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Nintendo · Console family

Famicom Disk System

A disk-drive add-on enabled larger games, save data, and inexpensive rewritable releases.

Documented hardware recordA source-linked factual history appears below. Undocumented development, regional, and package details are left unclaimed.

Mounted beneath the Famicom, the Disk System used proprietary double-sided disks. It hosted early versions of The Legend of Zelda and Metroid and supported Nintendo’s in-store Disk Writer network.

Released
1986 · Exact day not documented
Platform / family
Famicom add-on
Format / type
Rewritable floppy disk
Region
Japan
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Documented item history

Release and collector context

Source-linked facts

Famicom Disk System is a Nintendo hardware family documented for Japan, with a release recorded as 1986 (the exact day and month are not documented). The catalog identifies it as Famicom add-on hardware using Rewritable floppy disk. PLAYBACK connects 1 documented hardware variant to this family, including Famicom Disk System.

Research status
Structured source record
01

Release context

The documented release is 1986 (the exact day and month are not documented) for Japan on Famicom add-on. Date precision is preserved exactly: the archive does not invent a day when the source records only a month or year.

02

Regional differences

This record is scoped to Japan. The linked structured source does not document a separate regional title or package difference, so PLAYBACK does not infer one.

03

Physical packaging

The physical format is documented as Rewritable floppy disk. The current structured source does not enumerate every insert, manual, sleeve, or bonus item, so no unverified contents are claimed.

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Editions and revisions

1 hardware configurations are linked to this family: Famicom Disk System.

Research sources

  1. commons.wikimedia.org — catalog record ↗