is there a list of all released nintendo consoles?

[phreak97]

This thread started out as a request for a list which doesnt seem to exist, so we've started making one.. Here's what I've got so far, made as more of a checklist, A Black Falcon has made a timeline version which you can see a bit further down:)

All converted to notepad happiness:D


License Name Media Format Video Format Country of Origin phreak97 has got?

Fami/NES

Nintendo Famicom Famicom NTSC Japan Yes
Nintendo AV Famicom Famicom NTSC Japan Yes
Nintendo Famicom Famicom PAL Hong Kong No
Sharp Twin Famicom Famicom, Disk System NTSC Japan No
Nintendo NES NES NTSC Usa Yes
Nintendo NES NES PAL Europe Yes
Nintendo NES Top Loader NES NTSC Usa No
Nintendo NES Top Loader NES NTSC Europe No
Hyundai Comboy NES NES NTSC Korea No
Sharp Famicom Titler Famicom NTSC Japan No


SFC/SNES

Nintendo Super Famicom Super Famicom NTSC Japan Yes
Nintendo Super Famicom Jr. Super Famicom NTSC Japan No
Hyundai Super Comboy Super Famicom NTSC Korea No
Nintendo SNES SNES NTSC Usa Yes
Nintendo SNES Jr. SNES NTSC Usa No
Nintendo SNES SNES PAL Europe Yes

N64

Nintendo Nintendo64 Nintendo64 NTSC Japan No
Nintendo Nintendo64 Nintendo64 NTSC Usa No
Nintendo Nintendo64 Nintendo64 PAL Europe Yes
Hyundai Comboy64 Nintendo64 NTSC Korea No
iQue iQue Custom Nintendo64 PAL? Hong Kong No

Gamecube

Nintendo Gamecube Gamecube NTSC Japan No
Nintendo Gamecube Gamecube NTSC Usa No
Nintendo Gamecube Gamecube PAL Europe Yes
Panasonic Q Gamecube NTSC Japan No

Wii

Nintendo Wii Wii NTSC Usa No
Nintendo Wii Wii NTSC Japan No
Nintendo Wii Wii PAL Europe No

Game Boy

Nintendo Game Boy Game Boy Inbuilt Display Worldwide Yes
Nintendo Game Boy Pocket Game Boy Inbuilt Display Worldwide Yes
Nintendo Game Boy Light Game Boy Inbuilt Display Japan No
Nintendo Game Boy Color GBC, Game Boy Inbuilt Display Worldwide Yes
Nintendo GBA GBA, GBC, GB Inbuilt Display Worldwide Yes
iQue GBA GBA, GBC, GB Inbuilt Display Hong Kong No
Nintendo GBA SP GBA, GBC, GB Inbuilt Display Worldwide Yes
iQue GBA SP GBA, GBC, GB Inbuilt Display Hong Kong No
Nintendo GBA SP Brighter Screen GBA, GBC, GB Inbuilt Display Worldwide No
Nintendo Game Boy Micro GBA Inbuilt Display Worldwide Yes

DS

Nintendo DS DS, GBA Inbuilt Display Worldwide Yes
iQue DS DS, GBA Inbuilt Display Hong Kong No
Nintendo DS Lite DS, GBA Inbuilt Display Worldwide Yes
iQue DS Lite DS, GBA Inbuilt Display Hong Kong No
Nintendo DSi DS Inbuilt Display Worldwide No
iQue DSi DS Inbuilt Display Hong Kong No
Nintendo DSi LL DS Inbuilt Display Coming soon No

Others

Nintendo Pokemon Mini Pokemon Mini Inbuilt Display Worldwide No
Nintendo Virtual Boy Virtual Boy Inbuilt Display Usa, Japan Yes

My definition of a console is a publicly sold system which has removable games and did not include an alphabetical keyboard in the box with the console.

Hotel units, store displays, and prototypes do not count for this.

If you've got any suggestions yell out:)

Also if you know how to increase the horizontal width of the code box, that'd be handy to know too.

Ps. my original first post was a request for a list of all nintendo consoles, which is why the replies dont suit..

[rpepper9]

What do you mean by "all consoles"? Like Famicom, Nintendo, Super Famicom, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii? And then the Gameboy line of GameBoy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Pocket, etc...

Or are you looking for a list of every system like all the odd stuff that was released like the Pokomon N64, all the odd multi cart hotel systems, all the hotel systems with NES built into the TV? All the variations of each and every system for each and every region could be quite a large collection.

I bet we could make a list in this thread. Keep adding to the (very basic) list I have started.

[Swamperon]

Well, a very basic list would be:

Console:
Nes
Snes
N64
Gamecube
Wii

Handheld:
Game & Watch series
Virtual Boy
Gameboy
Gameboy Pocket
Gameboy Light
Gameboy Play it Loud!
Gameboy Colour
Gameboy Advance
Gameboy SP
Gameboy Micro
Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS Lite
Nintendo DSi
Nintendo DS LL

And then if you include special editions, colour variations, add ons etc the list grows exponentially.

[buzz_n64]

60s Ultra Machine, Love Tester and the Kousenjuu series of light gun games.

1973 Laser Clay Shooting System

1977 Color TV Game

[phreak97]

I know all the console generations already, I want a list of the all of them and all the versions of them, like:

Famicom (PAL and NTSC)
AV Famicom
Twin Famicom
NES (PAL and NTSC)
Top Loader (PAL and NTSC)

etc.. every version of every console and what region it is from..

[skaar]

I like this thread.

[Player-2]

Be careful.....you may be biting off a very big chunk here!!
I collect only 72-pin NES consoles from around the world, and I have over forty so far. The number of consoles available worldwide is unbelievable, since most are unliscensed and/or pirates. Even if you say something like "no pirates", then you still have variations and oddities (liscensed) that can play Nintendo carts/cds .
You are really gonna have to define your search.....or be prepared for one helluva an education. Good Luck!

[A Black Falcon]

Alright, I made a list... what's missing from this? :)

Not counting system color changes/special edition colors, just actual new models. Not counting motherboard/internal revisions within one case model. Modems and such don't count, just things that actually have games on them. Not listing accessories, even if games require them (namely the Power Pad, DK Bongos, N64 DDR Pad (Japan only), GC DDR Pad, GC Microphone, Wii Balance Board, and Wii Motion Plus). No pirate systems.

An asterisk (*) marks systems which are not videogame consoles/handhelds because they do not have interchangeable games, but are on the list anyway because they are videogames of some kind.

1974
Magnavox Odyssey - Japan (distribution only)

1975
*First Nintendo arcade game

1977
*Nintendo Color TV Game line (Nintendo's Home Pong clone) - Japan

1980
*Game & Watch line starts - Japan, later US, Europe as well

1983
Nintendo Family Computer (aka Famicom) (Japanese NES) - Japan

1984
Famicom Basic Keyboard (Famicom addon)
Famicom Data Recorder (addon for Famicom Basic Keyboard) - Japan)

1985
NES - US (test marketing)

1986
NES - Canada, PAL-B (France, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, West Germany) (also wide US release is this year)
Famicom Disk System (Famicom addon) - Japan
Sharp Twin Famicom (licensed clone Famicom plus Disk System) - Japan
Nintendo PlayChoice - US (arcade version of the NES which uses special plug-in PCB versions of NES games)

198? (mid '80s releases but specific year for each one unknown)
*NES Demo Station (http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/odd/scans/demounit.html) (can perhaps switch chips on the circuit board to change games, but other than that it's preset)
NES M82 Demo Unit (http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/nes/history/demo_unit.html) (NES demo system which can hold 15 games with a time limiter. Uses normal NES carts, plays on a TV.)

19?? (probably mid to late '80s, perhaps early '90s? I have no idea)
Hyundai Comboy - South Korea (South Korean version of the Famicom/NES, uses NES-shaped system and carts)

1987
NES - PAL-A (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Italy) (note -- PAL-A and PAL-B NES games and systems are incompatible. Non-copy protected systems such as the NES 2 should be able to play both types though.)

1989
Game Boy - US, Japan

1990
Super Famicom (Super NES) - Japan

1991
Super Nintendo - US
Nintendo Super System - US (arcade version of the SNES which plays special plug-in PCB versions of certain SNES games)

199? (unknown year in early/mid '90s)
Hyundai Super Comboy - South Korea (South Korean version of the Super Famicom, uses Super Famicom system and cart shapes)

1992
Super Nintendo - Europe/PAL

1993
AV Family Computer (redesigned Famicom) - Japan
NES 2 (redesigned NES) - US (these two systems have very similar designs, but do have shape and output differences so they are not the same -- the AV Famicom doesn't have the bump over the cart port and uses the standard SNES/N64/GC Nintendo AV output jack and the Famicom addon port, while the NES 2 is RF output only and has the bump and no Famicom addon port of course.)

1994
Super Game Boy (play Game Boy games on a Super Nintendo) - Japan, US, Europe

1995
Virtual Boy - US, Japan
Satellaview (Super Famicom addon) - Japan

199?
Nintendo Power cartridge for Game Boy - Japan (rewritable flash memory carridge that you could get games written on to at stores or direct via Nintendo. Rewrite service ran until 2007. I can't find the release year, but it's most likely somewhere between 1995 and 1997.)
Nintendo Power cartridge for Super Famicom - Japan (same as above but for the SFC. The two came out at the same time.)

1996
Game Boy Pocket (redesigned Game Boy) - Japan, US, Europe
Nintendo 64 - Japan, US

1997
Nintendo 64 - Europe
Super Famicom Jr. (redesigned Super Famicom) - Japan
SNES 2 (recolored Super Famicom Jr.) - US (apart from the color, these two are the same.)

1998
Game Boy Light - Japan
Super Game Boy 2 (redesigned Super Game Boy with Link Cable port added and with a special background in Tetris DX) - Japan
Game Boy Color - Japan, US, Europe

1999
Nintendo 64DD (Nintendo 64 addon) - Japan

2001
Game Boy Advance - Japan, US, Europe
Gamecube - Japan, US
Card-E Reader (Nintendo e-Reader)
Panasonic Q (licensed Gamecube with DVD playback) - Japan
Pokemon Mini (handheld) - US, Japan

2002
Gamecube - Europe
Pokemon Mini - Europe

2003
E-Reader (Game Boy Advance addon) - Japan, US
Game Boy Advance SP (redesigned Game Boy Advance) - Japan, US, Europe/PAL
Game Boy Player (Gamecube addon that plays Game Boy, GBC, and GBA games) - Japan, US, Europe
iQue Player - China (digital-download-only system that plays N64 games)

2004
Nintendo DS - Japan, US
iQue Game Boy Advance - China (Nintendo releases its handhelds in China through the iQue company, but apart from the original iQue the systems are the same as the regular Nintendo systems of the same name.
iQue Game Boy Advance SP - China

2005
Nintendo DS - Europe/PAL
Game Boy micro (redesigned Game Boy Advance with no GB/GBC backwards compatibility) - Japan, US, Europe
iQue Game Boy micro - China
iQue DS - China

2006
Nintendo DS Lite (redesigned Nintendo DS) - Japan, US, Europe/PAL
Wii - US, Japan, Europe

2008
iQue DS Lite - China
Nintendo DSi - Japan

2009
Nintendo DSi - US, Europe
Nintendo DSi LL - Japan
iQue DSi - China

2010 (announced)
Nintendo DSi LL - US, Europe

[Player-2]

A simple "off the top of my head" NES addition:

NES M82 player
NES/snes test unit
Korean Comboy (original liscensed)
Secam France unit
NES cutout console test unit
Sachen 72-pin console
Europe has 1/2 dozen vintage clones
Brazil has more than that (the mini NES is so cool)

There is more....and none of this is Famicom


There are so many things that play NES.....you will really have to cull your defintion of "machine" to get a list to fit your search.

[A Black Falcon]

A simple "off the top of my head" NES addition:

NES M82 player
NES/snes test unit
Korean Comboy (original liscensed)
Secam France unit
NES cutout console test unit
Sachen 72-pin console
Europe has 1/2 dozen vintage clones
Brazil has more than that (the mini NES is so cool)

There is more....and none of this is Famicom


There are so many things that play NES.....you will really have to cull your defintion of "machine" to get a list to fit your search.

Unreleased test systems and unlicensed clones really don't count in a list like this though, they're something different... and as for the French SECAM unit I'd think that would be included in PAL-B, because that's where Nintendo put it. To Nintendo SECAM wasn't separate from PAL-B.

The official Asian and Hong Kong releases of the NES and other systems could be added to my list, though... oh, and I forgot the iQue line.

Things like listing all of Nintendo's Game & Watch, Color TV Game, and Arcade releases separately instead of just listing the first year for each would probably be overdoing it, but at least listing all the years titles in those lines were released in would be nice, though for the Game & Watch and arcade lines that'd take a little while. The Nintendo Versus System (arcade version of the NES with special versions of games for it) could also be included separately from the rest of their arcade stuff perhaps, it was different from the rest of their arcade lineup for sure... same for the similar SNES arcade system that had only a couple of games. The PlayChoice-10 could perhaps be listed as well.

Oh, and the M82 probably could be listed, yeah. That appears to be official, and just because it was used for demo stations only doesn't mean it shouldn't be on the list. :)

[Player-2]

Playchoice doesn't play NES carts....just NES games on another style cart.
The test system and the cutout consoles were liscensed and used in the USA and Europe....and both play NES carts.
M82 is a glorified NES unit (liscensed).
My point was only to illuminate that the inventory of "consoles that play Nintendo carts" is huge. I even have a couple of units that are old handheld NES players (not the new clones) from around the world.
So I would assume that the other categories of Worldwide Nintendo items would also be huge and difficult to collect....without culling most of the oddities out. But I doubt anyone is searching for just the basics.
There is a bunch.......

[PSony]

China has the iQue and iQue DS, as well as their variants of GBA's.

[A Black Falcon]

Playchoice doesn't play NES carts....just NES games on another style cart.
The test system and the cutout consoles were liscensed and used in the USA and Europe....and both play NES carts.
M82 is a glorified NES unit (liscensed).
My point was only to illuminate that the inventory of "consoles that play Nintendo carts" is huge. I even have a couple of units that are old handheld NES players (not the new clones) from around the world.
So I would assume that the other categories of Worldwide Nintendo items would also be huge and difficult to collect....without culling most of the oddities out. But I doubt anyone is searching for just the basics.
There is a bunch.......

I would not consider a clone system to be a "released Nintendo console". It is a clone.

I know the PlayChoice doesn't play NES games... but it does use interchangeable circuit boards, so that should count for something.

[A Black Falcon]

Added to the list above: Pokemon Mini, iQue Player, Panasonic Q, Nintendo PlayChoice, Nintendo Super System, M82 Player, Hyundai Comboy, Hyundai Super Comboy, iQue Game Boy Advance, iQue Game Boy Advance SP, iQue DS, iQue DS Lite, iQue DSi

[phreak97]

I reckon I'll make my own database from the info here plus what I can find on the net:)
I do not count clones, and for now licensed products will be second priority.

Funnily enough I already have a playchoice 10, but I dont count that. my definition of a console is a video game system released in commercial stores or sold to the public online, and does not include an alphabetical keyboard with the base unit. otherwise it's a computer, which I wont collect. (an optional keyboard released later or as an extra does not make it a computer)

I dont think I'm taking on more than I expected, I've been collecting for eight years after all, a complete collection of anything shouldnt be able to be bought in a week.

[phreak97]

I've compiled a list so far, theres been no tidying, so theyre not in any particular order..
Just realised I dont have anywhere to upload it to.. it's in xml format.
any suggestions?

can anyone confirm without a doubt that the whole handheld line from gba to dsi was released under the iQue name?

also, at this stage I am excluding all addon consoles (satellaview, disk system etc.) and anything that was not sold to the public. (demo stations, arcade games etc.)
I'll probably get into the addon consoles eventually, but that will be a seperate list.

A Black Falcon,
Your list is formatted a hell of alot better than mine, maybe we should work together a bit more closely:P

[johndarkness]

You may visit this page (http://kaori30.com/). The guy have a lot of nintendo consoles and all the editions and stuff.

[jb143]

Just realised I dont have anywhere to upload it to.. it's in xml format.
any suggestions?



I've used www.drop.io for things like this. You don't need to register or anything like that, just choose a name for your drop and upload all the files you want.

[A Black Falcon]

I've compiled a list so far, theres been no tidying, so theyre not in any particular order..
Just realised I dont have anywhere to upload it to.. it's in xml format.
any suggestions?

can anyone confirm without a doubt that the whole handheld line from gba to dsi was released under the iQue name?

also, at this stage I am excluding all addon consoles (satellaview, disk system etc.) and anything that was not sold to the public. (demo stations, arcade games etc.)
I'll probably get into the addon consoles eventually, but that will be a seperate list.

A Black Falcon,
Your list is formatted a hell of alot better than mine, maybe we should work together a bit more closely:P

I didn't just trust that the iQue GBA, GBA SP, DS, DS Lite, and DSi exist, I did search around the internet to find references to them on Nintendo sites... I had to to find which years they came out in.

If you want some further proof, though, how about the official iQue website with product line listing? :)

http://www.ique.com/tewaswork_product.htm

As for your list, how is it different from mine? In contents, I mean. Just removing the demo stations and addons? I'd say they definitely do count, with a note that they're addons as I did... I mean, there are games on every one of those addons that you can't play on the base system. That's enough for me to want to list it, anyway.

As far as formatting, I just do lists in plain text, in the browser window or in Notepad...

[phreak97]

Mine's just more of a checklist I guess.. I have as headings:
License, Name, Media Type, Video Format, Country of Origin, Got (yes/no)

I've got 44 consoles in it so far I think.. I'm not at home at the moment.

I've got slightly different interests to you I think.. I didnt worry about the release year

[phreak97]

Heres What I've got... I'm really wishing I used notepad now..

http://drop.io/phreak97#

[tom]

here's a little beauty
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c173/thomasholzer/duckhunt.jpg
>picture courtesy of unknown<

Shoot ducks projected flying up the wall


and also AVS (pre-NES, finished AVS was shown at January 1984 CES)

.

[phreak97]

yeah those are awesome, but for this list both of those dont fit. duck hunt is a tv game, and the avs is a proto.

I've converted my list so far into text, have a look at the first post:)

[phreak97]

Added Famicom Titler.

Also, there are a line of Sharp TV's which had built in famicom or NES consoles, you just plgged your controllers and ame into the tv directly..
I guess they should count, but I dont really have that much interest in them.. What are other peoples thoughts?

[Ed Oscuro]

I guess they should count, but I dont really have that much interest in them.. What are other peoples thoughts?
/me looks at thread title

Hey, your thread, your rules. I'd say add 'em while you're at it.

I don't know if anybody cares, but I've seen (and have) packaging variants for the A/V Famicom units. They look just the same from a distance, no pack-in games.

[burn_654]

There's also the Nintendo licensed Sharp "Game TV." It's a 19 inch crt tv with a built-in American nes. I had the fortune to find one in the wild for $60. :)

It's a lot of fun, and was a really classy dorm tv for me as well! For a 1989 tv the picture was quite decent.

[phreak97]

yeah, there was one with a built in snes too.. I guess I should add those, but it's almost painful to type them in.. Imagining the shipping to australia on 5 or 6 of those things.. (there are a few variants)

Have you still got it?

[Kiddo]

A bit of commentary on the arcade-talk; if these were being debated, we'd also have to consider the VS. Uni-and-Multisystems and the Triforce arcade hardware.

[phreak97]

yep, I thought of that.. but theyre not consoles no matter how you look at it, so I didnt go too far into it. Dont get me wrong, I love most of the nintendo arcade games, but theyre not viable to collect.. there are many old nintendo arcade games which are worth alot of money and are nearly impossible to find. and the new triforce cabs you mentioned which cost thousands of dollars each.

I'd love to crank an F-Zero AX deluxe cab in my gameroom, but it'd send me broke and I'd have to get rid of all my other games to fit it.

I know you could collect the hardware without the cabs, but it leaves them fairly incomplete, there were no universal controls or anything for them, and most games have another pcb interfacing with the triforce box (which looks interestingly like an industrial gamecube) as well as a chunky power supply.. theyre not something your average console collector would want on display.. thered be more wires and junk than game system.

[Kiddo]

Well, I admit I tend to think of these kind of information databases as just as useful for the sake of the information they have, as opposed to actual collecting. I guess this comes from my experience with Satellaview research, where "collecting" in the same sense as one would with other consoles is impossible, but the information is worthwhile to research regardless.

If it's just for collectors, though, I can sorta see the point - although I'm sure a few people have gotten an original Donkey Kong or Punch-Out anyhow, restrictions be damned. :P

[phreak97]

Well, I admit I tend to think of these kind of information databases as just as useful for the sake of the information they have, as opposed to actual collecting. I guess this comes from my experience with Satellaview research, where "collecting" in the same sense as one would with other consoles is impossible, but the information is worthwhile to research regardless.

If it's just for collectors, though, I can sorta see the point - although I'm sure a few people have gotten an original Donkey Kong or Punch-Out anyhow, restrictions be damned. :P

while youre talknig about satellaview.. I've got a few BSX carts which are just normal sfc games except with a slot in the cart like a super gameboy.. why did they make full playable games with the slot in them? what use does it serve?

[phreak97]

There is also a Korean Game Boy ander the Comboy name, I dont know what it is actually called or anything, it kind of looks like it's missing the hyundai branding but still has [something] Comboy on it.
you can see it here:

http://assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8641

looks like theyre a bit protective of their photos so I figured I'd link the whole thread.. scroll down a bit.

If somoene can tell me more about it I'll add it to my list..

[phreak97]

Just letting everyone know I'm still into this after finding some good leads on the south Korean consoles, which I had assumed would be the brick wall blocking my way..

Also, the Korean gameboy is the mini comboy.