Nintendo Famicom/NES
Nintendo Famicom/NES y el videojuego de consola moderno
- Date
- 1983 · confidence high
- Place
- Nintendo, Kyoto, Japan
- Credited to
- Masayuki Uemura and Nintendo (Hiroshi Yamauchi, Shigeru Miyamoto)
- People
- 👤 Masayuki Uemura1943–2021
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A cartridge console that revived the industry after the 1983 crash with licensing quality control and its own characters (Super Mario, Zelda). It defined the closed-platform model with royalties.
What it led to
- The licensed platform business model, copied by Sony and Microsoft
- Character franchises and the video game as narrative
- The Game Boy and handheld gaming
Built on
- Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)1966
- Microprocessor (Intel 4004)1971
- Space Invaders1978
- Atari 2600
- MOS 6502 microprocessor
Made possible
- PlayStation and 3D console gaming1994
- Game Boy
- Super Mario