With all the supply issues of the SNES Classic Edition in the U.S. and Europe, its Japanese cousin the Super Famicom Mini is more widely available here and is a lovely little piece of gaming hardware.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. That was of the older 3DS though and while it filled my nerdy ...

A piece of Nintendo history with a blood-red power button and 3.5mm jack was up for auction in Japan. A piece of Nintendo history with a blood-red power button and 3.5mm jack was up for auction in ...

In case you haven't heard, Nintendo revealed the Super NES Classic today, the 16-bit follow-up to the highly sought-after NES Classic. True to form, Nintendo announced the Super Famicom Mini for Japan ...

Nintendo has a new skin for the 3DS LL that replicates the classic Super Famicom aesthetic, down to the packaging. The graphic on the back of the system looks like the top of a Super Famicom — the ...

The latest Japanese Nintendo Direct broadcast reveals a new, Japan-exclusive Nintendo 3DS XL model that's aesthetically based on the classic Super Famicom console. Japan will be getting a new Nintendo ...

Japan will forever get better video game-related swag than we do. It's fact. There's no point in disputing it. The latest Nintendo Direct (at least Nintendo's home Japanese division) proves this fact ...

Video games are a cyclical hobby. When Nintendo released the Famicom/NES, it was the hottest hardware with the best lineup of games the industry had ever seen. After enough time passed, though, that ...

You probably already know that the Sony PlayStation was originally a hybrid Super Famicom/CD-ROM add-on that was going to be manufactured by Sony. The recently-released picture above is purported to ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. On November 21, 1990, Nintendo Japan released three amazing things—the first F-Zero, Super Mario World and a console to play them on. It was a very ...