Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Using one of the original red Game Boys as a base, they then go ...

More than 30 years after their original releases in 1988 and 1989, both Famicom Detective Club games have received modern remakes on Nintendo Switch. I had never played either game before, but I went ...

Here’s the first trailer for both games. The Famicom Detective Club games originally only appeared on the Famicom in Japan. These are full remakes with new graphics, completely prepared for a ...

Visual novels aren’t exactly the most popular game genre here in the United States, which is why it was such a surprise when Nintendo announced that the two Famicom Detective Club games were coming to ...

TOKYO--Nintendo announced today that it will release a new Game Boy Advance SP model modeled after the company's Famicom console, known in American as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It will ...

The game was originally released for the Super Famicom in 1998 (a remake of the 1989 sequel) via Nintendo Power and ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2004 as part of the Famicom Mini-series. Spent the ...

Back in December 2000, Somari began a Famicom game collection with the 1986 title Mobile Suit Z Gundam: Hot Scramble. And now, as of this spring, the YouTuber finally owns all 1,053 games for the ...

TOKYO--The Level X game exhibition and Famicom retrospective that opens in Tokyo on December 4 will showcase just how far video games have come since Nintendo launched its first console 20 years ago.

Nintendo fully revealed Emio following teasers of a man wearing a paper bag with a smile on it, and it turns out it was part of a reveal for Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club. This is the ...

Following the precedent set by last year’s hot-ticket NES and Famicom Classic mini consoles, Nintendo will release the Super NES Classic in the west and its counterpart, Super Famicom Mini, in the ...