Is a retro must have!

The Nintendo Family Computer (or Famicom for short) is a video game console made by Nintendo and sold in Japan starting in 1983. The Nintendo Entertainment System, which Nintendo sold outside Japan a couple years later, is nearly identical in behavior with a few changes in the cords, controllers, system look. While the Famicom was made to look friendly and well matched for a Japanese household with bright colors, the NES was made to look like the "future" to get it into the homes of Americans who had been burned by the crash of the second-generation consoles in 1983-1984. Differences from NES Input: -On the original Famicom, the controller 2 has no Select and Start buttons but it has a microphone. It can be used on some games like Zelda. -There is a 15-pin expansion port. The light gun and other specialty controllers connect to this instead. -It can be connected with the Famicom Disk System and read games from a special Floopy Disk Output: -The Famicom had only RF output, not the yellow and red AV output seen on the side of the front-loading NES. - The Famicom is NTSC The Famicom audio path goes through the cassette, allowing boards to mix the console's audio with that from a synthesizer chip. Other: Since the Famicom was sold mostly in Japan. All the compatible games are in japannese, but there are a lot of games that can be played anyways.Read full review

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