Nintendo Entertainment System
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The Nintendo Entertainment
system (NES) was hugely popular, its sucess must be largley due to
the huge number of quality games that were released on the system.
The first games in the Zelda series were released along with classic
arcade conversions such as Gauntlet and double dragon. Not to mention
the ever popular Mario 1, 2 and 3.
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Famicom
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Japan 1983
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Released in several different
designs this is one of the newer ones. Also released as a top loader
version in Japan and some counties such as Australia. There are also
a lot of pirate versions around.
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NES
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USA 1986
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NES
Uses larger carts than the Japanese version. Suffers badly from dust
and a design fault which means its difficult to get older systems
to work.
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Pirate Version
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1984 - Present
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There are loads of pirate
versions of the NES about this is just 1 of them. Pirate systems are
still being made with versions such as the Mega Joy which has games
built in.
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Famicom Disk
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1986 |
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Famicom Disk System :The
system was a disk drive for the Famicom attached through the cartridge
port. Sold over 4 million in japan but never released in Europe due
to the easy with which software was pirated.
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Specs
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CPU
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6508 (using a custom Motorola 6502 class), 1.79 Mhz
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MEMORY
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Maim RAM: 2 KB
Video RAM: 2 KB
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GRAPHICS
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Display: 256x240
Colors: 52
Colors on Screen: 16
Max Sprites: 64
Max Sprites / Line: 8
Sprite Size: 8x8 or 8x16
icture Scroll Horizontal / Vertical
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Accessories
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Mattel designed the
Power Glove for the NES
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NES licensee, designed
the package. It includes a mat with eight control buttons on it and
the Athletic World game cartridge.
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Shop unit which switched
between a selection of games.
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R.O.B.
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ROB is a gray plastic
robot that is one foot high. When the television screen is turned
on, a chip is powered in its head causing it to move. ROB's actions
(like picking up a stack of chips) activate movement on-screen.
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Satellite
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NES Satellite. This
peripheral enabled four players to play a single game at the same
time. Four joypads can be plugged in to this unit.
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NES manual
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Save the zip file to your PC and then use windows to extract the files.
Get the full user manual in English. Sorry, no other languages
available at the moment.
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