Category:Unlicensed NES games

Games for the Famicom and NES that were produced without the permission or knowledge of Nintendo.

When the Famicom first released in Japan, the system had no lock-out chip and despite efforts to control what third parties released in Japan, it resulted in an unhindered stream of unlicensed games from the mid-80s right up to the present day, both in cartridge form and (more recently) built into countless plug & play and handheld consoles that appropriated the system's hardware.

By the time Nintendo first released the NES in North America, it had a lock-out chip built in to prevent developers from creating games without Nintendo's permission. Not that this deterred some developers...