The remodelled 'dog bone' controllers took inspiration from the iconic SNES joypad, but the lack of composite AV was a pain.Īlso known as the NES Jr - and its official model number NES-101 - this was a radical rethink when compared to the iconic front-loading original. NES 2 (1993) Sporting a very different look to the 'toaster' NES, this revised model reverted back to a more traditional top-loading cartridge port. Disk System units - including the Twin Famicom - also suffered from performance issues, due to the degradation of the delicate rubber band which powered the drive itself. Many of Nintendo's key franchises made their debuts on the floppy-like Disk System - including The Legend of Zelda and Metroid - but the lack of a global release for the format meant that these games were released as standard carts in the rest of the world.
The Famicom Twin took a Famicom console (known in the West as the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES to its mates) and fused it with the Japan-only Famicom Disk System storage add-on to create a single, unified machine.
Ironically, the first time an existing piece of Nintendo hardware was revised, it was Sharp rather than Nintendo itself that was responsible for the handiwork.
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Its ability to play both cartridge and Disk System software was a real bonus, although the latter would never make it out of Japan. Sharp Twin Famicom (1986) Available in both bright red and deep black, the Twin Famicom was worlds apart from the original Famicom in terms of aesthetics. To celebrate the availability of this new super-sized slab of console, we've created a whistle-stop tour of Nintendo's vibrant hardware history, casting an inquisitive eye over the many revisions pushed onto the market by the Kyoto veteran. It also illustrates perfectly Nintendo's penchant for subtly and tirelessly updating its existing hardware in order to maintain consumer interest and exploit newer, cheaper production techniques. With bigger screens, a higher capacity battery but the same basic internal technology, the 3DS XL is - as we stated in our review - a revision rather than a revolution. Tomorrow marks the UK launch of Nintendo's shiny new 3DS XL console, an engorged variant of the autostereoscopic 3D system originally released in 2010.
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