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Visual novels aren’t exactly the most popular game genre here in the United States, which is why it was such a surprise when Nintendo announced that the two Famicom Detective Club games were coming to ...

More than 30 years after their original releases in 1988 and 1989, both Famicom Detective Club games have received modern remakes on Nintendo Switch. I had never played either game before, but I went ...

Nintendo's original 8-bit home console, the Famicom, turned 30 years old last week. It's a milestone that gamers outside of Japan have recognized, but, for us, it's mostly just serving as a reminder ...

City Connection is bringing the cult classic Hoshi wo Miru Hito, a Famicom game from the late 1980s, to Nintendo Switch this summer. Though the game widely recognized for some of its austere mechanics ...

If there aren't enough games to your liking on the Nintendo DS Lite, and you'd rather have some retro Famicom pleasure instead, you really need Cyber Gadget's Cyber Familator Lite. Plug the Familator ...

TOKYO--Nintendo announced today that it will release a new Game Boy Advance SP model modeled after the company's Famicom console, known in American as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It will ...

TOKYO--The Level X game exhibition and Famicom retrospective that opens in Tokyo on December 4 will showcase just how far video games have come since Nintendo launched its first console 20 years ago.

Summer is a time to get lost in words. Vacationers usually pick up books to read by the pool or at the beach. If you’re a gamer, the equivalent to a good read is an adventure game or visual novel.

Makes sense as this is, perhaps, the Super Famicom’s most dubious unlicensed game: SM Teacher Note: This article contains content some readers might find objectionable. Recently, Twitter user ...