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{{Infobox console|title = Nintendo Entertainment System|logo = Nes.png|developer = Nintendo|type = [[File:Nes.pngCategory:Consoles|Home video game console]]|generation = Third generation|thumbrelease = 1983|250pxdiscontinued = 2003|The successor = [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)emulators|SNES]]|emulated = {{✓}}}}The '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System Nintendo Entertainment System]''' (NES) is an 8-bit, third-generation console released in 1983 in Japan, where it was known as the '''Family Computer''' or '''Famicom'''.
The earliest games released on the Famicom suffered from significant hardware constraints caused by the way the Famicom was designed: limitations for memory addressing (which meant games had a low maximal ROM size), how the graphics are loaded onscreen, just the native sound processing is available, no saving... To solve this problem, Nintendo came up with two solutions:
