SNES where available until 2007, only in Japan though.

Similar Consoles
Due to the Success of the NES, consoles that where similar popped up, most famously by the Master System, the controller design was similar and the console design, while different was inspired by it, The Master System had mode-rent success in North America but countries like Brazil, it exploded in popularity and having and longer life over there, then North America.

NES Classic
Around December 2016, Nintendo released a smaller, compact version of the NES, called the NES classic, it featured 30 games in the console and had other features like saving, changing the boarder and video style, it quickly became popular and spawned in a sequel called "The SNES Classic" in 2017.

Nintendo Switch Online
Around 2018, Nintendo offered to Nintendo Switch Online Members free NES games, monthly they added new NES games, first party and third party games released, this also had a "SNES" version where SNES games where released monthly on that to.

Trivia

 * The Console was surpassed by the Nintendo Switch in terms of sales.
 * The Famicon's "A" and "B" buttons were squares until later they where circles.
 * On Famicon controllers, specifically the second one, there was a microphone on it, games like The Legend Of Zelda utilized it.
 * The Cartridge designs are different between country's, North America had a Grey and upward design, while Japan had coloured cart's with it being vertical.