Back in the 1980s, your options for writing your own code and games were rather more limited than today. This also mostly depended on what home computer you could get your hands on, which was a ...

It's a cart for Famicom BASIC. The behaviour is that upon turning on the Famicom, there is nothing on the screen for about 1-2 seconds, and then solid grey with buzzing in the audio. BTW, pulling ...

The latest episode of Masahiro Sakurai’s YouTube channel about making games actually involves him showing how Family BASIC worked. This was a Famicom peripheral and tool for creation, and Sakurai ...

Nintendo's original 8-bit home console, the Famicom, turned 30 years old last week. It's a milestone that gamers outside of Japan have recognized, but, for us, it's mostly just serving as a reminder ...

If there’s one certainty in life, it is that Nintendo Famicom and similar NES clone consoles are quite literally everywhere. What’s less expected is that they were used for a half-serious attempt at ...