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Nintendo Entertainment System

Nintendo · 1985

The Famicom redesigned to be sold in a country that had stopped buying consoles: a grey box styled like a video recorder, with a front loading slot and a lockout chip to control who could publish. It worked, and Nintendo owned the next decade. The loading mechanism is the notorious weak point — the pin connector wears and needs replacing.

As catalogued

Maker
Nintendo
CPU
Ricoh RP2A03-1.79
Memory
2K
Styles
NES-001 front loader, NES-101 top loader, NES (PAL A), NES (PAL B)
Regions
NTSC-J (Japan), NTSC-U (US), PAL (Europe)
Chassis
front-loading console
OS
cartridge, with a lockout chip

Chips

3
CPU
Ricoh RP2A03 (NTSC), Ricoh RP2A07 (PAL)
PPU
Ricoh RP2C02 (NTSC), Ricoh RP2C07 (PAL)
Lockout chip
Nintendo 10NES CIC, disabled or removed

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