NES

The NES was first available in Japan in 1983, then in the US in 1985. It had a Ricoh 8-bit processor with MOS 6502 core running at 1.79 MHz on the NTSC model and at 1.66 Mhz on the PAL version. Main system RAM was 16K, with extra memory provided on some game cartridges. The NES had 5-channel sound.

The console sold about 60 million units world-wide with Super Mario Bros being the most popular game.

The NES

Accessories

Controller Pad

NES controller

Games 

A vast number of games were available, including:

• Adventure Island
• Advance Dungeons & Dragons (series)
• Afterburner
• Airwolf
• Back to the Future
• Batman
• Blades of Steel
• Bubble Bobble
• Castlequest
• The Chessmaster
• Commando
• Defender II
• Donkey Kong
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Final Fantasy
• G. I. Joe
• Gauntlet
• The Hunt for Red October
• Ice Hockey
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Jaws
• Kung Fu
• Last Ninja
• Lode Runner
• Mad Max
• Mario Bros.
• NARC
• NFL Football
• Overlord
• Pac-Man
• Platoon
• Q-Bert
• Robocop
• Shinobi
• Star Wars
• Tetris
• Ultima V
• Winter Games
• WWF (series)
• Yoshi
• Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

Lemmings game box