The Nintendo VS. System is a coin-operated arcade platform that Nintendo introduced in 1984, built on largely the same hardware as its Famicom home console, which reached North America as the Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo used it to test the American market after the 1983 video game crash, since arcades were recovering while home consoles were still distrusted by retailers. Operators could retrofit older Nintendo cabinets with the kit, and games sat on pluggable circuit boards, so converting a cabinet meant swapping ROMs and a matching video chip. It shipped as upright UniSystem and DualSystem cabinets and a sit-down DualSystem, and it favoured two-player play. Most titles were conversions from the Famicom and NES, though some appeared on the VS. System first. It faded in Japan but sold about 100,000 cabinets in the United States and was the top-grossing arcade machine there in 1985. Its final game came out in 1990.
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The Nintendo VS. System is an arcade system that was developed and produced by Nintendo.
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Nintendo of America announced in July 1992 that it would stop making arcade machines.
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The Nintendo VS. System is an arcade system that was developed and produced by Nintendo.
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It is based on most of the same hardware as the Family Computer (Famicom)
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