Nintendo console, which released in North America in 1985, and in Europe throughout 1986 and 1987. The console was initially released in Japan as the Family Computer (abbreviated as Famicom) in 1983. The best-selling gaming console of its time, the NES helped revitalise the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983. With the NES, Nintendo introduced a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers, authorising them to produce and distribute games for Nintendo's platform. The NES was bundled with "Super Mario Bros.", one of the best-selling video games of all time, and received ports of Nintendo's most
Geist (video game) game among the worst horror games of all time. Geist (video game) Geist (stylized as geist) is a first-person action-adventure video game for the Nintendo GameCube, released on August 15, 2005, in North America; on October 7, 2005, in Europe; and on November 3, 2005 in Australia. A prototype of the game was developed by n-Space, who approached Nintendo to be the game's publisher. Nintendo accepted, making "Geist" the second GameCube game published by Nintendo to receive an M-rating (the first being ""). In the following years, Nintendo and n-Space worked closely on "Geist". The game was first shown at