The NES, also known as Famicom, launched in 1983 in Japan and 1985 in North America, where the video game industry was headed downhill due to a deluge of poor games and over-saturation. Nintendo's second home console became an enormous success, establishing consoles as a mainstream market in Japan and pulling the North American industry back to its feet.
Well that's easy for you to say, but I certainly couldn't find anything about it. Found a yahoo answers page on it but it was removed, and it had no answers when I checked the page on google cache. I'm fairly sure it was 6502 assembly language but I would just like to know for sure.
Edit: Whoops, I didn't notice other people had answered :P It was meant to keyhunter.
Well that's easy for you to say, but I certainly couldn't find anything about it. Found a yahoo answers page on it but it was removed, and it had no answers when I checked the page on google cache. I'm fairly sure it was 6502 assembly language but I would just like to know for sure.
Yes, the NES used the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor and programming was done in its respective assembly language.
So they didn't have "real" languages at all for the NES? I mean, for the C64 which also uses the 6502 cpu they had BASIC(which I wouldn't call a real language lol) and C and stuff. Why not for the NES?
EDIT: Thank you for your serious answer btw :)
EDIT2: oraknabo: ah I see. Well thank you guys for your answers.
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