Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Found this old Sharp commercial and it shows off one of the smartest officially licensed Nintendo products that never made it outside Japan.
This is the Twin Famicom, released by Sharp on July 1, 1986, for about 32,000 yen. Sharp built it under an actual license from Nintendo, and the whole idea was combining a standard Famicom cartridge slot with a built in Famicom Disk System drive, so you no longer needed the separate disk add on or its own power adapter just to play games like the disk based Legend of Zelda or Metroid. A simple switch under the cartridge slot let you flip between cartridge mode and disk mode.
It also fixed something the original Famicom never had from the factory, real composite RCA audio and video output, instead of forcing everyone through a fuzzy RF connection. This was not even Sharp's first Nintendo collaboration either, they had already put out a television with a Famicom built right into it a few years earlier, making the Twin Famicom their second officially licensed Famicom product at the time.
Did any of you ever get your hands on one of these growing up, or is this the first time seeing a Twin Famicom? Let me know down below.
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Found this old Sharp commercial and it shows off one of the smartest officially licensed Nintendo products that never made it outside Japan.
This is the Twin Famicom, released by Sharp on July 1, 1986, for about 32,000 yen. Sharp built it under an actual license from Nintendo, and the whole idea was combining a standard Famicom cartridge slot with a built in Famicom Disk System drive, so you no longer needed the separate disk add on or its own power adapter just to play games like the disk based Legend of Zelda or Metroid. A simple switch under the cartridge slot let you flip between cartridge mode and disk mode.
It also fixed something the original Famicom never had from the factory, real composite RCA audio and video output, instead of forcing everyone through a fuzzy RF connection. This was not even Sharp's first Nintendo collaboration either, they had already put out a television with a Famicom built right into it a few years earlier, making the Twin Famicom their second officially licensed Famicom product at the time.
Did any of you ever get your hands on one of these growing up, or is this the first time seeing a Twin Famicom? Let me know down below.
Subscribe to Game Forest GF for retro gaming content every single day.
#twinfamicom #famicom #sharptwinfamicom #nintendo #famicomdisksystem #retrogaming #8bit #japanesegaming #vintagegaming #retroconsole #nintendohistory #classicgaming #retrotech #nostalgiagamer #gameforestgf #youtubeshorts #gaming
