May is Japan's slow month, where the entire country takes a week long vacation that's known commonly as "Golden Week." Despite the slow down, Nintendo will still be giving players some quality ...

The 8BitDo 108 Mechanical Keyboard opens for pre-order in both NES and Famicom-themed ... Retro 108 also supports swappable PCBs to allow for a full replacement of all the underlying ...

Things turned out fine, though, as a September announcement led to a full Japanese release, complete with its own original Famicom design, tiny controllers, and a set of 30 games, ...

Watch on YouTube. Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube 826k. We've already covered a lot about the history and provenance of the Famicom Detective Club remakes in our review for The Missing Heir ...

There’s nothing about the art, animation, voice work, or music of Nintendo’s new Famicom Detective Club games that betray their origin as a pair of Japan-exclusive Family Computer Disk System ...

Retro. Meet the portable Famicom that looks like an old-school Walkman A modder converted a Famicom (the Japanese version of the NES) into a handheld console complete with a screen and lots of style.

The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in 1985, but its Japanese counterpart, the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for short, came out July 15, 1983, meaning it’ll turn 30 soon.

The interview is full of fascinating insights into the creation of the Famicom ... and gold scheme was further cemented by the look of a set-top TV antenna released by DX Antenna.

Take it from us, insomnia is no joke. But the wee hours can have a great effect on creativity, and if you’ve got a project in mind, doing that is way better than just sitting around, zoning o… ...

An uber-rare prototype of the Super Famicom - the Japanese console that would eventually become known as the Super NES worldwide - just hit an online auction site, and it's already garnered ...