Due to the increasing difficulty of finding repair parts and the fact that old Famicom games are making their way to the Wii’s Virtual Console in their original forms, Nintendo has decided to abandon their repair service program for the aging Famicom effective after this month.
The Famicom game system launched to the Japanese market in 1983, enjoying phenomenal success worldwide within mere years of its release (internationally as the Nintendo Entertainment System). Production of the redesigned Famicom continued through October 2003, but the systems remain available in Japanese stores today.
In addition to the Famicom, Nintendo Co., Ltd. will end repair services for the Super Famicom, Nintendo 64, Game Boy, and Game Boy Pocket in Japan. For those that this might affect, it’s time to put your old systems into preservation and enjoy those old games on the VC (and your old GB games on your Famicom-edition GBA SP).
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