Famicom

Family Computer · 1983–2003

The machine that ended the crash before the crash ever reached Japan — Nintendo's Family Computer, launched in 1983, two years before its redesigned Western counterpart, the NES. The Famicom library is vast and distinct: smaller, brightly coloured cartridges, the Disk System add-on with its own catalogue of titles never sold on cartridge, and a long tail of Japan-only releases that make import Famicom collecting one of the deepest and most rewarding fields in the hobby. The grails span late, low-print cartridges, Disk System exclusives, and the earliest releases — a platform collected for both its historical primacy and the breadth of software that never left Japan.