Editing Famicom Disk System (section)

==Legacy==
The Famicom Disk System briefly served as an [[enabling technology]] for the creation of a new wave of home console video games and a new type of video game experience, mostly due to tripling the size of cheap game storage compared to affordable cartridge ROMs, and by storing gamers' progress within their vast new adventures. These games include the [[open world]] design and enduring series launches of ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' and ''[[Metroid (video game)|Metroid]]'' (both 1986), with its launch game ''Zelda'' becoming very popular and leading to sequels which are considered some of the greatest games of all time. Almost one decade ahead of Nintendo's [[Satellaview]] service, the FDS's writable and portable storage technology served as an enabling technology for the innovation of online leaderboards and contests via the in-store Disk Fax kiosks, which are now seen as the earliest forerunners of modern [[online game|online gaming]] and [[Digital distribution in video games|distribution]].<ref name="Digital Distribution Could Learn"/>

Within its library of 200 original games, some are FDS-exclusive and many were re-released one or two years later on cartridges for Famicom and NES, though without the FDS's additional sound channel.