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List of Nintendo Entertainment System games

This article is about the list of video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Family Computer (Famicom). For the list of video games for the Famicom Disk System, see List of Famicom Disk System games.

An NES cartridge (top) is taller than a typical Famicom cartridge

This is a list of games for the Japan-only Family Computer (Famicom) home video game console (1983) which was rebranded as the Nintendo Entertainment System in NTSC and PAL regions (1985 & 1986 respectively). Its launch games were Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Popeye. The final licensed game released is the PAL-exclusive The Lion King on May 25, 1995.

As was typical for consoles of its era, the Famicom utilized ROM cartridges as the primary method of game distribution;[1] measuring 3 inches (7.6 cm) high by 5.3 inches (13 cm) wide, each cartridge featured 60 pins, with two pins reserved for external sound chips.[2][3] For the console's North American release in 1985 as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo redesigned the cartridge to accommodate the console's front-loading, videocassette recorder-derived socket by nearly doubling its height and increasing its width by one centimeter (0.39 in).[4]: 108 [5] Referred to as "Game Paks", each NES cartridge sported an increased total of 72 pins, with two pins reserved for the CIC lockout chip and ten pins reserved for connections with the console's bottom expansion port; however, the two pins for external sound were removed and relocated to the expansion port instead.[3][4]: 367  Though the extra space of the NES cartridge was not utilized by most games, it enabled the inclusion of additional hardware expansions; in contrast, some copies of early NES games like Gyromite (1985) merely paired the printed circuit board of the game's Famicom version with an adapter to convert between the different pinouts.[4]: 108 [6]

Nintendo later released the Famicom Disk System (FDS) in Japan in 1986, intending to have developers distribute all future games on proprietary 2.8-inch (7.1 cm) floppy disks to avoid the cost and size limitations of cartridges; however, developers began re-releasing FDS games on cartridges as advancements in cartridge technology made them feasible again with the limitations of the floppy disks and their ecosystem apparent, pulling support for the FDS by the 1990s.[3]

There are a total of 1388[a] officially licensed games released for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Family Computer during their lifespans plus 4 official multicarts and 2 championship cartridges. Of these, 672 were released exclusively in Japan, 186 were released exclusively in North America, and 19 were released exclusively in PAL countries. Worldwide, 514 games were released.

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  2. ^ Cunningham, Andrew (July 15, 2013). "The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry". Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on December 2, 2017. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Bivens, Danny (October 26, 2011). "Famicom Disk System". Nintendo World Report. Nintendo's Expansion Ports. Archived from the original on June 19, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Altice, Nathan (2015). I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer/Entertainment System Platform. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-02877-6. Archived from the original on January 11, 2020. Retrieved January 6, 2024 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Packwood, Lewis (February 28, 2020). "NES Creator Reveals The "Shocking" Story Behind That Infamous Flap". Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  6. ^ Edwards, Benj (November 14, 2005). "How to Tell if a Copy of Gyromite has a Famicom Adapter in it". Vintage Computing and Gaming. Retrieved October 20, 2008.


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