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cheaper games; the cost of chips and semiconductors made cartridges expensive to make, and often cost a lot of money for both stores and consumers to purchase. Chip shortages also created supply issues. To satisfy these requests, Nintendo began thinking of ways to potentially lower the cost of games. It turned towards the home computer market for inspiration; Nintendo specifically looked to floppy disks which were quickly becoming the standard for storage media for personal computers. Floppy disks were cheap to produce and rewritable, allowing games to be easily produced during the manufacturing process. Seeing its potential, Nintendo began work on a disk-based peripheral for the
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shell. The disks themselves are fragile, and the lack of a shutter made them collect dust and fingerprints, eventually rendering them unplayable as a result. Piracy was also rampant, with disk copying devices and bootleg games becoming commonplace in stores and in magazine advertisements. Third-party developers for the Disk System were also angered towards
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access more games. In 1986, as video gaming had increasingly expanded from computers into the video game console market, Nintendo advertised a promise to install 10,000 Famicom Disk Writer kiosks in toy and hobby stores across Japan within one year. These jukebox style stations allowed users to copy from a rotating stock of the latest games to their disks and keep each one for an unlimited time. To write an existing disk with a new game from the available roster was
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for ¥2000. Nintendo also introduced special high-score tournaments for specific Disk System games, where players could submit their scores directly to
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Famicom as a cartridge game, with its own battery backup save feature. Nintendo officially discontinued the Famicom Disk System in 1990, selling around 4.4 million units total. Disk writing services were still kept in operation until September 30, 2003, while technical services were
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Coinciding with the Disk System's release, Nintendo installed several "Disk Writer" kiosks in various toy and electronic stores across the country. These kiosks allowed customers to bring in their disk games and have a new game rewritten onto them for a ¥500 fee; blank disks could also be purchased
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sound hardware. Finally, embedded in the 2C33 is an 8KB BIOS ROM. The Disk Cards used are double-sided, with a total capacity of 112 KB per disk. Many games span both sides of a disk and a few span multiple disks, requiring the user to switch at some point during gameplay. The Disk System is
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as a launch title, alongside disk re-releases of earlier
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media format, a cheaper alternative to floppy disks for Japanese home computers. The Disk Card format presented a number of advantages over cartridges, such as increased storage capacity that allowed for larger games, additional sound channels, and the ability to save player progress. The add-on
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71 mm 2.8 in square disk format which is used in a handful of Japanese computers and various synthesizer keyboards, along with a few word processors. QuickDisk drives are in a few devices in Europe and North America. Mitsumi already had close relations with Nintendo, as it manufactured the
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on a 128k cartridge - larger than the Disk Card's 112k capacity - which, as a result, made consumers and developers less impressed with the Disk System's technological features. Retailers disliked the Disk Writer kiosks for taking up too much space and for generally being unprofitable. The Disk
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for the creation of a new wave of home console video games and a new type of video game experience, mostly due to tripling the size of cheap game storage compared to affordable cartridge ROMs, and by storing gamers' progress within their vast new adventures. These games include the
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or the supplied AC adapter. Batteries usually last five months with daily game play. The inclusion of a battery option is due to the likelihood of a standard set of AC plugs already being occupied by a Famicom and a television.
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The kiosk service was very popular and remained available until 2003. In subsequent console generations, Nintendo would relaunch this online national leaderboard concept with the home satellite-based
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There are about 200 games in the Famicom Disk System's library. Some are FDS exclusives, some are Disk Writer exclusives, and many were re-released years later on the cartridge format such as
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was to be released for the FDS, but a disagreement over Nintendo's copyright policies caused Square to change its position and release the game as a cartridge.
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could learn from ", and that the system's premise of game rental and achievements would still be innovative in today's retail and online stores.
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2345:Connectivity
2316:Transfer Pak
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2420:Nintendo 64
2415:Super Scope
2382:Controllers
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2116:Switch Lite
2082:Nintendo DS
2017:iQue Player
2012:Nintendo 64
1848:Analogue Nt
1733:Turbotronic
1718:Power Glove
1686:Third-party
1612:Accessories
1493:October 12,
1413:January 20,
1329:January 20,
1268:January 20,
1257:Retro Gamer
1172:January 20,
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845:Mario Bros.
787:Castlevania
736:) Disk Card
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503:Hudson Soft
485:cartridge.
482:Punch-Out!!
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396:(1986) and
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336:Satellaview
272:4.4 million
2704:Categories
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2447:Wii Zapper
2437:Wii Remote
2390:NES Zapper
2301:Rumble Pak
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1758:Ricoh 2A03
1708:LaserScope
1698:Game Genie
1667:NES Zapper
999:References
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694:Quick Disk
651:Technology
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388:open world
361:peripheral
355:, or just
300:Ricoh 2A03
269:Units sold
170:Generation
68:newspapers
2657:Super NES
2616:Hollywood
2526:Wii Speak
2464:Wii U Pro
2234:Super NES
2146:Dedicated
2007:Super NES
1911:NES Remix
1802:Cancelled
1672:Power Pad
1548:April 25,
1375:780180879
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1059:April 28,
1049:"修理の参考価格"
1028:April 28,
836:advergame
682:batteries
661:kilobytes
416:systems.
332:Successor
302:processor
280:112
98:June 2023
2679:Play-Yan
2662:Game Boy
2647:Game Pak
2631:Tegra X1
2626:Espresso
2611:Broadway
2592:Super FX
2425:GameCube
2326:e-Reader
2244:Game Boy
2179:Handheld
2125:Portable
2050:Game Boy
2043:Handheld
2024:GameCube
1980:Consoles
1865:Game Axe
1778:Software
1764:Game Pak
1751:Hardware
1620:Nintendo
1519:June 11,
1515:. Kotaku
1468:July 29,
1439:June 26,
1380:July 27,
1319:Atari HQ
1224:GameSpot
1166:Archived
1092:July 29,
952:Japanese
912:See also
616:Game Boy
569:US$ 3.25
365:Nintendo
154:Nintendo
2621:PICA200
2469:Joy-Con
2268:Add-ons
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