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A Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console with controller and several game cartridges, including Final Fantasy.
Nintendo Entertainment System The original Nintendo video game system with cartridges.

Nintendo console

video game console
Also known as: Famicom, NES, Nintendo Entertainment System
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Nintendo console, groundbreaking eight-bit video game console created by Japanese designer Uemura Masayuki. The Nintendo console, or Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), was released as the Family Computer or Famicom in Japan on July 15, 1983. The Famicom offered the ability to play popular arcade games such as Donkey Kong on a home television set and was extremely well received. The console’s success in Japan triggered American interest, and negotiations began in order to bring the...

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