While the creator of the NES version would be restricted from making a competitive version of an NES game, the original arcade copyright holder was not precluded from licensing out rights for a home version of an arcade game to multiple systems.

On December 31, 2007, the NES version of Bubble Bobble was released on Nintendo's Virtual Console service for the Wii.

Prior to the NES version, Nintendo also made a Duck Hunt game based on Laser Clay Shooting System released in 1976.

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Due to concerns from Nintendo of America, the Super NES version was modified to not include any swastikas or Nazi references ; furthermore, blood was replaced with sweat to make the game seem less violent, and the attack dogs in the game were replaced by giant mutant rats.

The Super NES version was not as successful as the PC version.

In February and July 1987, respectively, a cartridge-based version of Kid Icarus was published for the NES in Europe and North America.

Unlike the FDS version, which saves the player's progress on the Disk Card, the NES release uses a password system to return to a game after the console was turned off.

It also uses the same save system as the Famicom Disk System version does, as opposed to the Password system from the original NES version.

The 3D Classics version also utilizes the Famicom Disk System's music and sound effects ( utilizing the extra sound channel not available in the NES version ).

He was dissatisfied with the emulation of the game, as the Virtual Console release preserves the slowdown problems of the original NES version, but has its cheat codes removed.

A known side effect of this policy was the Sega Genesis version of Mortal Kombat selling over double the number of the Super NES version, mainly because Nintendo had forced publisher Acclaim to recolor the red blood to look like white sweat and replace some of the more gory graphics in its release of the game, making it non-violent.

Nintendo allowed the Super NES version of Mortal Kombat II to ship uncensored the following year with a content warning on the packaging.

For example, Konami was forced to remove all references to cigarettes in the 2000 Game Boy Color game Metal Gear Solid ( although the previous NES version of Metal Gear and the subsequent GameCube game Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes both included such references, as did Wii title MadWorld ), and maiming and blood were removed from the Nintendo 64 port of Cruis ' n USA.

The NES version was ported twice to the Game Boy Advance: first in 2004 as one of thirty games in the Classic NES Series ( known as the Famicom Mini Series in Japan ), then bundled with a version of the Puzzle League series in 2005 under the title Dr. Mario & Puzzle League.

Once the more powerful Super NES was released, Miyamoto was finally able to implement Yoshi into the series, putting him into the video game Super Mario World.

Although he was introduced on the SNES in 1990, Yoshi was also the star of two self-titled games for the original NES released in ' 92 and ' 93: Yoshi and Yoshi's Cookie, respectively.

In the NES version, Bowser also kidnaps Yoshi, who is freed upon completing the game.

Third party development for the 7800 was limited as most game companies were locked into exclusive agreements with Nintendo for the NES.

In the Action Set configuration of the NES in the late 1980s, Duck Hunt was included with Super Mario Bros ..

The game was developed for the Family Computer Disk System ( FDS ) because the peripheral's Disk Card media allowed for three times the storage capacity of the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ) console's cartridges.

Kid Icarus was included in IGNs lists of the top 100 NES games and the top 100 games of all time ; it came in 20th and 84th place, respectively.

One of their first video games was the 1990 NES game titled Circus Caper.

Since 1996, when Avon was abolished, Bath has been the principal centre of the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset ( B & NES ).

The game was either ported, remade, or has had a sequel on every Nintendo home console since the NES as well as most portable consoles, including a re-release in 2004 on the Game Boy Advance as part of the Classic NES Series.

Eurogamer said the game was " still as playable, addictive and maddening as it was back in 1990 " but criticized Nintendo for re-releasing classic games as standalone titles in the Classic NES Series instead of as a compilation, like Atari's Atari Anthology or Midway's Midway Arcade Treasures.

An NES game based on his life was released in 1992 called " Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston ".

The video-game industry was revitalized a few years later, mostly due to the widespread success of the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ), which was released in North America in and had become extremely popular by.

Of the original 8 and 16 bit ports, the NES and Game Boy ones were made by Taito themselves.

He thought that it had " aged in as timeless a manner as many other first-party Nintendo games from the NES era ", and described Kid Icarus as " one of those games that made a lot more sense back in the ' 80s, accompanied by a tips and tricks strategy sheet ".

It also criticizes the Mario Bros. ports in general, saying that this is just one of many ports that have been made of it throughout Nintendo's history. IGN complimented the Virtual Console version's gameplay, though even it was critical of Nintendo's decision to release an " inferior " NES port on the Virtual Console .".

All significant console manufacturers since Nintendo with its NES ( 1985 ) have monopolized the manufacture of every game made for their console, and have required all publishers to pay a royalty for every game so manufactured.

The design of the Game Genie also made it very difficult to insert into a newer top-loading NES.

The Famicom version of the Zapper, made for the game Wild Gunman, resembled a revolver-style handgun, but the North American version resembled a futuristic science fiction ray gun with a colour scheme matching the NES.

The NES Lockout was a combination lock device made by SafeCare Products, Inc. and Master Lock that featured a " Self-Setting " combination that attached to the open bay of a front-loading NES via a hole under the control deck directly below the chamber lid which enabled the lock to grab the console like a vise to prevent removal.

A platformer adaptation of the game was also made for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES called Dragon's Lair.

" Mega Man 4 made it into IGN's " Top 100 NES Games " list at number 95, with staff writer Matt Casamassina praising its attempt at better narrative and an essentially similar experience to the first three Mega Man games.

Yoshi's Safari, known in Japan as is a video game made for the Super NES in 1993.

The theme song also made its way into the arcade and NES RoboCop video games.

" Although the NES dominated the market in Japan and North America, Sega's Master System made large inroads in Europe, Oceania and Brazil, where the NES was never able to break its grip.

After the release of the NES version of Metal Gear in North America, Konami commissioned the development of a sequel for the NES, Snake's Revenge ( a game made specifically with the American market in mind ), without the consent of Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima.

Finally, in 2011, the NES version was made available on the Wii Virtual Console service in both Japan and North America, and the PlayStation Network in Japan.

Hundreds of unlicensed clones have been made available since the height of the NES popularity in the late 1980s.

In India various NES clones made their appearance in stores, like the Terminator console which was also very popular in Eastern European countries.

The game was produced as a sequel to the NES version of the original Metal Gear, made specifically for the North American and PAL market following the success of the first NES game.

The NES version of Ghosts ' n Goblins was rated the 129th best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Power's Top 200 Games list .< ref name =" NP Top 200 ">

San helped develop the first 3D graphics accelerator known as the Super FX chip that made Star Fox possible on the Super NES.