The Classic NES Series in World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is the third largest continent in area and in population after Eurasia and Africa. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the... North America, Famicom Mini Series in Official language Japanese Capital Tokyo Largest City Tokyo Emperor Akihito Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 60th 377,835 km² 0.8% Population  - Total ( 2004)  - Density Ranked 10th 127,333,002 337/km² GDP  - Total (PPP, 2005)  - Total (nominal)  ... Japan, or NES Classics in World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. It is conventionally considered a continent, which, in this case, is more of a cultural distinction than a geographic one. ( National Geographic, however, officially recognises... Europe are a series of The Game Boy Advance is a best-selling handheld. The Game Boy Advance (GBA) is a handheld video game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo. It is one of the latest in the Game Boy series of consoles, and the successor to the popular Game Boy Color. It was... Game Boy Advance games that were originally released on the The Nintendo Entertainment System (North America, Europe, and Australia) NES redirects here. For other uses, see NES (disambiguation). The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, is a video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Europe and Australia. In Japan and South Korea it is known as the Nintendo Family... Nintendo Entertainment System/ The Nintendo Entertainment System (North America, Europe, and Australia) NES redirects here. For other uses, see NES (disambiguation). The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, is a video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Europe and Australia. In Japan and South Korea it is known as the Nintendo Family... Famicom remade for the Game Boy Advance. A special edition The SP is hinged in the middle. The hinge locks at a 45° angle for easier viewing. The Game Boy Advance SP, released in early 2003, is an upgrade to Nintendos Game Boy Advance. The SP stands for Special. Improvements over the original Game Boy Advance include an internal... Game Boy Advance SP, which has a similar design to a NES/Famicom controller, was released to go along with these games. The color of the cartridges match the color of the original NES carts.

All of these games were released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Famicom in Japan.

Classic NES Series: Super Mario Bros. This is the cover art for a video game. It is believed that cover art may be displayed on Wikipedia under the fair use provision of United States copyright law as such display does not significantly impede the right of the copyright holder to...

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The original box art is used with the title, Classic NES Series, on the top

List of games

Famicom Mini Series (Japan)

Series 1 (released February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 320 days remaining, 321 in leap years. Events 1014 - Pope Boniface I recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany. 1076 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. 1556 - Thomas Cranmer is declared... February 14, 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) Elections were held in 73 countries during 2004. See a list of elections... 2004)

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• Donkey Kong is an arcade game created by Nintendo, released in 1981. The game introduced two of Nintendos most important characters, Mario and Donkey Kong. In the game, the players character Jumpman (later: Mario) must rescue his girlfriend Pauline. Stages There are four stages, each made up of... Donkey Kong
• Excitebike is a video game franchise made by Nintendo. It is a series of motocross racing games. Excitebike The first Excitebike game was released in 1984 as an arcade game. Excitebike gained far more exposure, however, with its October 1985 release for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is one of... Excitebike
• Ice Climber screenshot Ice Climber (Japanese: アイスクライマー) is a video game for the NES developed by Nintendo and released in 1985. In the game, the players controls Popo (a boy dressed in a blue eskimo suit) and Nana (a girl dressed in a... Ice Climber
• Mappy is a 1983 arcade game by Namco. In the U.S. it was manufactured and distributed by Bally/Midway. Mappy is a side-scrolling maze game that features cute cartoony characters. It was re-released as part of the Famicom Mini Series in 2004, only in Japan. Game play... Mappy
• Monitor Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster, standard resolution (224 x 288) 16 Colors Notes Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Ranked the #1 most popular arcade game of all time by the Killer List of Videogames web site. Pac-Man is an arcade game created by Namco game designer... Pac-Man
• Star Soldier
• Super Mario Bros. is a cartridge-based video game for the Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe that made Mario famous. It featured the first appearance of Princess Peach Toadstool, King Bowser Koopa and other characters. The classic game is... Super Mario Bros.
• System hardware/Arcade system This game runs on the Galaga Hardware Monitor Notes The first vertically scrolling Shotem up; Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games Xevious was an arcade video game by Namco, released in 1983. It was designed by Masanobu Endoh. In the U.S., the... Xevious
• The Legend of Zelda was the first game in The Legend of Zelda series of video games, made by Nintendo under the direction of game creator Shigeru Miyamoto, who also created Mario. The game was inspired by Miyamotos imaginary adventures in the woods behind his home from when he... Zelda no Densetsu

Series 2 (released May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). There are 224 days remaining. Events 996 - Sixteen year old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1674 - John Sobieski is elected by the nobility to be the King of Poland. 1856 - Lawrence... May 21, 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) Elections were held in 73 countries during 2004. See a list of elections... 2004)

• Monitor Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster, standard resolution (256 x 480) 320 Colors Balloon Fight is an arcade video game created by Nintendo, and released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It has been released as Balloon Fight-e for the e-Reader, is obtainable in Animal Crossing, and one of the... Balloon Fight
• Clu Clu Land is an arcade video game created by Nintendo. It was released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and has been released as Clu Clu Land-e on the e-Reader. It is one of the NES games obtainable in Animal Crossing, and has been released as one of... Clu Clu Land
• Dig-Dug
• A two-player game of Dr. Mario. Dr. Mario is an arcade-style puzzle game published in various versions by Nintendo on the Famicom, NES, Playchoice-10, Vs. Unisystem and Dualsystem, Game Boy, Super Famicom, Super NES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, Famicom Mini, the Japanese Game Cube, and as... Dr. Mario
• Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Douchuu
• Makaimura
• Mario Bros. is a classic arcade game made by Nintendo, released in 1983 as an arcade game and later ported to many home systems. It was a spin-off from the Donkey Kong series. It was the first game to feature Marios name in the title. It also featured... Mario Bros.
• Takahashi Meijin Bouken Shima
• Twinbee is a game series by Konami which started with the original Twinbee on the MSX home computer system (later a NES version was made, as were an arcade version as well as a few for PlayStation). Oshaberi Parodius (actually Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius) is a SNES game on the Parodius... Twinbee
• System hardware/Arcade system This game runs on the Nintendo Vs. Series Monitor Notes none Wrecking Crew was a game for the Nintendo Family Computer starring Mario. The game had a North American release for the Nintendo Entertainment System. In this game, the player controls Mario as he works to... Wrecking Crew

Series 3 (released August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining. The term the 10th of August is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792, the effective end... August 10, 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) Elections were held in 73 countries during 2004. See a list of elections... 2004)

• Castlevania is the North American and European title of Demon Castle Dracula (悪魔城ドラキュラ Akumajō Dracula), a Japanese console video game developed and published by Konami for the Famicom Disk System in 1986. The following year it was ported to cartridge format and... Akumajou Dracula (a part of the Castlevania is a video game series, created and developed by Konami. The series debuted in Japan with the release of Akumajō Dracula for the Famicom Disk System and MSX platforms in 1986 in Japan. Even though the MSX port (which was localized in Europe under the title of Vampire... Castlevania series)
• Famicom Detective Club
• Famicom Detective Club Part II
• Kid Icarus gameplay Kid Icarus (derived from the Greek myth of Icarus) is the title of a game for the Famicom Disk System in Japan. In other markets, it was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System game console. Kid Icarus was designed by Gunpei Yokoi , famous for creating the Game... Kid Icarus
• Metroid title screen This article is about the video game called Metroid, the first game in the Metroid series. For the titular fictional species from the Metroid games, see Metroid (video game species). Metroid is the first game in the Metroid series, and was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System... Metroid
• The Mysterious Castle of Murasame
• New Ogre Island
• SD Gundam World: Scramble Wars
• SMB 2 title screen (Japanese version) Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan) is the true sequel to Nintendos Super Mario Bros. It was first released in Japan on June 3, 1986 for the Nintendo Famicom; it is notable for being undeniably the most... Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japanese version)
• Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and the second in the Legend of Zelda series of games. Emboldened by the massive, widespread success of the original Legend of Zelda, Nintendo envisioned a radically different gameplay engine when the time for a... Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

Classic NES Series (North America)

Series 1 (released June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. Events 1000-1899 1099 - Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem (1099) 1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. 1654... June 7, 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) Elections were held in 73 countries during 2004. See a list of elections... 2004)

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• Donkey Kong is an arcade game created by Nintendo, released in 1981. The game introduced two of Nintendos most important characters, Mario and Donkey Kong. In the game, the players character Jumpman (later: Mario) must rescue his girlfriend Pauline. Stages There are four stages, each made up of... Donkey Kong
• Excitebike is a video game franchise made by Nintendo. It is a series of motocross racing games. Excitebike The first Excitebike game was released in 1984 as an arcade game. Excitebike gained far more exposure, however, with its October 1985 release for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is one of... Excitebike
• Ice Climber screenshot Ice Climber (Japanese: アイスクライマー) is a video game for the NES developed by Nintendo and released in 1985. In the game, the players controls Popo (a boy dressed in a blue eskimo suit) and Nana (a girl dressed in a... Ice Climber
• The Legend of Zelda was the first game in The Legend of Zelda series of video games, made by Nintendo under the direction of game creator Shigeru Miyamoto, who also created Mario. The game was inspired by Miyamotos imaginary adventures in the woods behind his home from when he... The Legend of Zelda
• Monitor Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster, standard resolution (224 x 288) 16 Colors Notes Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Ranked the #1 most popular arcade game of all time by the Killer List of Videogames web site. Pac-Man is an arcade game created by Namco game designer... Pac-Man
• Super Mario Bros. is a cartridge-based video game for the Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe that made Mario famous. It featured the first appearance of Princess Peach Toadstool, King Bowser Koopa and other characters. The classic game is... Super Mario Bros.
• System hardware/Arcade system This game runs on the Galaga Hardware Monitor Notes The first vertically scrolling Shotem up; Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games Xevious was an arcade video game by Namco, released in 1983. It was designed by Masanobu Endoh. In the U.S., the... Xevious

Series 2 (released October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. Events 732 - Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into... October 25, 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) Elections were held in 73 countries during 2004. See a list of elections... 2004)

• Castlevania is the North American and European title of Demon Castle Dracula (悪魔城ドラキュラ Akumajō Dracula), a Japanese console video game developed and published by Konami for the Famicom Disk System in 1986. The following year it was ported to cartridge format and... Castlevania
• A two-player game of Dr. Mario. Dr. Mario is an arcade-style puzzle game published in various versions by Nintendo on the Famicom, NES, Playchoice-10, Vs. Unisystem and Dualsystem, Game Boy, Super Famicom, Super NES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, Famicom Mini, the Japanese Game Cube, and as... Dr. Mario
• Metroid title screen This article is about the video game called Metroid, the first game in the Metroid series. For the titular fictional species from the Metroid games, see Metroid (video game species). Metroid is the first game in the Metroid series, and was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System... Metroid
• Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and the second in the Legend of Zelda series of games. Emboldened by the massive, widespread success of the original Legend of Zelda, Nintendo envisioned a radically different gameplay engine when the time for a... Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

NES Classics (Europe)

Series 1 (released July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the western Roman Empire. 1357 5:31 AM - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assisted laying the foundation stone of... July 9, 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) Elections were held in 73 countries during 2004. See a list of elections... 2004)

• Categories: Computer and video game stubs | Computer and video game franchises | Puzzle computer games ... Bomberman
• Donkey Kong is an arcade game created by Nintendo, released in 1981. The game introduced two of Nintendos most important characters, Mario and Donkey Kong. In the game, the players character Jumpman (later: Mario) must rescue his girlfriend Pauline. Stages There are four stages, each made up of... Donkey Kong
• Excitebike is a video game franchise made by Nintendo. It is a series of motocross racing games. Excitebike The first Excitebike game was released in 1984 as an arcade game. Excitebike gained far more exposure, however, with its October 1985 release for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is one of... Excitebike
• Ice Climber screenshot Ice Climber (Japanese: アイスクライマー) is a video game for the NES developed by Nintendo and released in 1985. In the game, the players controls Popo (a boy dressed in a blue eskimo suit) and Nana (a girl dressed in a... Ice Climber
• The Legend of Zelda was the first game in The Legend of Zelda series of video games, made by Nintendo under the direction of game creator Shigeru Miyamoto, who also created Mario. The game was inspired by Miyamotos imaginary adventures in the woods behind his home from when he... The Legend of Zelda
• Monitor Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster, standard resolution (224 x 288) 16 Colors Notes Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Ranked the #1 most popular arcade game of all time by the Killer List of Videogames web site. Pac-Man is an arcade game created by Namco game designer... Pac-Man
• Super Mario Bros. is a cartridge-based video game for the Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe that made Mario famous. It featured the first appearance of Princess Peach Toadstool, King Bowser Koopa and other characters. The classic game is... Super Mario Bros.
• System hardware/Arcade system This game runs on the Galaga Hardware Monitor Notes The first vertically scrolling Shotem up; Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games Xevious was an arcade video game by Namco, released in 1983. It was designed by Masanobu Endoh. In the U.S., the... Xevious

Criticisms of the Classic NES Series

Some North American gamers have sharply critcized Nintendo for the shoddy North American lineup. Many arguments and pointed criticisms have been fired at all 12 released games:

• Categories: Computer and video game stubs | Computer and video game franchises | Puzzle computer games ... Bomberman - Not the best version; later released versions are better and more thorough
• Donkey Kong is an arcade game created by Nintendo, released in 1981. The game introduced two of Nintendos most important characters, Mario and Donkey Kong. In the game, the players character Jumpman (later: Mario) must rescue his girlfriend Pauline. Stages There are four stages, each made up of... Donkey Kong - The pie/cement factory level from the arcade series was not implemented. Although that wouldn't make it "Classic NES," people still wanted to play it. It has also been released on the The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is e-Reader. The e-Reader is a device made by Nintendo for its Game Boy Advance portable video game system. It has a scanner that reads e-cards, paper cards with specially encoded data... E-Reader
• Excitebike is a video game franchise made by Nintendo. It is a series of motocross racing games. Excitebike The first Excitebike game was released in 1984 as an arcade game. Excitebike gained far more exposure, however, with its October 1985 release for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is one of... Excitebike - Only one savable track and also released for the The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is e-Reader. The e-Reader is a device made by Nintendo for its Game Boy Advance portable video game system. It has a scanner that reads e-cards, paper cards with specially encoded data... E-Reader
• Ice Climber screenshot Ice Climber (Japanese: アイスクライマー) is a video game for the NES developed by Nintendo and released in 1985. In the game, the players controls Popo (a boy dressed in a blue eskimo suit) and Nana (a girl dressed in a... Ice Climber - Not a true classic game and also released for the The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is e-Reader. The e-Reader is a device made by Nintendo for its Game Boy Advance portable video game system. It has a scanner that reads e-cards, paper cards with specially encoded data... E-Reader
• The Legend of Zelda was the first game in The Legend of Zelda series of video games, made by Nintendo under the direction of game creator Shigeru Miyamoto, who also created Mario. The game was inspired by Miyamotos imaginary adventures in the woods behind his home from when he... The Legend of Zelda - Many people wanted this game and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and the second in the Legend of Zelda series of games. Emboldened by the massive, widespread success of the original Legend of Zelda, Nintendo envisioned a radically different gameplay engine when the time for a... Zelda II: The Adventure of Link to be on one cart instead of being released seperately (at $40 retail, it was quite expensive)
• Monitor Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster, standard resolution (224 x 288) 16 Colors Notes Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Ranked the #1 most popular arcade game of all time by the Killer List of Videogames web site. Pac-Man is an arcade game created by Namco game designer... Pac-Man - Released on Namco Museum and other games
• Super Mario Bros. is a cartridge-based video game for the Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe that made Mario famous. It featured the first appearance of Princess Peach Toadstool, King Bowser Koopa and other characters. The classic game is... Super Mario Bros. - Already included in Super Mario Brothers Deluxe for the Gameboy Color (the GBC version also had more extra items)
• System hardware/Arcade system This game runs on the Galaga Hardware Monitor Notes The first vertically scrolling Shotem up; Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games Xevious was an arcade video game by Namco, released in 1983. It was designed by Masanobu Endoh. In the U.S., the... Xevious - A classic 'arcade' game, not a classic NES game. Many people didn't like the squashed squashed screen and the lack of bombs and other weapons; to sum it up, many people believed that Xevious did not age well.
• Metroid title screen This article is about the video game called Metroid, the first game in the Metroid series. For the titular fictional species from the Metroid games, see Metroid (video game species). Metroid is the first game in the Metroid series, and was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System... Metroid - Already included as an unlockable in Metroid: Zero Mission

Many other people also regard the released games as incomplete. They would like other classic NES games like Castlevania 2 and 3, Kid Icarus, Punch-Out, and Contra (the most popular and requested) to be released. Since the Nintendo DS has been released, the chances have been diminished that they will ever be released.

Other gamers have complained that the retail price, $20, was too hard to swallow for a breath of nolstalga; a bunch of old, short games. They would have preferred compilation carts in which many games were bundled into one cartridge.

See also

• Nintendo Corporation, Limited (Japanese: 任天堂; Ninten is translated roughly as leave luck to heaven or in heavens hands, do is a common suffix for names of shops or laboratories; TSE: NTDOY) was originally founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in... Nintendo
• Although the history of computer and video games spans almost five decades, computer and video games themselves did not become part of the popular culture until the late 1970s. For a timeline of computer and video game related events, see timeline of computer and video games. Early years Three people... History of video games

External link

• Classic NES Series for Game Boy Advance (http://www.classicnesseries.com)