Famicom Disk System - Nintendo games on diskettes

The year is 1986. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is released in Europe and thrills video game fans in the Western world.

In Japan, the Family Computer, as it is known there, has already been available for a few years, and in 1986 Nintendo launched the Famicom Disk System: an add-on drive that allows video games to be played on rewritable floppy disks. This was accompanied by an entire ecosystem of ‘Disk Writer’ kiosks as an early form of software distribution.

The exhibition shows how the drive worked and how Nintendo marketed the games.