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12 unusual facts about Nintendo Entertainment System


Al-mi'raj

In the original Nintendo Entertainment System version of Dragon Warrior III, however, it was marked as a "Horned Rabbit" and portrayed as a white rabbit with ruby eyes and a red horn.

Game Boy Sound System

The Game Boy Sound System (or GBS) for the Game Boy is akin to the sound system of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the difference being that GBS has a higher pitch than NES sound format.

Haywood Jeffires

1991 Nintendo Entertainment System console game, Tecmo Super Bowl, incorrectly listed Jeffires' name as "Jeffries".

Legend of the Galactic Heroes release history

Game(Family Computer) Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars by KEMCO

Michael Andretti's World GP

Michael Andretti's World GP (known in Japan as Nakajima Satoru: F-1 Hero) is a video game developed by Human Entertainment released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990.

Mooster Records

In 2013, Mooster Records will expand to include a podcast titled "NSFradio" which will focus on Nintendo Entertainment System music.

NES Sound Format

NES Sound Format (NSF or .nsf) is the filename extension of the audio file format originally designated as NESM (Nintendo Entertainment System Music) by the inventor Kevin Horton.

Player Uno

Player Uno became popular for basing his gimmick, moveset, and attire around video games, specifically games for the NES and SNES consoles.

Similarity heuristic

For example, when Nintendo wished to launch its Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the United States, it did so in the middle of a video game depression; Atari had managed to make video games one of the least popular American pastimes.

Stupefied

Stupefied bases his gimmick, moveset, and attire around video games, more specifically games for the NES and SNES consoles.

The Incredible Crash Dummies

A video game also called The Incredible Crash Dummies was developed by Gray Matter Inc. and published by LJN, Ltd. in 1993 for Super Nintendo and the NES.

What in the World

A "blip"-like sound comparable to the sounds later made by Pac-man and the Nintendo Entertainment System pulses throughout the song, which, coupled with extremely rhythmic guitar solos, creates a frantic pace.


Atari

In 1983, Ray Kassar was forced to resign, and executives involved in the Famicom lost track of the negotiations, and the deal eventually died.

Chromelodeon

The following year, their first full length album was released, In the Year 20XX, which opens with a cover of "Wily's Castle" from the Nintendo game Mega Man 3, and is followed by 3 originals; the last track, "Eloquence is Dead," spans 13+ minutes.

Chuck Peddle

The most famous member of the 650x series was the 6502, developed in 1976, which was priced at 15 percent of the cost of an Intel 8080, and was subsequently used in many commercial products, including the Apple II, Commodore VIC-20, Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari 8-bit computers, Oric computers and BBC Micro from Acorn Computers.

Digger T. Rock: Legend of the Lost City

Digger T. Rock: Legend of the Lost City is an NES game developed by Rare and released by Milton Bradley in December 1990.

Double Player

Double Player is a set of two wireless controllers for the Nintendo Entertainment System created by Acclaim.

Era Online

The game displays 2D graphics much like that of the Nintendo Entertainment System's Zelda series and is fairly limited in terms of animations and effects.

Game Boy Advance SP

Six special editions have also been released: a NES Classics model with the same color scheme as a classic NES controller (and designed to resemble a NES deck when closed), a SpongeBob SquarePants model, a Pikachu model, and a silver model with a tattoo design engraved on it, called the 'Tribal Edition'.

Gamestation

They also sell, and accept as part exchange, games and consoles from older generations, such as the Sega Master System, Mega Drive, Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation, although this practice looks set to cease due to Game disposing of old "retro" stock.

I Wanna Be the Guy

IWBTG is made up of several stages split into many screens, which are mostly pastiches of Nintendo Entertainment System games, such as Tetris, Ghosts'n Goblins, The Legend of Zelda, Castlevania, Kirby, Mega Man and Metroid.

Kevin Carvell

Then in 1989, in another chance happening, a video segment that Carvell and some of his friends produced while playing Nintendo's Double Dragon made the cut in the release of the tips and tricks video Score More Points Nintendo Blue.

Masami Kurumada

Saint Seiya videogames have been released for old consoles such as Famicom/NES, Game Boy and more recently for PlayStation 2, the latest released in 2011 for PlayStation 3, and a Saint Seiya Omega game for PSP was released in December 2012.

Mechagodzilla

The Shōwa Mechagodzilla appears in the video games Godzilla: Monster of Monsters for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Godzilla for the Game Boy, The American version of Super Godzilla for the Super Nintendo, Godzilla: Battle Legends for TurboDuo, Godzilla Generations for the Dreamcast and Godzilla Generations: Maximum Impact for the Dreamcast.

Mega Kid MK-1000

In its box is contained a Famicom cartridge containing several NES applications that work with the keyboard, such as crude word processors, keyboard exercises, mathematical games, G-BASIC and a handful of first generation NES games such as F-1 Race, Track & Field and "Jewel Tetris".

Mensch Computer

Much software originally written for other computer systems which use the 65816 or 6502 instruction sets (such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo, or Apple IIgs, among others) can be run on the Mensch Computer (either directly as binary object code or through reassembling the software source code), to the extent that such software does not rely on hardware configurations which differ from the Mensch Computer.

Multicart

Although most commonly associated with NES and SNES, multicarts, both authorized and unauthorized, have appeared for many cartridge-based systems, among them the Atari 2600, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Game Boy.

National Football League Properties

There have been several American football video games based on NFL teams created for various consoles over the years, from 10-Yard Fight and the Tecmo Bowl series for the NES to the more well known Madden series that have been released annually since 1988.

Nintendo Cereal System

The name of the cereal is based on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and represents two of the most popular games for the NES at the time: Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda.

Operation Secret Storm

Operation Secret Storm is an action-oriented NES game where you control a secret agent named George B. (which was seen by many as a caricature of then-President George H. W. Bush) as he fights the Iraqi army.

Parallax scrolling

These include most of the classic 8-bit systems (such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, the original Game Boy, and the TurboGrafx-16).

Picture Processing Unit

The PPU (Picture Processing Unit), more specifically known as Ricoh RP2C02 (NTSC version) / RP2C07 (PAL version), is the microprocessor in the Nintendo Entertainment System responsible for generating video signals from graphic data stored in memory.

Pulfrich effect

The videogame Orb-3D for the Nintendo Entertainment System used the effect (by having the player's ship always moving) and came packed with a pair of glasses.

Punch-Out!!

It has since spanned home consoles, including the Famicom and NES Punch-Out!! / Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, an SNES and Super Famicom sequel Super Punch-Out!!, and a Wii sequel Punch-Out!!.

Quarth

Besides the arcade version, there were also ports of the game to the MSX2 (with a built-in SCC chip), Famicom, and Game Boy—home releases used the Quarth name worldwide (with the exception of the Game Boy Color release in Europe of Konami GB Collection Vol. 2, where the game was renamed to the generic title Block Game for unknown reasons).

Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston

Stanley and the Search for Dr. Livingston (after "David Livingstone") is a relatively obscure Nintendo Entertainment System video game that appeared in one of the first 50 issues of Nintendo Power magazine.

The Adventures of Gilligan's Island

The Adventures of Gilligan's Island (known on the title screen simply as Gilligan's Island) is a single-player Nintendo Entertainment System video game by Bandai that is based on the 1960s sitcom of the same name.

Thyra

Asteroid 115 Thyra is named in her honour, as is one of the four playable characters in the Nintendo Entertainment System game Gauntlet II.

U-Force

The U-Force is a game controller made by Brøderbund for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Wonder Boy

This was the first of these modified ports (originally released in Japan as Takahashi-Meijin no Bōken Jima) for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Hudson Soft, a modified version of the first Wonder Boy in which the main character replaced with a caricature of real-life Japanese video game expert named Takahashi Meijin.

Wonder Boy in Monster Land

Jaleco released a modified port of the game to the Famicom, changing the graphics and character sprites so that it resembled the Chinese novel Journey to the West.

WonderSwan

Another reason for the WonderSwan's success in Japan was the fact that Bandai managed to get a deal with Square to port over the original Famicom Final Fantasy games with improved graphics and controls.