Before the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, there was the Family Computer, or Famicom. Much like the NES Classic Edition in the West, Nintendo has released a similar micro console in Japan ...

Nintendo fans in its home country are getting their own teensy retro console, as well. Today, Mario's creator has revealed the mini Famicom, a shrunken version of the original NES the company released ...

TOKYO--Due to popular demand from nostalgic fans and to sales continuing to hit the weekly top 20s, Nintendo has announced it will release a third series in its Famicom Mini line of games for the Game ...

With the NES Classic Edition sold out pretty much everywhere, the Japanese counterpart the Famicom Mini is equally hard to come by. As I live in Tokyo, I’ve done my best to source my own Famicom Mini ...

Sure, you might think you’re the most hip, cool, finger-on-the-pulse-of-gaming kinda guy having pre-ordered Nintendo’s upcoming emulation box, the Nintendo Classic Mini NES. But after you’ve invited ...

We learned yesterday that Nintendo is discontinuing their plug-and-play NES Classic Edition device in North America. The company also announced that Japan will temporarily halt production of the ...

Japanese gamers wondering why the rest of the world gets all of the fun of the NES Classic Edition in November can rest easy —Nintendo just announced a similar retro console based on the Famicom, the ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Last month, pre-orders for the Super Famicom Mini drew long lines at cities across Japan. Today the console went on sale. Lines were much shorter, but ...

We’ve all seen how the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition has been selling out around the world, and Nintendo announced that the Mini Famicom has already sold 262,961 units in Japan ...

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 ...

In case you haven't heard, Nintendo revealed the Super NES Classic today, the 16-bit follow-up to the highly sought-after NES Classic. True to form, Nintendo announced the Super Famicom Mini for Japan ...

To those unfamiliar with gaming history, Nintendo actually had two very different versions of its "Nintendo Entertainment System", depending on which side of the globe you lived in. In Japan and ...