Nintendo Ends NES And SNES Production

Posted by simoniker on Friday May 30, 2003 @04:46PM from the end-of-an-era dept.

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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Re:NES by OneBarG · 2003-05-30 17:10 · Score: 3, Funny

I pulled out my old NES a few weeks ago to play the 4 or so games I had for it. Got 3 of them working (Excitebike won't, but I've got the N64 version of that at least) most of the time. Takes 8 or 9 tries to get them working.

So, my latest obsession has been just trying to get games to work. Just like the good old days.

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Re:I find what the author spoke of to be very by Lazyhound · 2003-05-30 18:17 · Score: 3, Informative

What the hell are you talking about?

Read the fricking articles, for Christ's sake. It was a peripheral that let you write games onto special carts from kiosks in drug stores.