Happy birthday, NES!
Ah, I remember playing Mario for the first time on NES, back in the day.
Happy b-day, Nintendo.
Be well,
Bryant
Ah, the NES. Can't stop playin' it.
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!
^^
Wow! Young wipper-snapper. :-D
Be well,
Bryant
Mine still works. Nintendo sure knew how to build 'em.
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!
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.
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.
Quote from: SyntheticDreamer on November 13, 2010, 05:06:13 PM
Mine still works. Nintendo sure knew how to build 'em.
Yours still works?!
I'm not sure where my NES is (may have given it to a friend), but I do have a perfectly working Colecovision.
^^^
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)
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on November 15, 2010, 12:01:36 AM
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.
I want a modern version of the NES!
^^^
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 (http://www.amazon.com/Retro-Video-System-Not-Machine-Specific/dp/B0012NZK8G/ref=sr_1_15?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1289865829&sr=1-15)
Some others:
NES Retro Entertainment System by Retro-Bit (http://www.amazon.com/NES-Retro-Entertainment-System-Black-Nintendo/dp/B002RYLG4Q/ref=sr_1_7?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1289864744&sr=1-7)
SNES/NES FC Twin Video Game System by Yobo (http://www.amazon.com/SNES-NES-Video-System-Nintendo-Super/dp/B000R2I68O/ref=sr_1_5?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1289864744&sr=1-5)
Retron 3 NES/SNES/Genesis Triple System - Vector Red by Hyperkin (http://www.amazon.com/Retron-Genesis-Triple-System-Nintendo-Entertainment/dp/B003O3EFY2/ref=sr_1_21?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1289865890&sr=1-21)
NES/SNES/Genesis FC3 Plus Gaming System
by Yobo (http://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Gaming-System-Not-Machine-Specific/dp/B001LVH80M/ref=sr_1_44?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1289865956&sr=1-44)
There are others including portable versions with their own LCD screen.
Yeah...