Definition of Nintendo entertainment system

The Nintendo Entertainment System (often referred to as the NES or simply Nintendo) is an 8-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Brazil, Europe, and Australia in 1985. In most of Asia, including Japan (where it was first launched in 1983), the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Singapore, it was released as the or simply, the . In South Korea, the hardware was licensed to Hyundai Electronics, which marketed it as the Comboy (컴보이).