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Nintendo Entertainment System is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on April 1, 2005.

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Date	Process	Result
January 9, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
August 3, 2010	Featured article review	Demoted

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Gifford, Kevin (July 10, 2013). "The Famicom's creator reflects on 30 years of 8-bit bliss". Polygon. Vox Media. Archived from the original on July 15, 2013.
Cunningham, Andrew (July 15, 2013). "The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry". Ars Technica. Condé Nast Publications. Archived from the original on July 16, 2013.
O'Kane, Sean (October 18, 2015). "7 things I learned from the designer of the NES". The Verge. Vox Media. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015.
Altice, Nathan (2015). I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer / Entertainment System Platform. Platform Studies. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-02877-6.
永井, 美智子 (September 30, 2007). "「遊びをせんとや生まれけむ」--生みの親が語るファミコン成功の秘訣". CNET Japan (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 20, 2007.
https://archive.org/details/technopolis-volume-15-october-1983/page/81/mode/1up (hardware info)
https://archive.org/details/21_20191215/16/page/n11/mode/2up (hardware retrospective)
https://archive.org/details/nintendo-dream-august-21-2003-08-21-vol-095-600dpi-ozidual/Nintendo%20Dream%202003%2008%2021%20v095%20%28J%20OCR%29/page/n5/mode/2up (interview)
https://archive.org/details/beep-1988-06/page/59/mode/1up