List of Nintendo Entertainment System games
The Nintendo Entertainment System has a library of officially licensed games released during their lifespans, plus 7 official multicarts and 2 championship cartridges. Of these, 672 were released exclusively in Japan, 187 were released exclusively in North America, and 19 were released exclusively in PAL countries. Worldwide, 521 games were released.
Its launch games for the Famicom were Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Popeye. Only first-party titles were available upon launch, but Nintendo started a licensing program the following year that allowed third-party companies such as Namco, Hudson Soft, Taito, Konami, Bandai, and Capcom to create titles and produce their own cartridges for the Famicom in exchange for royalty payments; Nintendo later revised the program to mandate itself as the manufacturer of all cartridges while carrying it with the console outside Japan. The launch games for North America were: 10-Yard Fight, Baseball, Clu Clu Land, Duck Hunt, Excitebike, Golf, Gyromite, Hogan's Alley, Ice Climber, Kung Fu, Pinball, Soccer, Stack-Up, Super Mario Bros., Tennis, Wild Gunman, and Wrecking Crew. The final licensed game released is the PAL-exclusive The Lion King on May 25, 1995.
As was typical for consoles of its era, the Famicom used ROM cartridges as the primary method of game distribution; each cartridge featured 60 pins, with two pins reserved for external sound chips. For the console's North American release in 1985 as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo redesigned the cartridge to accommodate the console's front-loading, videocassette recorder-derived socket by nearly doubling its height and increasing its width by, resulting in a measurement of high by wide. Referred to as "Game Paks", each NES cartridge sported an increased total of 72 pins, with two pins reserved for the CIC lockout chip and ten pins reserved for connections with the console's bottom expansion port. However, the two pins for external sound were removed and relocated to the expansion port instead; any Famicom game using them would have its soundtrack recomposed for releases on NES cartridges. Though the extra space of the NES cartridge was not utilized by most games, it enabled the inclusion of additional hardware expansions; in contrast, some copies of early NES games like Gyromite merely paired the printed circuit board of the game's Famicom version with an adapter to convert between the different pinouts. Cartridges had storage sizes ranging from 64 Kilobits to 8 Megabits, with 1 to 3 Megabit cartridges being the most commonly used.
Nintendo later released the Famicom Disk System in Japan in 1986, intending to have developers distribute all future games on proprietary floppy disks to avoid the cost and size limitations of cartridges; however, developers began re-releasing FDS games on cartridges as advancements in cartridge technology made them feasible again with the limitations of the floppy disks and their ecosystem apparent, pulling support for the FDS by the 1990s.
Licensed games
Compilations
Championship games
Konami QTa Adaptor games
Bandai Datach games
| Title | Developer | Publisher | JP |
| Crayon Shin-Chan: Ora to Poi Poi | Tose | Bandai | |
| Battle Rush: Build Up Robot Tournament | Tose | Bandai | |
| Dragon Ball Z: Gekitō Tenkaichi Budokai | Tose | Bandai | |
| J. League Super Top Players | Tose | Bandai | |
| SD Gundam: Gundam Wars | Tose | Bandai | |
| Ultraman Club: Supokon Fight! | Tose | Bandai | |
| Yū Yū Hakusho: Bakutō Ankoku Bujutsu Kai | Tose | Bandai |
Unreleased games
| Title | Year | Publisher | Region |
| The Adventures of Dr. Franken | 1993 | Elite | NA |
| Airball | 1990 | Tengen | NA |
| Arc Hound | 1992 | Konami | JP |
| Armadillo | 1991 | IGS | NA |
| Armadillo II | 1992 | IGS | JP |
| Battle Choice | 1989 | Konami | JP |
| Bio Force Ape | 1992 | SETA | JP |
| Bashi Bazook: Morphoid Masher | Jaleco | NA | |
| Blazeblasters | 1991 | Nexoft | NA |
| Blockout | 1990 | Technōs Japan | NA |
| Buster Bros. | 1993 | Hudson Soft | NA |
| Buzz & Waldog | Innovation | NA | |
| The California Raisins: The Grape Escape | 1990 | Capcom | NA |
| Card Sharks | 1988 | GameTek | NA |
| Cheetahmen II | 1993 | Active Enterprises | NA |
| Chip's Challenge | 1991 | Bullet-Proof Software | NA |
| Chuck Yeager's Fighter Combat | 1993 | Electronic Arts | NA |
| Crash 'n the Boys: Ice Challenge | 1992 | Technōs Japan | NA |
| Crash 'n the Boys: Soccer Challenge | 1994 | Technōs Japan | NA |
| Cyberball | Tengen | NA | |
| Danger Zone | 1989 | Tradewest | NA |
| Days of Thunder | 1990 | Mindscape | NA |
| Dennis the Menace | 1993 | Ocean Software | NA |
| Dewey the Dolphin | 1990 | Ocean Software | NA |
| Donkey Kong no Ongaku Asobi | 1983 | Nintendo | JP |
| Double Play | 1989 | Tradewest | NA |
| Drac's Night Out | 1991 | Parker Brothers | NA |
| Earth Bound | 1990 | Nintendo | NA |
| Erik the Viking | 1992 | Video System | NA |
| Escape from Atlantis | Color Dreams | NA | |
| Exploding Fist | 1991 | Tradewest | NA |
| The Fairyland Story | 1986 | Taito | JP |
| Felix the Cat | 1992 | Hudson Soft | JP |
| Final Fantasy II | Square | NA | |
| Final Fantasy IV | 1991 | Square | JP |
| Fun House | 1990 | Hi Tech Expressions | NA |
| Happy Camper | 1990 | Color Dreams | NA |
| Happily Ever After | 1991 | SOFEL | NA |
| Hard Drivin' | 1990 | Tengen | NA |
| Hellraiser | 1990 | Color Dreams | NA |
| HeroQuest | 1991 | Milton Bradley | NA |
| Hit the Ice | 1993 | Taito | NA |
| Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road | 1991 | Pack-in-Video | JP |
| John Madden Football '93 | 1992 | Ubisoft | NA |
| Kung Fu 2 | 1991 | Irem | NA |
| Loopz | 1991 | Mindscape International Japan | JP |
| NBA | 1989 | LJN | NA |
| Neo Vulgus | 1988 | Capcom | JP |
| New Kids on the Block | 1991 | Parker Brothers | NA |
| Ninja Taro | 1989 | American Sammy | NA |
| Parody World: Monster Party | 1989 | Bandai | JP |
| Password | 1988 | GameTek | NA |
| Pescatore | 1991 | Sunsoft | JP, NA |
| Pizza Pop | 1992 | Jaleco | NA |
| Police Academy | 1990 | Tengen | NA |
| The Price is Right | 1988 | GameTek | NA |
| Rampart | Tengen | NA | |
| Return of Donkey Kong | Nintendo | NA | |
| Road Runner | Mindscape | NA | |
| RoboCop vs. the Terminator | 1993 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment | NA |
| Secret Ties | 1992 | Vic Tokai | NA |
| Shounen Majutsushi Indy | 1992 | IGS Corp. | JP |
| SimCity | 1991 | Nintendo | NA |
| Spy vs. Spy II: The Island Caper | 1989 | Kemco | NA |
| Square Racing | 1990 | Square | JP |
| Squashed | 1991 | Jaleco | NA |
| Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | 1989 | Bandai | NA |
| Strider Hiryuu | 1988 | Capcom | JP |
| Sunman | 1992 | Sunsoft | JP, NA |
| Super Password | 1989 | GameTek | NA |
| Super Pitfall 2 | 1989 | Activision | NA |
| Sydney Hunter and the Curse of the Mayan | CollectorVision | NA | |
| Talking Super Password | 1990 | GameTek | NA |
| Technocop | 1992 | Tengen | NA |
| The Terminator | 1989 | Sunsoft | NA |
| Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends | 1993 | THQ | NA |
| Time Diver: Eon Man | 1993 | Taito | NA |
| Tip Off | 1992 | Imagineer | JP, EU |
| Titan Warriors | 1988 | Capcom | NA |
| Trivial Pursuit | 1991 | Parker Brothers | NA |
| Twin Peaks | 1991 | Hi Tech Expressions | NA |
| UWC | SETA | NA | |
| Vindicators | 1990 | Altron | JP |
| War on Wheels | 1991 | Jaleco | NA |
| World War III | 1989 | LJN | NA |
| Xybots | 1990 | Tengen | NA |