NES Game Manuals (Pick & Choose)

Description: The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan on 15 July 1983 as the Family Computer (Famicom). It was then released in American test markets on 18 October 1985 as the redesigned NES, and fully launched in the United States the following year. The NES was distributed in Europe, Australia, and parts of Asia throughout the 1980s under various names. As a third generation console, it primarily competed with Sega's Master System and the Atari 2600.It was designed by Masayuki Uemura at the behest of Nintendo's president Hiroshi Yamauchi, who called for a simple, cheap console that could run arcade games on cartridges. The controller design was reused from Nintendo's portable Game & Watch hardware. Nintendo released several add-ons, such as the NES Zapper light gun for shooting games like Duck Hunt.The NES is regarded as one of the most influential consoles of all time. It helped revitalise the American gaming industry following the video game crash of 1983, and pioneered a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers to produce and distribute games. The NES features several groundbreaking games, such as the 1985 platform game Super Mario Bros. and the 1986 action-adventure games The Legend of Zelda and Metroid, which became long-running franchises. While the NES dominated Japanese and American markets, it saw less success in Europe, where microcomputers were prevelant. With 61.91 million units sold, the NES remains one of the best-selling consoles of all time. It was succeeded in 1990 by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. In 2011, IGN named the NES the greatest video game console of all time. History BackgroundOriginal design for the NES as created by Masayuki Yukawa.The video game industry experienced rapid growth and popularity from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, marked by the golden age of arcade games and the second generation of consoles. Games like Space Invaders (1978) became a phenomenon across arcades worldwide, while home consoles such as the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision gained footholds in the American market. Many companies emerged to capitalise on the growing industry, including Nintendo. Following their global success with Donkey Kong (1981), Nintendo sought to create a cartridge-based console called the Family Computer, or Famicom.Hiroshi Yamauchi, who had served as Nintendo's president since 1949, realised that technological breakthroughs in the electronics industry meant that electronics could be incorporated into entertainment products at decreasing prices. Companies such as Atari and Magnavox were already selling gaming devices for use with television sets. Yamauchi negotiated a license with Magnavox to sell its game console, the Magnavox Odyssey. After hiring several Sharp Electronics employees, Nintendo launched the Color TV-Game 6 in Japan, followed by the handheld Game & Watch series. Yamauchi split Nintendo into separate research and development divisions, he appointed Masayuki Uemura as head of Nintendo Research & Development 2, a division that focused solely on hardware.The console's hardware was largely based on arcade video games, particularly the hardware for Namco's Galaxian (1979) and Nintendo's Donkey Kong, with the goal of matching their powerful sprite and scrolling capabilities in a home system. Original plans called for an advanced 16-bit system as a full-fledged computer with a keyboard and floppy disk drive, but Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi rejected this in favor of a cheaper, more conventional, cartridge-based game console as he believed that advanced features such as keyboards and disks were intimidating to non-technophiles. A test model was constructed in October 1982 to verify the functionality of the hardware, and work began on programming tools. Because 65xx CPUs had not been manufactured or sold in Japan by that time, no cross-development software was available and it had to be developed from scratch. Early Famicom games were written on a NEC PC-8001 computer. LEDs on a grid were used with a digitizer to design graphics as no such software design tools existed at that time.The codename for the project was "GameCom", but Masayuki Uemura's wife proposed the name "Famicom", arguing that "In Japan, 'pasokon' is used to mean a personal computer, but it is neither a home nor personal computer. Perhaps we could say it is a family computer." Meanwhile, Hiroshi Yamauchi decided that the console should use a red and white theme after seeing a billboard for DX Antenna (a Japanese antenna manufacturer) which used those colors. I hope you enjoy a little video game history to check into while purchasing manuals. Please check out my other items and my other site under the same name "Raynefire22" on Whatnot.com!!!!!!!!

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