Classic Series (NES)

The Classic Series was a marketing label used by Nintendo in Europe and North America from 1992 onwards to describe a line of budget range rereleases of NES video games.

[4] After its fairly limited runtime from late 1992 throughout 1993, the label inspired the similarly named Super Classic Series (called Player's Choice in North America) on the SNES in 1996, which was then rebranded to Nintendo Selects in 2011.

The former mostly reused the respective game's original packaging (including box art and manuals) with only the small addition of a golden emblem showing Mario in a top hat with "Nintendo Entertainment System" written in a circle around him.

In North America, cartridge labels and box art were redesigned to feature a red header reading "Nintendo Entertainment System - Classic Series" as well as an emblem resembling a tilted square consisting of dashed lines and the words "The Original".

[5] The label was used in three of the Nintendo Entertainment System's game regions, those being NES-NOE (only referring to reunified Germany after 1991), NES-FRA (Metropolitan France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) and NES-USA (United States).