Posts Tagged ‘NES’

GameDaily’s Top 25 Underrated Nintendo Games

From Polarium to Sin and Punishment, here is GameDaily’s top 25 countdown of underrated Nintendo games (not limited to first-party games, plenty of third-party titles are included in the list).
http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/galleries/top-25-underrated-nintendo-games/

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The Nintendo M82: A Rare NES Demo Unit

The Nintendo M82, or M82 Game Selectable Working Product Display, was used to demo NES games in stores. It could hold up to 12 different games, with their labels visible through the window on the front of the unit. You could set a time limit for how long a person could [...]

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Wii Sports Tops Sales of Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros. sold 40.24 million units over the course of the NES’ lifetime, and was considered the best-selling video game of all-time. Was. Wii Sports which is bundled with every Wii console sold (unless you buy one from Japan or Korea) has sold a total of 41.33 million copies. It wasn’t only because the [...]

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Inside Nintendo’s Classic Game Console

Read this “gaming slideshow” from MSN Tech & Gadgets about the Famicom, the Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System. The Famicom, also known as the Family Computer was released in 1983 and retailed for approximately $63 USD. Two years later the NES was released Stateside and revived the video game industry which had just [...]

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