Nintendo Forever Abandons Famicom

By Brian Ashcraft on October 17, 2007 at 5:00 PM

famiconsuperpotato.jpg SEGA isn’t the only company disowning vintage consoles. Starting October this Halloween, Nintendo Co., Ltd. will no longer provide hardware support for the Famicom. The console was originally launched in Japan back in 1983, and Nintendo continued to service the machine all these years. With the rise of the Virtual Console and original Famicom parts becoming harder and harder to locate, Nintendo had decided cease repairs. What’s more, Nintendo Co., Ltd. will no longer repair the Super Famicom, the Nintendo 64, the Gameboy and the Gameboy Pocket. Virtual Console or not, this strikes me as sad.
No more support [IT Media via Arcade Renaissance]

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