Platform archive · Nintendo
Famicom Disk System
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.
Hardware launch era1986
Physical games197
Documented packages197
Hardware variants1
NintendoLaunch information
The platform’s opening chapter
- Hardware era
- 1986
- Launch region
- Japan
- Primary physical format
- Rewritable floppy disk
- First documented physical release
- February 21, 1986
- Latest documented physical release
- December 22, 1992
- Special editions and variants
- 0
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