Why the Famicom lost a microphone and gained a hinge when it went west.
It’s well known that when the Famicom was redesigned as the NES for the American market, Nintendo wanted to make it resemble a video recorder rather than a games console – but the man behind the NES has revealed there is another reason why the American version of the console gained a front-loading "zero insertion force" flap (which has proven to be one of the biggest issues with the console over the decades).
In a talk at the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield on Wednesday, Masayuki Uemura, the former head of Nintendo R&D2, revealed that the company was concerned that dry weather in parts of North America could result in children accidentally causing the console to short circuit.
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