{"id":126668,"date":"2022-07-18T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-134624"},"modified":"2022-07-18T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T13:15:00","slug":"random-have-you-seen-this-cute-unreleased-precursor-to-the-top-loader-nes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/07\/18\/random-have-you-seen-this-cute-unreleased-precursor-to-the-top-loader-nes\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Have You Seen This Cute, Unreleased Precursor To The Top Loader NES?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The North American version of the top-loading NES-101 (Image: Nintendo Life \/ Zion Grassl)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All the way back in 1988, Nintendo would show to the media a brand new piece of hardware that would eventually become the Super Famicom, or the Super NES in the West. It was an exciting time for the gaming community as Nintendo entered the 16-bit era, though it seems certain details from the reveal have slipped through the cracks in the years since \u2014 or perhaps just the cracks in our memory!<\/p>\n

Friend-of-the-site Mike Diver<\/a> reached out to Twitter asking about this ‘Famicom Adapter’ system Nintendo unveiled but never brought to market, and it looks to have been an early version of the top-loading New-Style NES or NES-101 (or the AV Famicom<\/a> as it was known in Japan).<\/p>\n