Nominations for this core are closed.
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Following a series of arcade game successes in the early 1980s, Nintendo made plans to create a cartridge-based console called the Family Computer, or Famicom. Masayuki Uemura designed the system. The console's hardware was largely based on arcade video games, particularly the hardware for Namco's Galaxian (1979) and Nintendo's Radar Scope (1980) and Donkey Kong (1981), with the goal of matching their powerful sprite and scrolling capabilities in a home system. Original plans called for an advanced 16-bit system which would function as a full-fledged computer with a keyboard and floppy disk drive, but Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi rejected this and instead decided to go for a cheaper, more conventional cartridge-based game console as he believed that features such as keyboards and disks were intimidating to non-technophiles.
Please make your nominations (up to three) for games to add to our first list, and please second ALL the nominated games you'd be interested in playing so we can weight those games more favorably in the randomizer.
When two weeks have passed, we will again make a game selection at random and begin playing.
Nominated games:
Silver Surfer *
Fire 'n' Ice *
Journey to Silius *
Metal Storm *
Nominations for this core are closed.
