The electronic chip serves as a digital lock which can be opened by a key in the games, designed to restrict the software that could be operated on the system. The 10NES system is a lock-out system designed for the North American and European versions of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console. In response, Nintendo sued Atari for copyright infringement. The lockout chip was controversial, with several developers opting to release their games without Nintendo's approval by using work-arounds the most well-known of these was Tengen (a subsidiary of Atari), which copied the CIC chip, resulting in their games running without issue. Improved designs of the CIC chip were also used in the later Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Nintendo 64, although running an updated security program which performs additional checks.
The chip was designed in response to the North American video game crash of 1983, which was partially the result of a lack of both publishing and quality control the idea was that by forcing third-party developers to have their games go through an approval process, Nintendo could stop shovelware from entering the market. The Checking Integrated Circuit ( CIC) is a lockout chip designed by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console in 1985 the chip is part of a system known as 10NES, in which a 'key' (which is stored in the game) is used by the 'lock' (stored in the console) to both check if the game is authentic, and if the game is the same region as the console.
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