{"id":8306,"date":"2023-07-18T16:46:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T16:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8306"},"modified":"2023-07-18T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T16:46:03","slug":"40-years-of-the-nintendo-famicom-the-console-that-changed-the-games-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8306","title":{"rendered":"40 years of the Nintendo Famicom \u2013 the console that changed the games industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/jul\/18\/40-years-of-the-nintendo-famicom-the-console-that-changed-the-games-industry\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/30589e49b2e292bb89322fce75d058be64321fdd\/49_0_2467_1482\/master\/2467.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Entering a crowded field, the Nintendo Famicom came to dominate the market in the 1980s, leaving a family orientated legacy that continues to be felt today<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Guardian has a good story on the 40th anniversary of the Nintendo Famicom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/jul\/18\/40-years-of-the-nintendo-famicom-the-console-that-changed-the-games-industry\">40 years of the Nintendo Famicom \u2013 the console that changed the games industry<\/a> The story quotes James Newman and also mentions Masayuki Uemura who Newman and I knew through the <a href=\"https:\/\/replaying.jp\/\">Replaying Japan<\/a> conferences. Alas, Uemura, who was at Ritsumeikan after he retired from Nintendo, <a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7969\">passed in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The story points out how Nintendo deliberately promoted the Famicom as a family machine that could be hooked up to the family TV (hence &#8220;Fami &#8211; com.) In various ways they wanted to legitimize gaming as a family experience. By contrast, when Nintendo brought the machine to North America it was remodelled to look like a VCR and called the Nintendo Entertainment System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entering a crowded field, the Nintendo Famicom came to dominate the market in the 1980s, leaving a family orientated legacy that continues to be felt today The Guardian has a good story on the 40th anniversary of the Nintendo Famicom, 40 years of the Nintendo Famicom \u2013 the console that changed the games industry The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">40 years of the Nintendo Famicom \u2013 the console that changed the games industry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,80,5,13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-history","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-interface-design-and-usability","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8307,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306\/revisions\/8307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}