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The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, is the first system that Nintendo released. Following Nintendo's arcade success in the early 1980s, Nintendo decided to create a cartridge-based home system. Designed by Masayuki Uemura, the Famicom was released in Japan on July 15, 1983 for 14,800 yen (about US$122).

During it's first year, many people were critical of the Famicom due to programming errors and freezing during game play. Following a product recall and a new motherboard, these problems were fixed and the Famicom became Japan's most popular console by the end of 1984.