Nintendo PlayChoice-10

Template:System-Infobox The Nintendo PlayChoice-10 was an arcade machine that consisted of 10 different games that had previously only been available on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

Description and History

Because of the fact that home gaming consoles were nearing the popularity of arcade machines, video game companies (e.g. Sega, Nintendo) decided to capitalize on this trend by making stand up arcade machines out of their existing console systems. Nintendo, being the industry leader at the time, was especially successful with this concept. Nintendo packed its most popular games (e.g. Duck Hunt, Excitebike) into a machine case, and called it PlayChoice-10. The machine was compatible with the NES, but it was actually quite different. Normal NES cartridges could not be used, rather, the PlayChoice used special expansion cards containing usually unmodified NES games along with extra 8KB ROM to display hints. Due to the fact that the PlayChoice-10 output RGB video using a slightly different palette, games did not look exactly the same as they did on the NES.

List of available Mario games

• Dr. Mario (1990)
• Golf (1985)
• Mario Bros. (1986)
• Mario Open Golf (1991)
• Super Mario Bros. (1985)
• Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988)
• Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)