The Nintendo Entertainment System (often referred to as the NES or simply Nintendo) is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Brazil, Europe, and Australia in . In most of Asia, including Japan (where it was first launched in ), the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Singapore, it was released as the Family Computer, also known as the Famicom or simply FC for short. In South Korea, the hardware was licensed to Hyundai Electronics, which marketed it as the Comboy (컴보이).

The best-selling gaming console of its time in Asia and North America (Nintendo claimed to have sold over 60 million NES units worldwide), it helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983. It set the standard for subsequent consoles in everything from game design (the commonly-bundled game Super Mario Bros. popularized the platform game genre, and introduced elements that would be copied in many subsequent games ) to controller layout (the D-pad refinements used in the NES controller would be incorporated in nearly every major console to follow, and garnered Nintendo a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award). In addition, with the NES, Nintendo introduced a now-standard business model of software licensing for third-party developers.