Nintendo Ends NES And SNES Production

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out the news on Gamespot that Nintendo is ending production of the classic Famicom (NES) and Super Famicom (SNES) consoles. Apparently, a limited amount of AV Famicoms and SFC Jr. Super Famicoms were still being manufactured in Japan - but sadly, not any more. Also, according to Gamespot, "Nintendo will also stop its disk-rewriting services for the Famicom Disk System, a supplemental device released in 1986" - amazing that Nintendo was still allowing Disk System re-writing after almost 20 years, and that they allowed Gameboy/SNES cartridge re-writing, which also never made it outside Japan, until late 2002.

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NES

[funkhauser]

Ahh. The Good Old NES. I love that system. Collecting old NES games, systems, and peripherals has essentially become my current collecting obsession, overtaking Magic cards and Legos. All those great games. All those bad games that are just absolutely hilarious. It really is an amazing system from a truly formative time in the video game history...

Yes. I'm a nerd. A normal person wouldn't get that worked up about a game console. :)

Re:SNES Dead?

[bluemeep]

Oddly enough, I'm better with a keyboard than a gamepad/arcade stick... Though I think I can blame marathon sessions of One Must Fall for setting the precedent there. MAME and SNES9x just honed the ability ^^;