TOKYO--The Level X game exhibition and Famicom retrospective that opens in Tokyo on December 4 will showcase just how far video games have come since Nintendo launched its first console 20 years ago.

40 years ago the videogame industry started to undergo a seismic shift, but it would take over two years for almost anybody in North America to realize it. On July 15, 1983, while the games industry ...

Thank you for being you. When you look at the video game industry right now, you can’t possibly see it “going out of business,” barring something explosive or implosive happening. After all, AAA ...

Nintendo goes with a blast from the past in their latest ad for Nintendo Classic Mini: Famicom, which shows a throwback to one of their older commercials for the original Famicom in 1983. [Thanks, ...

If you’ve ever seen an original Famicom cartridge, you probably wondered what those little holes on the top edge were. Were they ventilation holes? Part of the manufacturing process? Something to put ...

Did you know that Atari, at the height of their power in the American video game industry, nearly licensed the Famicom technology from Nintendo? Atari Museum has a fascinating memo describing a 1983 ...

Better recognized as the Nintendo Entertainment System, the system first launched in Japan as the Family Computer (Famicom) in July 1983 (two years ahead of its North American debut as the NES) and ...