* 1983 – Diora Baird, American actress and model

* 1983 – Mehdi Ballouchy, Moroccan footballer

* 1983 – Eliza Coupe, American actress

* 1983 – Jerome Kaino, New Zealand rugby player

* 1983 – Mitsuru Nagata, Japanese footballer

* 1983 – Remi Nicole, English singer-songwriter and actress

* 1983 – Jade Seah, Singaporean model and actress

* 1983 – Dash Shaw, American writer and artist

* 1983 – Bobbi Starr, American porn actress

* 1983 – James Wade, English darts player

* 1983 – Katie Weatherston, Canadian hockey player

* 1983 – Jelena Dokić, Serbian-Australian tennis player

* 1983 – Genta Ismajli, a Kosovan-Albanian singer

* 1983 – Anthony Sedlak, Canadian chef ( d. 2012 )

* 1983 – Dwayne Smith, Indian cricketer

* 1897 – Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter ( d. 1983 )

* 1910 – Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu poet and lyricist ( d. 1983 )

* 1983 – Tatjana Hüfner, German luger

* 1983 – Marina Tomić, Slovenian athlete

* 1983 – Troy Williamson, American football player

* 1904 – Norah Lofts, English author ( d. 1983 )

* 1983 – Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor

* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American writer and educator ( d. 1983 )

* 1983 – Annevig Schelde Ebbe, Danish actress

* 1983 – Neil Harvey, English-Barbadian footballer

Nintendo finally decided in 1985 to release its Famicom ( released in 1983 in Japan ) in the United States under the name Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ).

is an arcade game published and developed by Nintendo in 1983.

* Mario Bros, released in 1983 by Nintendo

In 1985, Nintendo started marketing the Famicom abroad under the name the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ) to capitalize on the 1983 video game crash that devastated Atari, Inc.

was released with the intention of portraying the Nintendo Entertainment System as something novel in order to alleviate retail fears following the video game crash of 1983.

However, more notable was the Japanese release of the Famicom in 1983 which was later released in the US as the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985.

In the history of computer and video games, the third generation ( sometimes referred to as the 8-bit era ) began on July 15, 1983, with the Japanese release of both the Nintendo Family Computer ( later known as the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, in the rest of the world ) and Sega SG-1000.

Also, the music from Punchout ( 1987 ) for the Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System, borrowed some music and sound effects from the 1983 Famicom version of Stargate ( later released as Defender II in 1988 by Hal for the Nintendo Entertainment System ).

On July 15, 1983, along with Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior, Popeye was one of the first three games released for Nintendo's Family Computer game console, known outside of Japan as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

is a 1983 – 84 boxing arcade game by Nintendo.

It was released in 1983 when Nintendo was making several coin-operated arcade machines.

The game was ported to Nintendo's Family Computer ( Famicom ) console in 1983 as one of the system's three launch titles ; the same version was a launch title for the Famicom's North American version, the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ).

During the 8-bit era, Bokosuka Wars, a computer game developed by Koji Sumii for the Sharp X1 in 1983 and ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ) by ASCII in 1985, was responsible for laying the foundations for the tactical RPG genre, or " simulation RPG " genre as it is known in Japan, with its blend of role-playing and strategy game elements.

Ports of the game have also been released on Atari 2600 and Intellivision in 1983, the ColecoVision and Commodore 64 in 1984, and the for the Nintendo Entertainment System ( published by Vic Tokai ) in 1988.

According to these sources, Ikegami proceeded to sue Nintendo for unauthorized duplication of the Donkey Kong program code for the latter's creation of Donkey Kong Junior ( 1983, Tokyo District Court ), but it was not until 1989 that the Tokyo High Court gave a verdict that acknowledged the originality of program code.

Pinball is a 1983 arcade game created by Nintendo.

Nintendo's 8-bit video game console, the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ), known as the, or in Japan, was introduced after the video game crash of 1983, and was instrumental in revitalizing the industry.

Launching on July 15, 1983, the Nintendo Family Computer ( commonly known by the Japanese-English term Famicom ) was an 8-bit console using interchangeable cartridges.

" Though the two companies reached a tentative agreement, with final contract papers to be signed at the 1983 Summer Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ), Atari refused to sign at the last minute, after seeing Coleco, one of its main competitors in the market at that time, demonstrating a prototype of Donkey Kong for its forthcoming Coleco Adam home computer system Although the game had been originally produced for the ColecoVision and could thus automatically be played on the backwards compatible Adam computer, Atari took the demonstration as a sign that Nintendo was also dealing with Coleco.

It was released in 1983 for the Family Computer in Japan and then for the Nintendo Entertainment System two years later in North America and PAL regions.