Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System
Disney's The Lion King
Wild Gunman
Son Son
Cool World
Tom and Jerry
Balloon Fight
Clu Clu Land
Ghosts 'n Goblins
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Legend of Zelda
Tetris
Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt / World Class Track Meet
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
10-Yard Fight
The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy
Dragon Warrior III
Bases Loaded 4
Pac-Man Championship Edition
Ice Climber
Chubby Cherub
Chiller
Super C
Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular!
Ufouria: The Saga
Spot: The Video Game
Tennis
Snake's Revenge
Blaster Master
Wacky Races
Kid Icarus
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
Dragon Spirit: The New Legend
Castlevania
Super Mario Bros. 2
Joust
Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos
Milon's Secret Castle
Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Captain America and the Avengers
Zombie Nation
Little Nemo: The Dream Master
Back to the Future
Hogan's Alley
Disney's DuckTales 2
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
Ninja Gaiden
Yoshi
Kirby's Adventure
Excitebike
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Shortly after the Famicom's launch in 1983, Atari approached Nintendo offering to distribute the system outside of Japan as the Nintendo Enhanced Video System. Negotiations for the arrangement stalled when Atari saw a demonstration for the Coleco Adam home computer system that used the ColecoVision port of Donkey Kong as a demo title. Because Atari previously gained the exclusive PC port rights to the arcade game, they assumed that Nintendo was also working with Coleco behind their backs. By the time the misunderstanding was cleared up, the North American video game industry had crashed and Ray Kassar had stepped down as CEO of Atari, causing the agreement to be called off entirely. The Famicom wouldn't reach international shores until 1985, when Nintendo began distributing a revised version in North America themselves as the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Ars Technica article:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/time-to-feel-old-inside-the-nes-on-its-30th-birthday/
Classic Gaming article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051124042223/http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/nes20th/
GameSpy article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040701101711/http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/july03/famicom/index11.shtml
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/time-to-feel-old-inside-the-nes-on-its-30th-birthday/
Classic Gaming article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051124042223/http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/nes20th/
GameSpy article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040701101711/http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/july03/famicom/index11.shtml
Comments (1)
Weren't the first-party NES ports of games like Defender born from this scrapped deal or something like that?
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