The Nintendo Entertainment System (known as the Family Computer, or Famicon in most of Asia) was Nintendo's entrance to the home console market. It was released in 1983 in Japan, and 1984 in the rest of the world.
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Why did you have to blow into an NES cartridge to make it work?
Did doing this actually help at all? If so, how?
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Why is it needed to hold reset when powering off the NES?
Why are these directions required? Do some games actually run instructions that would be interrupted if the player just hits the power button?
Note I'm not looking for speculation, but rather a technical distinction between what would happen when…
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What is the average battery life of an NES cartridge?
How many years does an NES cartridge battery last?
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Why doesn't Duck Hunt work on plasma or LCD screens?
I'm told that the original Duck Hunt (NES) works fine on all CRT screens, but fails to register successful hits on a plasma or LCD screen. Why is this? Is there a fix for it?
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How to find a specific NES pirate, unlicensed or bootleg game information?
As a kid, I've played a lot of NES. In my country, unlicensed games and famiclones were pretty frequent (boosted by the market reserve strategy to produce every component in-house), and games with generic names like Puzzle or F-15 Civil War got…
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Why do some versions of Legend of Zelda on the NES have the "hold reset" caution screen, and some don't?
I've played Legend of Zelda many times on many different NESes and copies of the game, and something I've noticed is that some versions of the game have the "caution" on the death screen to hold down reset while powering off, while some do…
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Why do older generations games have a common look and feel by console?
I’ve been getting into retro gaming in the last few years (the options for emulators are just so cheap and good) and I’ve noticed more and more that there is a common “look and feel” to games released on the same console in older generations. With…
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How does the NES Zapper work?
You may have played NES Console games when you were younger -- I know I did. I remember playing Duck Hunt, for one:
(source: mentalfloss.com)
Duck Hunt came with a peripheral called the NES Zapper:
How does it work? How did the NES, which was far…
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StarTropics NES - Chapter 4 - Frequency Code?
In the NES Game, StarTropics, in Chapter 4 - right after you escape the whale with Baboo, Nav-Com tells you to "Input Frequency!!":
There does not seem to be any indication in the game for what the frequency should be.
The only clues come from…
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Counterfeit NES/SNES Games-how to know if it's fake?
The other day, i plugged in a copy of Mortal Kombat 3, and the console I was using was one of the new dual consoles(nes+snes games). I got a message at the start that said something about pirated games. How can I know if I bought say Earthbound at a…
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Is it possible to use the second controller to control the ducks in duckhunt?
Looking for a definitive answer, this is a bit of a gentleman's bet at the heart of it, but I would love an authoritative answer.
Is it possible to use the second controller to control the ducks in duckhunt?
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Will the NES Zapper light gun work on a CRT HDTV?
The NES zapper doesn't work on LCD TVs, but my friend has a Samsung CRT HDTV and was wondering if it would work on that type of TV. Does anyone know?
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How can I replace the NES cartridge battery?
How does one replace the NES cartridge battery?
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How can I identify a Mario Bros character (Big gray stone that falls)
I was looking for images of this and can't find because I'm lacking a term.
I would like to know the name (or how would you would call) a character from (that I know of) from the old Mario's (NES and such).
I'm talking about the big grey rock with a…
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Was there anything different past beating The Legend of Zelda twice?
In the original Zelda things were wildly different on your second playthough. I always wanted to but never managed to keep a NES/Zelda cartridge/battery long enough to go far enough past a 2nd playthough to look for more cool changes.
Did I miss…
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