Nintendo's Emio - The Smiling Man marks its first M-rated game, a dark departure from the company's family-friendly reputation. Fans of the Famicom Detective Club series will see a revival with a ...

The best Famicom games to play on modern systems. The first stop for most to check out some Famicom games in 2023 is probably Nintendo Switch Online.It’s handy, and players can easily download ...

If reputation and influence are the standard by which we judge a game's legacy (and, really, they're not a bad metric), Super Mario Bros. deserves to go down in history not only as the most ...

Given what we now know about add-on hardware for games consoles, the very concept of the Famicom Disk System seems hopelessly flawed. Since this Japan-only system hit the market in 1986 we’ve ...

Famicom Wars is the first of our three examples, as this game was the precursor to what we know as the Advance Wars franchise today – we, of course, didn't get one of its installments localized ...

Until now, where Emio has not only revived the creation of new Famicom Detective Club games, but has also brought back another bit of the series’ history: it’s rated M. Nintendo has had some M ...

The Famicom’s eventual American success can be chalked up to a number of factors. The draw of Super Mario Bros. as a pack-in game, along with the appeal of the Zapper light gun peripheral in the ...

The Family Computer — or Famicom for short — was a revolutionary product; born out of Nintendo’s desire to capitalize on its successful arcade business, it would go on to achieve the kind of ...

February 2004: Nintendo launches a series of 30 Game Boy Advance cartridges, the Famicom Mini line, packaging Famicom classics in tiny reproductions of their original boxes.

'Famicom Detective Club' sees the family-friendly company go retro in an eerie page-turner unlike anything since the Eighties. With 'Emio – The Smiling Man,' Nintendo Goes Full Serial Killer ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. You expect, and will find, old games for the Famicom where you play as a soldier. Or a pilot. Or an athlete. What you don't expect, but what you ...