NES Games

The Nintendo Entertainment System, born as the Famicom and architected by Masayuki Uemura's R&D2 team, revived the console market with robust cartridge licensing, a now-standard D-pad controller, and 8-bit PPU/APU silicon; it arrived in Japan on July 15 1983, rolled out in limited North American test markets in 1985 before the October 18 nationwide push, and hit Europe between 1986 and 1987.