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.

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.

Some NES titles were developed by companies who had licensed their title from a different arcade manufacturer.

is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ), and is the third game in the Super Mario series.

is a 1992 tile-matching puzzle video game developed by Bullet-Proof Software for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, and Super NES video game consoles.

Nintendo obtained the licenses for the 8-bit ( NES and Game Boy ) versions of Hermetica, and developed the game into Yoshi's Cookie, which now featured Mario characters.

A version for the NES was also developed and published.

The series was mildly successful and spawned six episode novelisations by John Peel writing as John Vincent, a 12-issue comic book series by Marvel Comics published in 1992, as well as a video game developed by Eurocom for the NES and Gray Matter for the SNES in 1991.

Atari published the versions Xenophobe for its systems ( the 7800 and XE versions were developed by BlueSky software, and the Lynx version was developed by Epyx ) while Sunsoft ported it to the NES.

It was originally developed for Atari 8-bit computers in 1983, but was later ported to several other systems of the day, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Amiga, IBM PC, Apple Macintosh, PC-88, and NES.

The European version of the NES port, developed by Ocean, is more faithful to the Arcade version, whereas the Japanese and North American versions have original level designs and story intermissions.

The Game Boy and NES were developed under a similar philosophy.

An NES version was developed by Beam Software but it was never released.

Backup units for NES, SNES, Neo-Geo, Neo Geo Pocket, Sega Genesis, Game Boy and N64 were developed and produced by Bung.

It was later ported to the NES, developed by Micronics.

* Bases Loaded ( NES version developed by TOSE )

* City Connection ( NES developed by Hect )

* Urusei Yatsura: Lum no Wedding Bell ( NES version developed by TOSE )

Technōs also released two arcade sequels to Double Dragon: Double Dragon II: The Revenge in 1988 and Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone in 1990 ( the latter was developed by an external development team at East Technology ), and produced the respective NES versions of those games, as well as Super Double Dragon in 1992, an original installment for the Super NES.

American Technōs also published Super Bowling ( developed by Athena ) and Super Pinball: Behind the Mask ( developed by Meldac / KAZe ) for the Super NES and the helicopter game Strike Point for the PlayStation.

The Software Toolworks both developed and published the MS-DOS and Super NES versions in 1993, while the NES version was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Nintendo in 1994.