Years before Sega did what Nintendon’t the two gaming giants briefly went head to head in the newly discovered market of 3D gaming. It didn’t go very well for either of them.

Mexico’s Federal Police yesterday intercepted a shipment of contraband goods headed for the US at Guadalajara Airport. Inside was not drugs, or weapons, but vials full of live spiders hidden inside what look like fake Famicom games.

Just as Nintendo has decided to end NES Classic production, it’s doing the same in Japan for the miniature Famicom. Yet, the decision does not sound permanent.

One of the best horror games ever developed came out for the Famicom in 1989 from Capcom. It was a rare, licensed game that was somehow better than its source material.

Most game hardware is inevitably modded . That means if there are secret messages in the code, people will probably find them.

Love, everyone.

The Famicom Mini sold 262,961 in its first four days on sale in Japan, Famitsu reports. Not bad, Nintendo! Not bad at all.

Now, this is brilliant. The dad from YouTube channel RuiRei Channel created a Famicom console costume to wear with his twin sons. Famicom, Family Computer, family costumes, geddit? Told you it was clever!

Do you have small hands? This might be the controller for you!

America is getting the Mini-NES. Japan, naturally, will be getting a Mini-Famicom to match.

Many games offer ways to program new code that allows players to skip to the credits. It’s a complicated process that’s allowed people to leap to the end of Super Mario World and skip over most of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. So why not jump right to the end of The Legend of Zelda?

In 1991, Nintendo published an adventure game (developed by Pax Softnica) in Japan for the Famicom Disk System called Time Twist. It is not the kind of game Nintendo would publish in 2016.

On July 15, 1983, the Family Computer was released in Japan. Video games were never the same.

Japanese game magazine Famitsu is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the publication polled readers, asking them which games were most memorable on consoles ranging from the Famicom to the PS4.

It’s May, which means it’s time for the annual Famicase exhibition, a showcase put on by Japanese game store Meteor that asks artists from around the world to design beautiful cartridges for fake video games. Which end up looking good enough for us to want them to be real video games.

Don’t you miss instruction manuals? Or even just paper? I know I do. And these photos make me miss them even more.