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When did Nintendo stop making NES games?

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Licensed production of games for the NES continued into the 1990s and ended in 1994, by which time the system had a library of more than 1,000 titles. The console had already begun to lose prominence as newer 16-bit systems, including the Sega Genesis and Nintendo’s Super Nintendo Entertainment System, entered the market.