We took a look back at more than 30 years worth of Nintendo consoles.
's systems has been focused on innovative technology and family fun, though some have been much more successful than others.
As the Famicom became more popular, Nintendo was eventually able to debut the console overseas with a new design, calling it the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES. With games like"Super Mario Bros." and"The Legend of Zelda," the console slowly but surely found an audience and eventually millions of homes around the world had an NES parked in the living room.
Exploring the legacy of Nintendo's hardware offers an interesting look at how video games have grown from the earliest days of 8-bit pixels to the high-definition marvel that is the Nintendo Switch.Before there was the NES, there was the Color TV-Game. Nintendo first dipped its toes into console gaming by launching five of these rectangles between 1977 and 1980, all in its native Japan.
While it wasn't as big a smash as its predecessor, it was still the top seller of the"16-bit" era, which brought a wave of more powerful machines and more complicated controllers.
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