40th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

It is July 2023, and 40 years have passed since the Nintendo Famicom was first released in Japan. The console would soon reach international success as the Nintendo Entertainment System, seeing release in North America on 18 October 1985 and in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden on 1 September 1986. Release in other parts of Europe then continued throughout 1987, for example, the console came to France in October 1987.

The rest is history. The NES became one of the most successful home video game consoles ever, and suddenly, entire families would soon know Mario, Link, Zelda, Mega Man and the Belmont Family. Even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles scored major successes with the console.

Production was cancelled in the Western World on 14 August 1995, and in Japan on 25 September 2003, the same day as production of the Super Famicom ended there.