The Famicom, Nintendo's first console, was released 40 years ago this week. ... while the games industry was collapsing in the U.S., Nintendo released the Family Computer, or Famicom, in Japan.

The Nintendo Entertainment System and the Family Computer (or "Famicom") are technically the same console, capable of playing the same games--aside from regional exclusives and that sort of thing.

There’s nothing about the art, animation, voice work, or music of Nintendo’s new Famicom Detective Club games that betray their origin as a pair of Japan-exclusive Family Computer Disk System ...

Swedish designer and craftsman Love Hultén transforms existing gaming hardware into dreamlike pieces of functional retrofuturist art. His latest work, the FC-PVM, combines a Japanese Famicom ...

The end is nigh for the Japanese Nintendo Classic Mini Family Computer and the Nintendo Classic Mini Super Famicom. Once Nintendo Japan runs out of parts, it will stop accepting the consoles for ...

Famicom Jump II: Saikyo no Shichinin Rokudenashi Blues The Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer Weekly Shonen Jump 50th Anniversary Commemoration Version will release in Japan on July 7, 2018.

With all the supply issues of the SNES Classic Edition in the U.S. and Europe, its Japanese cousin the Super Famicom Mini is more widely available here and is a lovely little piece of gaming hardware.