The 10 000 ¥ bar is outdated, but it remains the cheapest machine of the time, and the most powerful bonus on the market. Masayuki Uemura and his team design the system by demonstrating ingenuity and saving on the smallest detail to meet the requirements of the President.Īfter two years of work, she went out to Japan on Jfor 14 800 ¥, accompanied by three portals of Nintendo's bestselling arcade games: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. In addition, it should cost less than 10 000 ¥. At that time, President Hiroshi Yamauchi told his employees that he wanted a console whose performance would be such that competition could neither copy nor match it for at least three years. Its design starts in 1981 under the name Code Young computer. For the sake of economy, the first Famicom was red because the red plastic was the cheapest of all at the time.
After meeting the success with a series of arcade games in the early 1980, Nintendo planned as of November 1981 the production of an interchangeable cartridge lounge console, a device not included on the Color TV Game.