25 years of NES

[Roadsign199qc]

Happy birthday, NES!

[Bryant5493]

Ah, I remember playing Mario for the first time on NES, back in the day.

Happy b-day, Nintendo.


Be well,

Bryant

[Roadsign199qc]

Ah, the NES. Can't stop playin' it.

[TheStranger]

It hit me how long ago this was when I was talking to my 10 year old cousin last week (he was playing Super Smash Bros. for the Wii) and he had NO IDEA what the NES was. wow!

[Bryant5493]

^^

Wow! Young wipper-snapper.


Be well,

Bryant

[WillWeaverRVA]

Mine still works. Nintendo sure knew how to build 'em.

[mightyace]

They weren't the only ones.

I have a working NES.

I also have working Atari 2600s, Intellivisions, Colecovisions, a Sears Breakout-Pinball game some of which are 5-10 years older than the oldest NES.

My brother has the original Maganavox Odyssey cartridge systems (not Odyssey 2!) that's over 35 years old and still works!

[huskeroadgeek]

My family had the Odyssey 2 system-I guess I didn't realize there was an older Odyssey system. Actually, our first video game system was a Telstar system. It was in black and white and had 4 different games-all Pong variants.

[PAHighways]

I still have a 30-year-old Atari 2600 and a 20 something-year-old Atari 800 (with a whopping 64K RAM) in working condition.

[Roadsign199qc]

Mine still works. Nintendo sure knew how to build 'em.

Yours still works?!

[Dr Frankenstein]

I'm not sure where my NES is (may have given it to a friend), but I do have a perfectly working Colecovision.

[mightyace]

^^^

You're lucky.  They didn't always function perfectly when they were new.  Their RF modulators are notoriously finicky.

I don't miss RF modulators one bit.

The NES was the first console that I recall had direct video output.  (composite)

[Stephane Dumas]

I'm not sure where my NES is (may have given it to a friend), but I do have a perfectly working Colecovision.

Colecovision, I have one too a long while ago....  too bad they're won't be a release of some Colecovision games like the "Intellvision Lives!" series where we could play old-school Intellivision games on Nintendo 64/DS, Playstation.

[Roadsign199qc]

I want a modern version of the NES!

[mightyace]

^^^

There are a number of clones that play NES games:

I own this one:
Retro Duo Twin Video Game System NES & SNES by Retro-Bit

Some others:
NES Retro Entertainment System by Retro-Bit

SNES/NES FC Twin Video Game System by Yobo

Retron 3 NES/SNES/Genesis Triple System - Vector Red by Hyperkin

NES/SNES/Genesis FC3 Plus Gaming System
by Yobo

There are others including portable versions with their own LCD screen.

[Roadsign199qc]

Yeah...