Its been a long wait for those who were fortunate enough to snag a pre-order of the awesome-looking Super Famicom New 3DS XL in Japan, which was first shown off in a Nintendo Direct in March of this ...

IGN's Jose Otero got a special package in the mail from overseas. Watch as he unboxes a special Japan-only New Nintendo 3DS styled to look like the Super Famicom.

Today, Japan saw the release of the most powerful gaming console on the market alongside what may well be the least. For about a tenth of the price of the PlayStation 4 Pro and probably even less of ...

In Japan, 5th October marks the release of the Super Famicom Classic Mini. Following the SNES Classic Edition / Mini last week, the “Sufami Mini” is now ready to buy! It too comes with 21 games, ...

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. One of the great joys of a new gadget ...

Without Nintendo's Famicom there would be no NES. And without the NES, chances are, the video game industry as we know it would never have existed. It's hard to appreciate history while you're living ...

Unboxing Japan's Famicom Classic Mini We open up the miniature Famicom Classic, Japan's version of the NES Classic Edition with a few key differences.

There have always been slight regional differences between consoles, but when the Nintendo Entertainment System hit store shelves in the fall of 1985 it had been stripped of nearly all the form and ...

Nintendo’s Famicom console launched in Japan on July 15, 1983. To commemorate the system’s 40th anniversary, why not play some of the best Famicom games? Here are Siliconera’s suggestions, whether you ...

Nintendo revealed today that it will stop manufacturing its Famicom (NES) and Super Famicom (SNES) consoles in Japan in September. Likewise, Nintendo will also stop its disk-rewriting services for the ...