The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo. Initially launched in Japan as the Family Computer (Famicom) in July 1983, the console was redesigned and rebranded for the US market in 1986, subsequently broadly distributed worldwide under different names.

The NES is often regarded as the most influential gaming console in history, spearheading the revival of the American industry after the so-called Atari shock, a notorious 1983–85 market crash; such massively popular franchises as Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda debuted on NES. Nintendo also introduced a practice of licensing third-party developers to produce games on their platform, which became industry standard today. Just like other third-generation consoles, such as Sega's SG-1000 / Mark III and Atari's Atari 7800, the NES overlapped with 16-bit consoles introduced in 1987, and was produced and sold until August 1995 in North America/Europe/Australia. Nintendo Entertainment System lasted much longer on the domestic Japanese market, however, only discontinued in September 2003.