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> Nintendo established the blueprint for gamepads in 1985 with the iconic rectangular Nintendo Entertainment System I'm pretty sure they did it two years befor
by sdf4j 3y ago
> Nintendo established the blueprint for gamepads in 1985 with the iconic rectangular Nintendo Entertainment System
I'm pretty sure they did it two years before with the famicom gamepad.
- chrisco255 3y agoRight, but Famicom is just the Japanese name for the NES, which, as you say, debuted in Japan first.
- msk-lywenn 3y agoOp is right, the famicom/nes was released in 1983
- chrisco255 3y agoI concurred with the 1983 release date for the Famicom/NES in Japan. Just pointing out that it's really the same system.
- cubefox 3y agoThe NES actually had a pretty different shell, removable controllers, one audio channel less, and some other hardware differences.
- chrisco255 3y agoYeah a different shell catered for the American market and certainly some minor differences, and despite regional incompatiblity, the NES & Famicom have the same core chips and instruction set.