The Famicom Mini, known in North America as the Classic NES Series and simply as NES Classics in Europe, is a Japanese collection of Game Boy Advance games released between 2004 and 2005 that are re-editions of many classic Famicom titles. It contains the original Famicom version of TwinBee (vol. 19) along its library, which includes many other games from other classic series. It is an exact emulation of the original game, compared to other games of the series that featured slight differences.
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The Famicom Mini is a line of Game Boy Advance games which were released to celebrate Nintendo's history, featuring a collection of classic and iconic games from diverse franchises that helped define the company during its golden era (1980s), although it also contained selected games from other franchises, such as Capcom, Konami, Hudson Soft and Namco. The box art of these games were reminiscent of Famicom boxes.
The Japanese series' library counted with 30 games released over three series. In comparison, only 12 games were released over two series in North America and Europe. In North America, the series was titled as Classic NES Series, and in Europe, simply as NES Classics and the games were numbered. Most of the games in these collections were for a single player only, although there were a few exceptions in which the games could be played by two players via the GBA Link Cable.
The games were released at a budget price point ($20 in the U.S.). Despite this, consumers objected about the price still being too high. Even though a typical Game Boy Advance game cost much more, compilations of 8-bit games were already fairly common by that time.