The Family Computer, Nintendo’s 8-bit video game console released in most of Asia, including Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Singapore, will no longer be supported. Effective October 31st, Nintendo will be retiring the system that revived video gaming back in the 1980’s.

In a business where hardware can be obsolete in just a few months, here we have a company supporting a platform for almost a quarter of a century. Apparently, with the Wii selling like marijuana, (or any highly addictive equivalent), the house of Mario has decided to focus on their on-line virtual console service where classic games for legacy systems will be playable by downloading games for a fee.

Personally, I have NES, SNES, Genesis, Lynx, Commodore, Atari, Gameboy, and Gameboy Advance emulators installed in my first Xbox, and my Famicom’s probably withering away in an attic somewhere, so I couldn’t care less.