Before we run through the top 5 selling NES games heres a little bit of background knowledge on the console itself. The Nintendo Entertainment System, or the NES, is an 8-bit video games console that was released by Nintendo during 1985/1986/1987, depending on where in the world you were back then. If you resided in Japan though, you would of been lucky and got to see the console way before the rest of the world in 1983. The NES gained a huge reputation around the world and became the best-selling console of its time, selling almost 62 million units worlwide.