Did you know that early Nintendo NES games were such a huge & scary deal for Nintendo that they did not produce games specifically for the US market? That's right, early Nintendo games for the NES were simply Japanese games in a different shell with an adapter stuffed inside. Many people extracted these adapters back in the day to allow them to play imported Japanese Famicom games on their US system. One of the most common titles that people utilize is Gyromite, due to the sheer numbers of them and low-cost abundance of availability.

What NES Games Have the Famicom Adapter:
The big thing is early Nintendo games came with five screws on the back, and this is almost a certain dead giveaway that the game inside has one of these 60-to-72-pin Famicom to NES adapters inside. The games that included these adapters include:
10-Yard Fight
Baseball
Clu Clu Land
Duck Hunt
Excitebike
Golf
Gyromite
Hogan’s Alley
Ice Climber
Kung Fu
Pinball
Stack-Up
Tennis
Wild Gunman
Wrecking Crew

One of the cool things about this is that you don't need any special tools to get inside these cartridges. Most of these cartridges used a flat-blade screwdriver to open them up. dive in the cartridge, and there will be two additional screws holding the adapter board to the front of the cartridge itself. remove those screws, grab the whole kitten caboodle out, disconnect the original game from the adapter board, flip the adapter board 180°, reinstall it, and you're ready to play.

I love playing imported games on my NES, I feel like I am getting away with doing something I am not supposed to be doing. The biggest benefit is that the Japanese Import Games are so much less expensive than the USA versions due to the fact that so many more were printed!

Have you ever seen the inside of an NES game that had one of these adapters inside of it before? Did you know these existed? Have you ever been curious to test out importing Japanese games? Share your thoughts and experiences in the comments!

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