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Nintendo Entertainment System, an Epic card
The Nintendo Entertainment System is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 91
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 184
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 640,000
Power 184 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Nintendo Entertainment System quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Nintendo Entertainment System card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The NES was ______ in Europe, Australia, and parts of Asia throughout the 1980s.
Answer
distributed. The NES was distributed in Europe, Australia, and parts of Asia throughout the 1980s. From the Nintendo Entertainment System article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Elvis Costello. Elvis Costello 94 · Nintendo Entertainment System 91 · The Birth of a Nation 88 · Aga Khan IV 85 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was released as the Family Computer in Japan on July 15, 1983, and as the NES in test markets in the United States on October 18, 1985, followed by a nationwide launch on September 27, 1986.
- The NES was distributed in Europe, Australia, and parts of Asia throughout the 1980s.
- It was Nintendo's first programmable home console, succeeding the Color TV-Game line of dedicated consoles, and primarily competed with Sega's Master System in the third generation of video game consoles.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Nintendo Entertainment System article was read about 640,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 91 and blocks with 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Nintendo Entertainment System
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Arts cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Nintendo Entertainment System in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Golden Gate BridgeEpic · Arts · ATK 89 DEF 95
- Indigenous peoples of the AmericasEpic · Society · ATK 96 DEF 88
- JellyfishEpic · Nature · ATK 88 DEF 96
- Peter CushingEpic · Arts · ATK 87 DEF 97
- Aga Khan IVEpic · History · ATK 85 DEF 99
- Søren KierkegaardEpic · Arts · ATK 91 DEF 93
Card lists
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Nintendo Entertainment System (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Evan-Amos, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
