The March 1985 issue of Electronic Games magazine stated that "the videogame market in America has virtually disappeared" and that "this could be a miscalculation on Nintendo's part". It was only provided for use in World of Nintendo boutiques as part of the Nintendo World Class Service program.

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To combat unlicensed games, Nintendo of America threatened retailers who sold them with losing their supply of licensed games, and multiple revisions were made to the NES PCBs to prevent unlicensed games from working.In the following year, historic remains of a Yayoi period village were discovered in the construction site. Nintendo officially referred to such chips as "memory management controllers" (MMC); they were originally described as "multi-memory controllers" in their patents. However, Atari discovered at that show that its competitor Coleco was illegally demonstrating its Coleco Adam computer with Nintendo's Donkey Kong game. By 2016, more than 101million Wii consoles had been sold worldwide, [144] making it the most successful console of its generation, a distinction that Nintendo had not achieved since the 1990s with the Super NES.

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Since then, both Nintendo and other development companies have produced and distributed an extensive catalog of video games for Nintendo's consoles. On August 14, 1995, Nintendo discontinued the Nintendo Entertainment System in both North America and Europe. For its complete North American release, the Nintendo Entertainment System was progressively released over the ensuing years in several different bundles, beginning with the Deluxe Set, the Basic Set, the Action Set, and the Power Set.In 2001, two new Nintendo consoles were introduced: the Game Boy Advance, which was designed by Gwénaël Nicolas with stylistic departure from its predecessors, [113] [114] and the GameCube. Before the NES and Famicom, Nintendo was known as a moderately successful Japanese toy and playing card manufacturer, but the consoles' popularity helped the company grow into an internationally recognized name almost synonymous with video games as Atari had been, [156] and set the stage for Japanese dominance of the video game industry.