Nintendo NES

The New-Style NES is a compact, cost-reduced, redesigned version of the Famicom/NES released by Nintendo in 1993.

Redesigned by Lance Barr, the New-Style NES has a vertical cartridge slot to prevent reliability issues common with the spring-loaded mechanism in the original NES. The console removed the 10NES lockout chip, allowing it to play unlicensed games. The console also removed composite video output, leaving only RF output available on it; Nintendo later produced a rare version of the console that replaced RF with the AV "multi-out" port used on the SNES. Although a game was not bundled with the New-Style NES, it came packaged with a redesigned controller modeled after the SNES controller; colloquially called the "dog bone" controller due to its resemblance in shape to one, it also retailed separately for $15 ($30 in 2022 dollars) each.

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The Sharp Nintendo Television, often described as the C1 NES TV, is a CRT television with a built-in Famicom/NES that was produced by Sharp under license from Nintendo. It was originally released in Japan in October 1983 as the My Computer TV; it was also distributed in Taiwan via Sampo as the Sampo C1 starting in 1984. The unit was showcased at the Summer CES in 1987 with a release in the United States intended for later that year, but it was not released there until 1989 as the Game Television. The C1 is notable for having provided the high-quality screenshots displayed in video game magazines of the period, as it had a better picture quality than a Famicom or NES paired with a separate television due to its direct internal display connection.

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