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DEMONSTRATION UNIT This is a demonstration unit used in some stores selling the NES. It operates like a jukebox. Up to twelve cartridges can be inserted into the unit. Then, the game is selected by a "Game Select" button. At the rear of the system, a knob is used to select accorded playing time: 30 seconds, 3 minutes, 6 minutes or ... 120 minutes! null
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JNES http://www.jabosoft.com/jnes/ Windows Jnes is a NES emulator for win32 platforms that uses DirectX for it's hardware interface. It's emulation capabilities include graphics, sound, input devices, and emulating quite a few memory mapping boards found in most USA games and a few popular japanese ones.
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NESten http://tnse.zophar.net/NESten.htm Windows Excellent emulator for Windows
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NNNesterJ http://www.emulation9.com/nnnesterj/ Windows Maybe the best emulator for Windows
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Zophar's Domain http://www.zophar.net/nes.html Other platform Zophar's Domain has an excellent selection of NES emulators. Prepare to see a lot of them!
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FCE Ultra http://fceultra.sourceforge.net/ Multiplatform FCE Ultra is a portable NES/Famicom emulator for DOS, Linux and Windows
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RockNES http://rocknes.kinox.org/ Multiplatform Excellent emulator for Windows, DOS, Linux & MacOS
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|tsr's NES archive http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/ Excellent site. A must see if you are curious about the NES
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Internet NES Database http://dod.hpi.net/ivgdb/ NES software database. Useful.
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NES Land http://www.nesland.vgnetworks.com/ The only Australian based NES site!
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NesDev http://nesdev.parodius.com A very good lis of links, especially hardware & technical related links.
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NESworld.com http://nesworld.parodius.com/ A lot of interesting ingo here
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The NES files http://www.nesfiles.com/ A large Game selection, with pictures, codes, docs, and more
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TheOldComputer.com http://www.theoldcomputer.com/ This excellent site has NES roms and a huge NES game boxes archive
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www.nesplayer.com http://www.nesplayer.com/ A lot of info here. Among them : game reviews...
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First NES commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6pW2IYOivA Length: 31s
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Bartimeus (USA,North America,Earth, Milky Way Galaxy, The Universe) Thursday 13rd April 2017 I am an Avid Retro game collector as besides my Atari 2600 This is my all-time favorite system!
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Thomas (United States) Wednesday 6th July 2016 I had NES.
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Issac Saturday 1st October 2011 I want one of these so bad. If your afraid of buying a junky NES, i''ll point out theres YOBO CLONE NES on 80stees.com
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Chulang Searles (Barbados) Saturday 11th September 2010 Nintendo 8 bit had dominate the market and it killed Atari with they own licence game, Tetus, the game Atari licience Nintendo. It remain a market leader until Saga brought out It Genesis(Mega drive in the UK). Now it''s in the lead with with Wii
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Wally (US) Wednesday 26th May 2010 Since it wouldn''t let me add some info on the emulator page, I would like to point out an emulator not listed on this site. It is called NESTOPIA and it lives up to its name. Probably the most compatible NES Emulator for windows and certainly the most accurate in timing. http://nestopia.sourceforge.net/
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bluekatt (netherlands) Sunday 17th September 2006 the nes or famicom had a ricoh8 bit custom 6502 derivative cpu and restrictive dma on die\ the famicom had the longest production life of any console ever to this day\ from 1983 to 2004 in japan\ it shifted 60 million units in its life time
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chuton (USA) Friday 2nd June 2006 I've played the system since 5 years old. I have 2 of the systems and one of the newer top loader systems (which is very rare BTW) I've gotten them all for free over the years. I also have an SNES but have never played it.
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Interested (bristol ,uk) Friday 6th May 2005 I have the first nintendo with games all boxed does any one have a clue about the value?
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frask (Neptune) Friday 8th April 2005 My favorite Nintendo games were Duck Hunt and of course, Zelda
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qwerty (earth) Friday 25th March 2005 Hey Dan, we live on the same planet!!!\ It's a small universe, isin't it?\ well, I have my own NES and have loads of fun with it. It's by far one of the best of the gameing systems I know. what else can I say? qwerty
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Richard (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) Thursday 30th December 2004 Old gamer or new gamer, you gotta love this machine. This is what turned me into a technophile freak at the nice age of four.
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Mike (florida) Sunday 15th June 2003 Mike Tyson's Punchout is the best game ever. I spent countless hours fighting Soda Popinski and Super Mach Man. How many time have i heard "Mac" giving Little Joe inspiration to get the job done
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The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was released in Japan in 1983 under the name Famicom. This was short for Family Computer. Hundreds of games were produced for the system and it sold very well.

It had one of the most unique accessories too; R.O.B (Robotic Operating Buddy). It was controlled by flashes from the screen generated by the game itself. It couldn't do much except move around some discs from one platform to another. It was popular because it was something different.

The NES was home to some of the biggest franchises in video game history and there are still games being made based on characters first seen on the NES. Characters like Mario (who technically was first seen in the Arcades in Donkey-Kong game, though he was called then only "jumpman"), Samus (Metroid), and Link.

Other companies like Sega (Master System) and Atari (Atari 7800) tried to get a piece of the pie with their own systems but neither of them were able to come anywhere near the sales figures of the Nintendo. There is no doubt that the NES was the most popular 8-bit gaming system.

In the early '90s Nintendo redesigned the NES. It was top-loading design and the controllers looked alot like SNES controller except with only 2 buttons. The Famicom (japanese version of the NES) had the longest production life of any console ever to this day from 1983 to 2004 in Japan. It shifted 60 million units in its life time!

A bunch of accessories were available for the NES & Famicom, including : lightgun, ROB the robot, disk drives, BASIC keyboard, dancing mat, power glove, additional controllers and much more...