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.

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.

Many of these titles were subsequently ported to cartridge format and released for the NES a year or two later, with saving implemented with password resume or battery-backed memory.

A console port on the NES was also popular, and the game was also ported for 16-bit computers Amiga, Atari ST, Apple II and IBM PC.

The song " Situation " was used in the 1990 TV movie Exile and was also used in a Nintendo commercial highlighting the classic edition of the Game Boy Advance SP and the classic NES games ported to it.

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.

The game was ported to the Commodore 64 ( twice ) in 1987, the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum in 1988, the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ) in 1989, and the Game Boy Color in 1999.

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.

Highlights from this period include Mad Crash ( 1984 ), Alpha Mission ( 1985 ), and Athena ( 1986 ), a game that gained a large following when it was ported to the NES in 1987.

Ikari Warriors was so popular that it was eventually licensed and ported to the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, ZX Spectrum and NES.

Speedball was released in November 1988 for the Atari ST and ported to the Amiga, PC ( DOS ), Commodore 64 and the Sega Master System ; it was also for the NES as KlashBall.

It was originally released for the Apple II, and was also ported to the Commodore 64, Apple IIgs, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Apple Macintosh, and NES platforms.

It was eventually ported to virtually every contemporary home computer system and even to the NES console.

Final Fight was ported to various platforms, such as the Super NES and Mega-CD, since its original coin-op release.

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

It was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ) by Konami, and published by Ultra Games.

Due to an additional soundchip that the Disk System has, when Nintendo ported Zelda II over to the NES they had to eliminate some musical elements, especially from the title screen.

Due to this game's success, it was ported to several home computers and consoles: Apple II, Atari 2600, BBC Micro, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Intellivision, Mattel Aquarius, MSX, NES, and TI-99 / 4A.

The game was developed by Capcom for the NES in 1992 and was ported to the Game Boy in 1993.

The NES version was ported to mobile phones in 2004 and the North American Wii Virtual Console on March 12, 2007.

The game was later ported to the NES ( developed by Micronics ), MSX, NEC PC-8801, Windows Mobile Professional, and Game Boy Color.

Boulder Dash, originally released in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers, is a series of computer games released for the Apple II, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision home computers, and later ported to the NES, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, PC, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and many other platforms.

The company's games were also licensed to be ported to several video game consoles, such as the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ) and the SEGA Master System.