The Nintendo Mini was made in 2018 that same year was also super Nintendo mini Sony also made a mini with the PlayStation PC engine and Sega also did one
Modern consoles...oh the power! The graphics! Quality surround sound! Blah, blah, blah.... Yes, modern consoles are nice. But do you truly APPRECIATE them?? As a 53yo gamer who got their first gaming console in 1978 (The SEARS version of PONG), and who got the next generation's consoles every few years thereafter, I can say YES. I appreciate modern consoles. Some of my fondest memories are from playing the older consoles...playing Atari Asteroids with my cousin, NES River Raid with my Father, opening my Atari X-Mas morning in 1980(?), playing Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis with my daughter...countless great memories. Wouldn't take them back for the world. Growing up on the older gaming systems really make you truly appreciate the newer ones. Another very cool thing is being "blown away" by playing the new next-gen console the first time every time one came out. The difference between PONG and Atari 2600? That, at the time, was EPIC. Groundbreaking. Incredible! Now we laugh at the old games but man were they ever fun at the time!! Appreciation.
Moisture in breath… I had a friend named Rocky. We were at his house and couldn’t start Blades Of Steel. I recommend alcohol on a cotton swab. Rocky was like… naw. He put the game under the kitchen faucet and let the water flow. I was doubtful, but Blades Of Steel booted up, and we were having hockey fights in no time.
I'm an old school NES fan who bought my console at the age of 13 back in 1987. I love the system and know a lot about it, but still learned a lot today. Great job!
I was the same age and my friends and I spent a ridiculous amount of time and money on NES, Super NES and the N64. I started gaming on the Atari 2600 at 4. And I was playing Mrs. Pac man at the local 7-11 by 2nd grade. From Mrs. Pac Man to Mortal Kombat arcade games I probably could have bought a used car instead of dumping buckets of quarters in to them.
@@greatwavefan397 If you’re asking, were they flying off the shelves in 1987? Absolutely. I got mine Christmas of 1987 when I was 12. Just about everybody I knew had one or was playing one at someone’s house. And it seemed only boys were playing Nintendo. I think junior high school girls thought they were too cool or mature for video games back then. Yep, it was definitely Nintendo fever in 1987.
I know it's common knowledge now, but my brother and I had our minds blown when we accidentally figured out that player 2 can control the duck in Duck Hunt.
Yeah we figured that out as kids we would take turns one would shoot while the other tried to dodge the shots. I honestly had forgotten about it till I saw your comment. Great memories.
Yeah, there's a number of games that work that way, which the games don't actually tell you about. In Gotcha!, another Zapper game, where you're playing capture the flag, you normally wait as the game automatically pans left and right to get you to where you need to be. But you can have P2 actually use left and right on their pad to move you quickly. Which can be great when you need to chase down the flag carrier, or want to dodge enemy shots. Gyromite is set up to work with R.O.B., where it would randomly raise and lower the pipes for you. But you can have P2 do that manually with their controller.
I grew up when video games first hit the market. I remember the days of the 2600, intellivision and colecovision. My family had the intellivision and I saved up my money to by a vectrex. Playing Super Mario 3 and Zelda on the NES was what kept my attention in my days as a young man. Clearly the titles all look very dated now but back then, it was amazing. Thank you for posting an actual informative video and lighting up the nostalgia in my mind.
Odyssey 2! Most don't know it, arguably " better " than a 2600. Had a full querty kb and a Pacman clone so good that Atari sued, called K.C. Munchkin. And yes when the NES came out it was so amazing my dad said " this is like the real thing!" ( The real thing was the arcade)
@@b4uc2far95 o yes I loved my TurboGrafx ( wow it was in my autocomplete! ) I even had the adapter to play PC Engine games...great system , had the wrong competitor....the Genesis, which stomped it. They came out the same Xmas and only a few people knew about it. The following year, games were few for the Turbo, I ended up getting the SNES, which was the proper answer to the Genesis, which never really interested me.
I love the bonus at the end. I have one of those SHARP NES TVs out in my garage. I bought it at a garage sale in Sioux Falls SD in 2010 fpr $10. Still works great!
God, it's crazy how nostalgia works. Just hearing game boy camera music at random just completely threw me into another stage of my life, and everything that came with that.
It sucks sometimes and its really great others but i know how you feel,Ive been a gamer since Pong in the late 70s and i was 15 when the NES console came out,at that time i took a break from videogames from 86 to about 89, i was too busy chasing girls and drinking adult beverages but after that i got right back on it to this day,those were some great times back then, people these days just cannot possibly relate how much fun we had.
10:31 Thanks for the chemistry lesson but here's another interesting fact: This color issue didn't (and doesn't) happen to all models, at some point they changed the composition in the platic, not with the intention of preventing this but because of durability, fixing the coloring issue was just luck.
The hidden expansion port has since been used for all sorts of homebrew projects. Google Maps and a Twitter bot for NES were both made this way; pretty mind blowing that internet would even work at all
AMAZING VIDEO MAN!!! I'm 41, grew up with tail end of Atari and Born into the NES World... U showed me atleast couple things I HAD NO IDEA exsisted!!! I only own around 40-50 NES Games, packed away because I live on couch trying to get my own place while the world is in a Hiccup... So when I get my own place, hopefully this year 2024... I'll DEFINITELY investigate collection now I know what I know now THANKS TO U!! I appreciate ur effort and deep dive into these old worlds, ur one of my Top-3 Gamer Fellas I enjoy watching... Keep up the Awesome Detail Work u provide, Sincerely, Josh A. Cyr (From Maine)
you could have just said "yeah, its the sunlight that makes it yellow" but you gave the actual in depth explanation and explained it, i love the little bits of above and beyond you put into your videos
@@cclowe80 lol yep, and in the cars with the kids clambaking us and don't forget the big garbage can sized ashtrays in the mall! Because you could walk through the mall just puffing away!
@No Touchy do you know what the word gender means? like i dont want to come across as condescending or rude but do you understand what that word means in the context of biology? you sound misinformed and speaking at a grade 8 understanding of science
There's another reason they might be so big: I had a friend that was a toy tester. He got a game to test that had a prototype "save system" built in. At that time, you weren't able to save games at all. It was a large circuit board that actually stuck out a few inches from the top of a smaller cartridge. I wish I could remember the title. It's possible that they thought they'd need all that space.
I was thinking the same thing, it was probably actually a way to ensure they had space to work with if they wanted to include larger PCBs in the future. They could make a larger Famicon cart, no problem, just make it taller, but the size of NES carts could never be made larger.
I have seen a handful of cartridges with actual external switches. I've only seen two types. The first one is officially modified cartridges for special public events by Nintendo. These are highly sought after. The second one was modified beta cartridges by indie developers to trouble shoot their games. It was crude and done to try to troubleshoot loading issues. The cartridge itself was very butchered and was from Taiwan. Sadly no one couldn't retrieve the rom software on it though. Must have been a very early unit considering how easy and common it was to see pirated software later.
As a kid, I owned the NES game Caveman Games from Data East. I knew it showed 6-player support, but didn't know about the Four Score or other adapters to connect them all at once. So in the case of this game, up to six controls are divided by 3 uses of the 2 natural NES controller ports. Every minigame on Caveman games uses 2 players at a time, but also having multiple rounds like a tournament, such as Clubbing. Players A-B would have one game, then Players C-D, then Players E-F, and winners from those (like B-C) would have a third round. I tested this out around this time last year to figure out how it works. Also, I hope you like the B-C pun I left in there :)
8:43 Just a warning: "The higher percent the better" is true, however *very* high concentration isopropanol (like 97-99%) can damage some plastics. I don't know if the plastic in NES carts is susceptible, but I think it's worth bringing up in case someone is really worried. 91% should be enough--the 9% water content ends up pretty insignificant given how little alcohol you use, and it's also free of dissolved ions.
I remember being in a service merchandise in the early '90s and seeing one of those sharp game televisions and it was running Fester's quest as a demo and for years I thought I was having a fever dream because I couldn't find the TV or the game which I was so convinced was a sequel to blaster Master. Years later, thanks to the internet, I discovered both and was glad to know I'm not crazy
I remember seeing them back in the 80s and hearing people say that they sucked because if the tv or the NES broke it was a pain to repair and you might lose both of them.
Well done video. You impressed a still active old fart gamer and actually got me interested in getting various NES hardware again. I was 12 when the NES came out in the United States and consisted of a huge chunk of my fanboy years as a gamer. I went out of my way to like this video and subscribe to this channel because I was so impressed by your knowledge. No joke.
@@BinglesP The original front loading system is nicknamed the toaster because of the spring loaded mechanism inside of it, not because of the cartridge orientation. Bread will spring up out of a toaster similar to how a cartridge springs back up after you press down on it in the system. The later system revision is just called the top-loader.
The OG console is referred to as 'the toaster model' not because of the way the cartridges are loaded, but because of the push-down spring mechanism which is very similar to the front handles on a toaster.
For #2 I had a bootleg cartridge that was actually 2 cartridges in one. If you separated them the first half worked in a Famicom console but combined they were the same size as a NES cartridge. The bottom half was essentially a Famicom to NES adapter.
Loved it! Thanks for the material. The NES was my first console ever and played till my fingers hurt. I had calluses on my thumbs from playing super Mario bros.
Thanks Drew. Brought back great memories. When I was a kid I went to my cousin's house after school all the time. He had a NES, and I didn't. Good times.
The Famicom yellows too. It’s very easy to get a used Famicom pretty much everywhere in Japan for about $5.00. They are super common and used game shops carry tons of old games, so getting tons of Famicom games is really easy. There is one shop that has a mint condition, sealed copy of Super Mario Bros for $800.00!
Bullshit. The literal cheapest Famicom on Japan auctions is $138. Anyone selling them for $5 is an absolute fool. The fact you END your comment by citing an example of you being full of shit is really telling.
I've been living in Japan for 12 years now and have been to many used game shops all over Tokyo (including Akihabara, of course) and in more rural areas of Saitama and Kanagawa and I have never seen one so cheap. It wouldn't even make sense for them to even take up the space with something so cheap. They all have tons of games though and I have about 20 SNES games I got over the years with most of them being a few hundred yen.
The top loader is the version of the NES I grew up playing since that's the one my sister had. It wasn't until maybe the mid 2000s when I saw what the original NES looked like and found the original rectangular controller design weird since it was so different from the dogbone controller I was used to.
The top loader was so weird to me... A friend of mine got one and I remember thinking they made it look so much like a cheap toy, not at all like my built like a tank original unit. Guess their original marketing worked on kids too, not just parents.
My parents bought me the original NES pretty soon after it came out. I remember it came with 2 controllers, the big gray pistol and 1 single game cartridge Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt
I had tears in my eyes when I seen that Bible Adventures game my grandmother had got me when I was younger. I used to play hours and hours Gathering animals bringing back to the ark. What Memories
Another not well known and fun fact.. a large portion of the sounds used in the original NES library were composed of recordings of farts that were slowed down or sped up.. same was used in Super Mario World on the SNES.. example the sound of going through doors in Castles.. that was a recording of someone selfishly ripping a fart into a microphone.. pretty amazing really
Never knew about the famicom converter in some Nes titles! I’ve been collecting for years too!! Now I need to check my nes library lol! So cool! Thanks for the info! Love learning something new about retro gaming!
Nice. I knew there were NES carts with Famicom PCBs + adapters, but didn't know about the five screws. I always love hearing the nitty-gritty details of how controllers and stuff work, too. I still remember that Nintendo Power bonus issue all about 4-player NES games.
What? Going to look at my collection of NES Cartridges tonight & see if any of my games have the Famicom Converter! I can play Famicom games for the NES now?!? Oh this is a huge game changer for me! I have tons for my Game Boy as they were region free, but now I can collect them for my NES too! Dude. Mind Blown!!
This was incredibly fascinating! I love all the details you're able to discover about things that I would never even think to explore! Thank you for always adding to my ever growing list of obscure game knowledge!
Another pro tip on cleaning gaming equipment. Bug infestations. IN rare cases, but a climbing concern, bed bugs are on the rise again. If you fear they've gotten into your gaming equipment, know that the same alchol used in this video can be sprayed lightly in something like a windex bottle into controllers and the likes. Should likely remove all charge from the device, like batteries if you can remove them, but likely to survive none the less. Further more however that's safer still, as long as you don't handle them directly, is purchasing NUVAN strips, or get them through an extermination company if y our state doesn't allow the like to be mailed to you directly. Put these in a bag or sealable gasket storage box with any equipment you are concerned may have a BED BUG or other infestation. Leave them sealed for 14 days, then remove and let them air out for an hour or so away from you to be all the safest. Be warned that NUVAN strips are quite toxic if handled at length, but are safe enough as long as you don't spend more than 4 hours a day around them estimated. Handled safely however, these are a prime tool to saving hardware that may be infested by even some of the most durable of infesting creatures that would fit inside of them.
OMG Bible Adventures! My super Christian grandmother knew my brother and I were into Nintendo games and bought us Bible Adventures. I honestly just thought it was a game no one had ever heard of but seeing that cartridge brought back so many memories. I had a blast playing it too.
I bought a 5 screw copy of Wrecking Crew building I had no idea that 5 screw games are worth more than the 3 screw. I saw people asking around $25-$40 for them. But I’m not selling it because it’s a fun little game. Still interesting to know though! Keep up the good work dude!
So when you said the part about the voltage rating bypassing the NES's lockout chip, is that why when I insert reproduction cartridges into my Retron 5 it comes up with a voltage warning? I never understood that, but it makes sense now.
Aaaaah the NES! I was one of the first designers working on NES titles outside of Japan. We actually had to bust the thing open to reverse engineer it, then send Nintndo some games material designed for the systyem to prove to them that we could do the job!
5:51 the purpose was to prevent theft. Back in the days we had a place called block buster. You could rent games for a couple of days or a week. Like a library book. Bad and poor kids like myself who didnt have $60 in 87 to buy a new game would rent the newest games unscrew the game and put some corney sports title in the case and rescrew it and they would never know. The solution to prevent this was to make the new screws to stop us from stealing the boards out amd the tabs was supposed to be "tamper evident." We started melting toothbrushes to make new bits to open the games lol. The 80s was crazy.
I did the same thing and got kicked out of blockbuster they caught me it was hilarious but by the time they caught me I already had at least 30-40 games 😂 and that was towards the end of Blackbuster anyway I was putting old Atari cartridges in there
I worked for Nintendo in the 90's. After every repair we had to put a red sticker on the NES cover that said "Do not blow in the cartridge". Isopropanol works for cleaning moderately dirty carts, but for the bad ones Nintendo recommended Turtle wax chrome polish. Had to take the game apart and use alcohol to remove the polish afterwards.
I abused the hell out of my game carts when I was younger. I quickly learned blowing hot breath into it actually yielded better results than simply blowing onto the contacts. That humid air was able to help the contacts, but it definitely did have an effect on my cartridge pins. When I was in my early teens, I had to go at them gently with a scotchbrite pad and give them a well deserved cleaning.
This was pretty interesting. A lot of good stuff in here. There’s so many weird nes facts, thank you for seeking out some lesser known ones for this video :)
Thank you for bringing back some very fond memories of my childhood NES system. As I get closer and closer to the "over the hill" milestone I still remember defeating duckhunt in a basement with a scape-hole window. Never worked in my living room, lol. I remember the dedication to defeating the game back then, coming out on top. I spent untold amounts of my allowance on cheat guides/walkthroughs and have never regretted a single expenditure. The best high was defeating games with a very complex hierarchy like Tex Murphy "Under A Killing Moon". My parents probably still have all those original games, including all of my moist/hot breath corrosion. I think I have a f22 game on the 1.44? diskettes. UAKM was too much fun, playing all the funny cutscenes my childhood brain could replicate, and then when I defeated the game (thanks to a walkthrough)I was like "oh, what do I do now?" My old Pentium 100 (with a de-clock to 66 mhz) was given to my Uncle, and probably scrapped. I will miss that old beast, what with it's separate tray for a CD optical drive. I still get annoyed when an OS takes over 20 seconds to boot, but I remember waiting what felt like 20 minutes for a change of map cutscene to load. Hah, I actually remember being freaked out when my circa-1999 nokia caused those old speakers to spazz out and make very strange noises when I came back from college. Good memories refreshed all thanks to Nintendrew. OH yeah, great "forgotten" info, I don't really need to know it, but appreciate every bit I will remember!
Dude! You are a nerd in the greatest sense of the word (and with a dash of hipster). This is great quality obscure knowledge on a pretty niche topic. I just got my NES back after not having had it for some 25 years. I'm enjoying rediscovering my "classical training" -- thanks for helping me with that. Rock on!
Nintendo and Vincent van Gogh were around at the same time when Nintendo made playing cards , and these cards were somewhat popular amongst artists in Europe , so it is not impossible to imagine that Vincent van Gogh may have played with a Nintendo product.
Nintendo started manufacturing in 1889, while my mans Van Gogh died in 1890. Probably not. I assume missionaries like as early as 1902 may have visited Japan from Europe, but that's about as early as they could have been brought back to Europe. lol
The way history is taught is always totally separated by region, so it gets really weird to compare them and realize what was actually going on at the same time around the world. There was a period of time where everything was in place to make it possible for a literal Samurai to send a fax to Abraham Lincoln.
It's also not a good idea to sandpaper the contacts. Yes, it does remove the oxide layer and makes the game work but it also removes a tiny amount of copper. Some say it is gold plated but it must be very low on gold. Recently, I picked up from Atari 2600 games. The contacts were very corroded for reasons I won't go into. I sandpapered and tinned them. That means, applying a thin layer of Sn60Pb40.
Little know NES Fact. Did you know that the NES was actually going to be 10 bits instead of 8 bits. It was changed to 8 bits before Production Started on the NES. Reason for this was Cost for Manufacturing and also Cost to Costumers would have been alot Higher, Making Nintendo think People wouldnt buy the system if Cost was very high. As President wanted a Cheap but good game System that ran on cartridges.
Dang Drew - we're converging on the same timeline - lucky for you I just got a haircut. Love these facts, man - the animations are a nice touch as well!
this was very informative. didnt know half of the things about the NES system you mentioned but I also knew some things that you spoke on about the games and how to clean them and stuff even before youtube and the internet was available. lol.
I remember laughing at an NES game manual when it said the NES used "complex circuitry". I suppose swapping 8bit signatures every frame between the two controller ports to manage four was pretty complex..... By 8bit standards at least.
i dont remeber cd cases being a thing in 1985. so i dont see how they would design the cartridge to conform to that type or size of media storage such as cd cases. just sayin
It was still produced through the 90s where CDs were picking up steam. Nintendo already knew about the CDs, and knew how popular they would become, through good ol' Japanese intuition. It was a smart, but risky choice, they made very correctly.
I enjoyed your video. I grew up in the 80s and while it's nice to look back every once in a while, I certainly don't miss the days when the yellow pages where the closest thing we had to the internet.
The last thing made for the expansion port was the ENIO Expansion board by Chykn. It allows for Famicom accessories to work on the NES and enables the other sound channel.
Boy do I miss being a kid in the late 80's and 90's! Blowing in the video games when they quit working ever 10 minutes, "please be kind and rewind", tape players eating the tapes and having to use your finger or a pencil to wind the tap back together, playing with all the stickers that came with blank VHS tapes, stomping/jumping on the floor when your wood floor model tv started getting lines on the picture, your parents making you be the remote and getting up to manually push the buttons on the cable box, no phones or social media just using the sun setting as your "clock" to tell you to go home, etc.
Doesn't the "4 Player Game" icon at 13:29 look A LOT like the self-titled album cover of the band Friendship (aka the band that Koji Kondo "took inspiration from" for Super Mario Bros 1 "Underworld" music)? Looks a lot like it to me!
When you brought up the screw counts and how Punch-Out with five screws is really rare I checked to see how many screws mine has. Sadly, three. Oh well.
I will always miss playing my NES in the late 80s, early 90s. From rainy days to birthdays. Going to the video store to rent games and buying the latest game, It was all so great. 😌
this video was an excellent salve for an otherwise stressful morning. thanks so much! great bits of trivia were learned! I like and subscribe because of this
I'm just glad I got to grow up during the Atari / NES & SNES eras, I had the most fun. My life was school, sports and gaming. Today gaming is the only thing I do from back in the day so it's fun to relive old games and hear all sorts of history you didn't know about. Sure miss that era.
Just subbed. Been Nintendo since a young boy. Now 43yrs later still a Nintendo fan. Own my original, top loader and Japanese version Famicom. Your videos are great. Very informative. 👊 bump
Funny related story. Back in college art school in the late 90s I had a T Square with blue for the plastic part. A few years ago I came across one in my house with a green plastic part. This was very confusing because I only owned one so I spent like a year wondering where this other one came from. Then I remembered the yellowing of NES consoles. My blue plastic had yellowed, making it green.
I still have my NES system plus 10 games for it. I grew up in the 80’s-90’s era. My kids now enjoy it too. I’ve wasted many hours and had sore fingers from playing the game. It was an awesome time to grow up.
When the original NES came out there wasn’t CD’s available for nearly half a decade ahead. The sound medium that was popular at the time was cassette tapes in “Walkman’s”, atrax tapes from the 70’s, and vinyl records. Just a little FYI from the older days of analog everything.
2:11 total legend given in 1985 it was only sold in New York stores as a test market. The real reason was the rush to get games on shelves faster since they were in a test market. These same games were sold when it was then tested in Chicago, LA and others in 1986, before launching nationwide in 1986.
Great video! I learned a lot about my NES...yes, I still have the original NES that came with Gyromite and Duck hunt. Maybe I have one of those special NES...😁
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You are talkin about NES in 2022? No way buy a modern console
Oop
actually the video came out in 2021. the NES was pretty popular back then.
I’ll stick to retro
The Nintendo Mini was made in 2018 that same year was also super Nintendo mini Sony also made a mini with the PlayStation PC engine and Sega also did one
Modern consoles...oh the power! The graphics! Quality surround sound! Blah, blah, blah.... Yes, modern consoles are nice. But do you truly APPRECIATE them??
As a 53yo gamer who got their first gaming console in 1978 (The SEARS version of PONG), and who got the next generation's consoles every few years thereafter, I can say YES. I appreciate modern consoles. Some of my fondest memories are from playing the older consoles...playing Atari Asteroids with my cousin, NES River Raid with my Father, opening my Atari X-Mas morning in 1980(?), playing Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis with my daughter...countless great memories. Wouldn't take them back for the world. Growing up on the older gaming systems really make you truly appreciate the newer ones.
Another very cool thing is being "blown away" by playing the new next-gen console the first time every time one came out. The difference between PONG and Atari 2600? That, at the time, was EPIC. Groundbreaking. Incredible! Now we laugh at the old games but man were they ever fun at the time!!
Appreciation.
Moisture in breath… I had a friend named Rocky. We were at his house and couldn’t start Blades Of Steel. I recommend alcohol on a cotton swab. Rocky was like… naw. He put the game under the kitchen faucet and let the water flow. I was doubtful, but Blades Of Steel booted up, and we were having hockey fights in no time.
Hahaha, I had an Alex Kidd cartridge for the Master System that refused to play unless you gave it a good lick! 😂
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The NES' VHS-inspired design is the reason why we have the term "Nintendo tapes".
I'm an old school NES fan who bought my console at the age of 13 back in 1987. I love the system and know a lot about it, but still learned a lot today. Great job!
I was the same age and my friends and I spent a ridiculous amount of time and money on NES, Super NES and the N64.
I started gaming on the Atari 2600 at 4. And I was playing Mrs. Pac man at the local 7-11 by 2nd grade. From Mrs. Pac Man to Mortal Kombat arcade games I probably could have bought a used car instead of dumping buckets of quarters in to them.
Was that the buy of '87?
@@greatwavefan397 If you’re asking, were they flying off the shelves in 1987? Absolutely. I got mine Christmas of 1987 when I was 12. Just about everybody I knew had one or was playing one at someone’s house. And it seemed only boys were playing Nintendo. I think junior high school girls thought they were too cool or mature for video games back then. Yep, it was definitely Nintendo fever in 1987.
Got mine the same year at a Brendles store with fronted allowance money .
I know it's common knowledge now, but my brother and I had our minds blown when we accidentally figured out that player 2 can control the duck in Duck Hunt.
No way!
what?
Yeah we figured that out as kids we would take turns one would shoot while the other tried to dodge the shots. I honestly had forgotten about it till I saw your comment. Great memories.
We figured it out on accident as well.
Yeah, there's a number of games that work that way, which the games don't actually tell you about.
In Gotcha!, another Zapper game, where you're playing capture the flag, you normally wait as the game automatically pans left and right to get you to where you need to be. But you can have P2 actually use left and right on their pad to move you quickly. Which can be great when you need to chase down the flag carrier, or want to dodge enemy shots.
Gyromite is set up to work with R.O.B., where it would randomly raise and lower the pipes for you. But you can have P2 do that manually with their controller.
That was very interesting, but did you know that Super Mario Bros 2 is actually a reskin of Doki Doki Literature Club? 🙃
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Doki Doki Panic is Not Literature Club.
@@thesplatooanima8231 ‘‘twas a joke my friend
I thought it was based off of Dookie Dookie Sex Panic?
Hello
I grew up when video games first hit the market. I remember the days of the 2600, intellivision and colecovision. My family had the intellivision and I saved up my money to by a vectrex. Playing Super Mario 3 and Zelda on the NES was what kept my attention in my days as a young man. Clearly the titles all look very dated now but back then, it was amazing. Thank you for posting an actual informative video and lighting up the nostalgia in my mind.
My first game was attari in early 80s. I would trade games with my friends
colecovision!
Odyssey 2! Most don't know it, arguably " better " than a 2600. Had a full querty kb and a Pacman clone so good that Atari sued, called K.C. Munchkin.
And yes when the NES came out it was so amazing my dad said " this is like the real thing!"
( The real thing was the arcade)
My favorite game system was Turbo Graphics 16. The Genesis was cool too and the Atari Lynx but I also remember the 2600 and colecovision.
@@b4uc2far95 o yes I loved my TurboGrafx ( wow it was in my autocomplete! ) I even had the adapter to play PC Engine games...great system , had the wrong competitor....the Genesis, which stomped it. They came out the same Xmas and only a few people knew about it. The following year, games were few for the Turbo, I ended up getting the SNES, which was the proper answer to the Genesis, which never really interested me.
I love the bonus at the end. I have one of those SHARP NES TVs out in my garage. I bought it at a garage sale in Sioux Falls SD in 2010 fpr $10. Still works great!
Nice score!
People are selling these for over $1,000 on ebay.
I live in Brookings your lucky I didnt c it first😉
God, it's crazy how nostalgia works. Just hearing game boy camera music at random just completely threw me into another stage of my life, and everything that came with that.
It sucks sometimes and its really great others but i know how you feel,Ive been a gamer since Pong in the late 70s and i was 15 when the NES console came out,at that time i took a break from videogames from 86 to about 89, i was too busy chasing girls and drinking adult beverages but after that i got right back on it to this day,those were some great times back then, people these days just cannot possibly relate how much fun we had.
10:31 Thanks for the chemistry lesson but here's another interesting fact: This color issue didn't (and doesn't) happen to all models, at some point they changed the composition in the platic, not with the intention of preventing this but because of durability, fixing the coloring issue was just luck.
That was the first NES list of this type that didn't repeat the same thing as everyone else. Good job!
The hidden expansion port has since been used for all sorts of homebrew projects. Google Maps and a Twitter bot for NES were both made this way; pretty mind blowing that internet would even work at all
I'd imagine TASbot might utilize it as well.
AMAZING VIDEO MAN!!!
I'm 41, grew up with tail end of Atari and Born into the NES World...
U showed me atleast couple things I HAD NO IDEA exsisted!!!
I only own around 40-50 NES Games, packed away because I live on couch trying to get my own place while the world is in a Hiccup...
So when I get my own place, hopefully this year 2024... I'll DEFINITELY investigate collection now I know what I know now THANKS TO U!!
I appreciate ur effort and deep dive into these old worlds, ur one of my Top-3 Gamer Fellas I enjoy watching...
Keep up the Awesome Detail Work u provide,
Sincerely,
Josh A. Cyr (From Maine)
you could have just said "yeah, its the sunlight that makes it yellow" but you gave the actual in depth explanation and explained it, i love the little bits of above and beyond you put into your videos
Yeah, I did not expect a chemistry lesson in my Nintendo trivia video but it was pretty cool.
I think the fact that everyone smoked indoors in the 80s also played a part in the yellowing effect.
@@cclowe80 lol yep, and in the cars with the kids clambaking us and don't forget the big garbage can sized ashtrays in the mall! Because you could walk through the mall just puffing away!
Lol I totally wanted to skip that part, or at least fast forward 10 seconds... But I still didn't
@No Touchy do you know what the word gender means? like i dont want to come across as condescending or rude but do you understand what that word means in the context of biology? you sound misinformed and speaking at a grade 8 understanding of science
There's another reason they might be so big: I had a friend that was a toy tester. He got a game to test that had a prototype "save system" built in. At that time, you weren't able to save games at all. It was a large circuit board that actually stuck out a few inches from the top of a smaller cartridge. I wish I could remember the title. It's possible that they thought they'd need all that space.
I was thinking the same thing, it was probably actually a way to ensure they had space to work with if they wanted to include larger PCBs in the future. They could make a larger Famicon cart, no problem, just make it taller, but the size of NES carts could never be made larger.
I have seen a handful of cartridges with actual external switches. I've only seen two types.
The first one is officially modified cartridges for special public events by Nintendo. These are highly sought after.
The second one was modified beta cartridges by indie developers to trouble shoot their games. It was crude and done to try to troubleshoot loading issues. The cartridge itself was very butchered and was from Taiwan. Sadly no one couldn't retrieve the rom software on it though. Must have been a very early unit considering how easy and common it was to see pirated software later.
Has this been reuploaded? Congratulations on the marriage, and please do more of these videos, I love them!
Yes it has.
@@daemonspudguy really? I went through his entire channel a while back and watched every new video and I never saw this one once
@@90sNath 3 hours ago. He unlisted the original upload.
@@daemonspudguy it could have been a simple editing mistake - things do happen 😊 anyways, it's an amazing video nonetheless
As a kid, I owned the NES game Caveman Games from Data East. I knew it showed 6-player support, but didn't know about the Four Score or other adapters to connect them all at once. So in the case of this game, up to six controls are divided by 3 uses of the 2 natural NES controller ports. Every minigame on Caveman games uses 2 players at a time, but also having multiple rounds like a tournament, such as Clubbing. Players A-B would have one game, then Players C-D, then Players E-F, and winners from those (like B-C) would have a third round.
I tested this out around this time last year to figure out how it works. Also, I hope you like the B-C pun I left in there :)
That game was awesome
8:43 Just a warning: "The higher percent the better" is true, however *very* high concentration isopropanol (like 97-99%) can damage some plastics. I don't know if the plastic in NES carts is susceptible, but I think it's worth bringing up in case someone is really worried. 91% should be enough--the 9% water content ends up pretty insignificant given how little alcohol you use, and it's also free of dissolved ions.
IIRC, 91% is what Nintendo used for contact cleaner.
I remember being in a service merchandise in the early '90s and seeing one of those sharp game televisions and it was running Fester's quest as a demo and for years I thought I was having a fever dream because I couldn't find the TV or the game which I was so convinced was a sequel to blaster Master. Years later, thanks to the internet, I discovered both and was glad to know I'm not crazy
HA! I worked in a Service Merchandise warehouse. Haven't heard that name in a long while! :D
I remember seeing them back in the 80s and hearing people say that they sucked because if the tv or the NES broke it was a pain to repair and you might lose both of them.
I need more Drew, I’m old and need more videos like this to make me feel I’m back in the early 90’s
I feel ya dude.
Like literally, I feel old as hell.
Well done video. You impressed a still active old fart gamer and actually got me interested in getting various NES hardware again. I was 12 when the NES came out in the United States and consisted of a huge chunk of my fanboy years as a gamer. I went out of my way to like this video and subscribe to this channel because I was so impressed by your knowledge. No joke.
Never understood calling the NES versions the "top loader" and a "toaster."
*_A toaster is a top loading device._*
Must’ve been a mistake in the script, as the Top-Loader is the one called the Toaster I believe
@@BinglesP The original front loading system is nicknamed the toaster because of the spring loaded mechanism inside of it, not because of the cartridge orientation. Bread will spring up out of a toaster similar to how a cartridge springs back up after you press down on it in the system. The later system revision is just called the top-loader.
The OG console is referred to as 'the toaster model' not because of the way the cartridges are loaded, but because of the push-down spring mechanism which is very similar to the front handles on a toaster.
@@robertvanghle8987 it should be noted that the click down is purely cosmetic and for long life you should never click your carts down.
@@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli Not all systems will let you do that.
For #2 I had a bootleg cartridge that was actually 2 cartridges in one. If you separated them the first half worked in a Famicom console but combined they were the same size as a NES cartridge. The bottom half was essentially a Famicom to NES adapter.
No, it is not.
Loved it! Thanks for the material. The NES was my first console ever and played till my fingers hurt. I had calluses on my thumbs from playing super Mario bros.
about the yellowing affect, gray LEGO bricks also has that yellowing effect
Got my NES when I was 6 years old. And its so nice that it reached Legendary status so early in its life.
Thanks Drew. Brought back great memories. When I was a kid I went to my cousin's house after school all the time. He had a NES, and I didn't. Good times.
The Famicom yellows too. It’s very easy to get a used Famicom pretty much everywhere in Japan for about $5.00. They are super common and used game shops carry tons of old games, so getting tons of Famicom games is really easy. There is one shop that has a mint condition, sealed copy of Super Mario Bros for $800.00!
Bullshit. The literal cheapest Famicom on Japan auctions is $138. Anyone selling them for $5 is an absolute fool. The fact you END your comment by citing an example of you being full of shit is really telling.
@@Helladamnleet he said "in Japan", not "on eBay".
@@Helladamnleet LOL you think $800 for a sealed SMB is expensive
I've been living in Japan for 12 years now and have been to many used game shops all over Tokyo (including Akihabara, of course) and in more rural areas of Saitama and Kanagawa and I have never seen one so cheap. It wouldn't even make sense for them to even take up the space with something so cheap. They all have tons of games though and I have about 20 SNES games I got over the years with most of them being a few hundred yen.
I remember the controller expansion module, a buddy of mine brought that over so we could play 4 player games. Fun times!
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The top loader is the version of the NES I grew up playing since that's the one my sister had. It wasn't until maybe the mid 2000s when I saw what the original NES looked like and found the original rectangular controller design weird since it was so different from the dogbone controller I was used to.
The top loader was so weird to me... A friend of mine got one and I remember thinking they made it look so much like a cheap toy, not at all like my built like a tank original unit. Guess their original marketing worked on kids too, not just parents.
I don’t remember a top loader nes
Or dog bone controller
All that was for the snes
My parents bought me the original NES pretty soon after it came out. I remember it came with 2 controllers, the big gray pistol and 1 single game cartridge Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt
I had the toaster and never even knew about the top loader for a long time after they had come and gone.
I had tears in my eyes when I seen that Bible Adventures game my grandmother had got me when I was younger. I used to play hours and hours Gathering animals bringing back to the ark. What Memories
Another not well known and fun fact.. a large portion of the sounds used in the original NES library were composed of recordings of farts that were slowed down or sped up.. same was used in Super Mario World on the SNES.. example the sound of going through doors in Castles.. that was a recording of someone selfishly ripping a fart into a microphone.. pretty amazing really
Rotfl 🤣 selfishly
Never knew about the famicom converter in some Nes titles! I’ve been collecting for years too!! Now I need to check my nes library lol! So cool! Thanks for the info! Love learning something new about retro gaming!
Congrats on the marriage! Also I love these types of videos, keep it up!
wat
He married his NES?
Lol
Nice. I knew there were NES carts with Famicom PCBs + adapters, but didn't know about the five screws. I always love hearing the nitty-gritty details of how controllers and stuff work, too. I still remember that Nintendo Power bonus issue all about 4-player NES games.
The unused expansion bay will remain as elusive as the Virtual Boys link cable port.
which ended up being actually made and unused and unfinished code in mario tennis found and put back in to use the cable with
@@cc0rd i spent way too long as a kid dreaming of 2 player telero boxing
Wow, that was incredibly informative AND deep diving!!! Had no idea that Sharp made TVs with an NES built in!!!
I love these type of informative, educational and entertaining videos. Thank you so much for sharing!
What? Going to look at my collection of NES Cartridges tonight & see if any of my games have the Famicom Converter! I can play Famicom games for the NES now?!?
Oh this is a huge game changer for me! I have tons for my Game Boy as they were region free, but now I can collect them for my NES too! Dude. Mind Blown!!
This was incredibly fascinating! I love all the details you're able to discover about things that I would never even think to explore! Thank you for always adding to my ever growing list of obscure game knowledge!
Very well said. Thinking the same. Great video!
Another pro tip on cleaning gaming equipment. Bug infestations.
IN rare cases, but a climbing concern, bed bugs are on the rise again. If you fear they've gotten into your gaming equipment, know that the same alchol used in this video can be sprayed lightly in something like a windex bottle into controllers and the likes. Should likely remove all charge from the device, like batteries if you can remove them, but likely to survive none the less.
Further more however that's safer still, as long as you don't handle them directly, is purchasing NUVAN strips, or get them through an extermination company if y our state doesn't allow the like to be mailed to you directly. Put these in a bag or sealable gasket storage box with any equipment you are concerned may have a BED BUG or other infestation. Leave them sealed for 14 days, then remove and let them air out for an hour or so away from you to be all the safest.
Be warned that NUVAN strips are quite toxic if handled at length, but are safe enough as long as you don't spend more than 4 hours a day around them estimated. Handled safely however, these are a prime tool to saving hardware that may be infested by even some of the most durable of infesting creatures that would fit inside of them.
First Nintendrew in a bit and damn that new intro theme caught me off guard. Really awesome video, taught me some things I didn't know :O
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wow im 2nd on this comment
btw I LOVE UR VIDEOS there so cool
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OMG Bible Adventures! My super Christian grandmother knew my brother and I were into Nintendo games and bought us Bible Adventures. I honestly just thought it was a game no one had ever heard of but seeing that cartridge brought back so many memories. I had a blast playing it too.
I seem to remember a NES game that used the melody to Father Abraham as the music.
Not sure what game it was though.
I never heard of it until now. I'm picturing playing as Jesus and using his magical powers to slay all the wicked sinners. That could be fun.
I bought a 5 screw copy of Wrecking Crew building I had no idea that 5 screw games are worth more than the 3 screw. I saw people asking around $25-$40 for them. But I’m not selling it because it’s a fun little game. Still interesting to know though! Keep up the good work dude!
I had an opportunity to buy a sharp game TV about 10 years ago and I didn't do it. I've been kicking myself ever since.
So when you said the part about the voltage rating bypassing the NES's lockout chip, is that why when I insert reproduction cartridges into my Retron 5 it comes up with a voltage warning? I never understood that, but it makes sense now.
yes it is
Aaaaah the NES! I was one of the first designers working on NES titles outside of Japan. We actually had to bust the thing open to reverse engineer it, then send Nintndo some games material designed for the systyem to prove to them that we could do the job!
5:51 the purpose was to prevent theft. Back in the days we had a place called block buster. You could rent games for a couple of days or a week. Like a library book.
Bad and poor kids like myself who didnt have $60 in 87 to buy a new game would rent the newest games unscrew the game and put some corney sports title in the case and rescrew it and they would never know.
The solution to prevent this was to make the new screws to stop us from stealing the boards out amd the tabs was supposed to be "tamper evident."
We started melting toothbrushes to make new bits to open the games lol. The 80s was crazy.
I did the same thing and got kicked out of blockbuster they caught me it was hilarious but by the time they caught me I already had at least 30-40 games 😂 and that was towards the end of Blackbuster anyway I was putting old Atari cartridges in there
I worked for Nintendo in the 90's. After every repair we had to put a red sticker on the NES cover that said "Do not blow in the cartridge". Isopropanol works for cleaning moderately dirty carts, but for the bad ones Nintendo recommended Turtle wax chrome polish. Had to take the game apart and use alcohol to remove the polish afterwards.
Which is interesting because the carts specifically warn not to use alcohol.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade This was for Nintendo service technicians. They probably don't want customers pouring alcohol in in the carts.
I have my NES on my desk next to me and I am ready to learn more!
I abused the hell out of my game carts when I was younger. I quickly learned blowing hot breath into it actually yielded better results than simply blowing onto the contacts. That humid air was able to help the contacts, but it definitely did have an effect on my cartridge pins. When I was in my early teens, I had to go at them gently with a scotchbrite pad and give them a well deserved cleaning.
This was pretty interesting. A lot of good stuff in here. There’s so many weird nes facts, thank you for seeking out some lesser known ones for this video :)
Thank you for bringing back some very fond memories of my childhood NES system. As I get closer and closer to the "over the hill" milestone I still remember defeating duckhunt in a basement with a scape-hole window. Never worked in my living room, lol. I remember the dedication to defeating the game back then, coming out on top. I spent untold amounts of my allowance on cheat guides/walkthroughs and have never regretted a single expenditure. The best high was defeating games with a very complex hierarchy like Tex Murphy "Under A Killing Moon". My parents probably still have all those original games, including all of my moist/hot breath corrosion. I think I have a f22 game on the 1.44? diskettes. UAKM was too much fun, playing all the funny cutscenes my childhood brain could replicate, and then when I defeated the game (thanks to a walkthrough)I was like "oh, what do I do now?" My old Pentium 100 (with a de-clock to 66 mhz) was given to my Uncle, and probably scrapped. I will miss that old beast, what with it's separate tray for a CD optical drive. I still get annoyed when an OS takes over 20 seconds to boot, but I remember waiting what felt like 20 minutes for a change of map cutscene to load. Hah, I actually remember being freaked out when my circa-1999 nokia caused those old speakers to spazz out and make very strange noises when I came back from college. Good memories refreshed all thanks to Nintendrew. OH yeah, great "forgotten" info, I don't really need to know it, but appreciate every bit I will remember!
Not sure why TH-cam recommended this but very good video. I loved the NES as a kid.
great video. thanks for making this.
Is this why we're not getting any new battles? You're looking at NES tip's.. I'm only joking the collaboration with scruface was pretty sick.
wtf its erb
I'm not human 😈
EPIC RAP BATTLE OF HISTORY
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Wait, ERB?! You guys saw this video? WHAT?!
What is this, a crossover episode? Hey, Hey, Hey. I said Hey, what's going on?
Its so cool that even today we have stuff we can still learn. Thanks for putting all that work into this video!
Are you 7?
Dude! You are a nerd in the greatest sense of the word (and with a dash of hipster). This is great quality obscure knowledge on a pretty niche topic. I just got my NES back after not having had it for some 25 years. I'm enjoying rediscovering my "classical training" -- thanks for helping me with that. Rock on!
Nintendo and Vincent van Gogh were around at the same time when Nintendo made playing cards , and these cards were somewhat popular amongst artists in Europe , so it is not impossible to imagine that Vincent van Gogh may have played with a Nintendo product.
The Ottoman Empire and Nintendo have existed at the same time
Nintendo started manufacturing in 1889, while my mans Van Gogh died in 1890. Probably not.
I assume missionaries like as early as 1902 may have visited Japan from Europe, but that's about as early as they could have been brought back to Europe. lol
The way history is taught is always totally separated by region, so it gets really weird to compare them and realize what was actually going on at the same time around the world.
There was a period of time where everything was in place to make it possible for a literal Samurai to send a fax to Abraham Lincoln.
Man this is the first time I've ever seen or heard of the Sharp Gaming TV! I WANT!!
I knew you shouldn't blow in the cartridge. Had a copy of Top Gun: The Second Mission and it corroded. Appreciate you mentioning that, Drew!
It's also not a good idea to sandpaper the contacts. Yes, it does remove the oxide layer and makes the game work but it also removes a tiny amount of copper. Some say it is gold plated but it must be very low on gold.
Recently, I picked up from Atari 2600 games. The contacts were very corroded for reasons I won't go into.
I sandpapered and tinned them. That means, applying a thin layer of Sn60Pb40.
@@louistournas120 Glad I never attempted sandpaper or steel wool. I thought they would do damage.
Little know NES Fact. Did you know that the NES was actually going to be 10 bits instead of 8 bits. It was changed to 8 bits before Production Started on the NES. Reason for this was Cost for Manufacturing and also Cost to Costumers would have been alot Higher, Making Nintendo think People wouldnt buy the system if Cost was very high. As President wanted a Cheap but good game System that ran on cartridges.
Dang Drew - we're converging on the same timeline - lucky for you I just got a haircut. Love these facts, man - the animations are a nice touch as well!
this was very informative. didnt know half of the things about the NES system you mentioned but I also knew some things that you spoke on about the games and how to clean them and stuff even before youtube and the internet was available. lol.
I remember laughing at an NES game manual when it said the NES used "complex circuitry". I suppose swapping 8bit signatures every frame between the two controller ports to manage four was pretty complex..... By 8bit standards at least.
@13:30 Anticipation was the best four player game for the NES
I just remembered how he looked 4 years ago, our little boy is all grown up
Keep up the good work
Ps sick beard
what beard
I was a 90's kid and grew up around NES and super Nintendo. Loved the video...this info was super fascinating to me 😃
i dont remeber cd cases being a thing in 1985. so i dont see how they would design the cartridge to conform to that type or size of media storage such as cd cases.
just sayin
It was still produced through the 90s where CDs were picking up steam. Nintendo already knew about the CDs, and knew how popular they would become, through good ol' Japanese intuition. It was a smart, but risky choice, they made very correctly.
I enjoyed your video. I grew up in the 80s and while it's nice to look back every once in a while, I certainly don't miss the days when the yellow pages where the closest thing we had to the internet.
I swear I watched this already
The last thing made for the expansion port was the ENIO Expansion board by Chykn. It allows for Famicom accessories to work on the NES and enables the other sound channel.
Excellent video Drew! I actually learned a few things about the NES!
Boy do I miss being a kid in the late 80's and 90's! Blowing in the video games when they quit working ever 10 minutes, "please be kind and rewind", tape players eating the tapes and having to use your finger or a pencil to wind the tap back together, playing with all the stickers that came with blank VHS tapes, stomping/jumping on the floor when your wood floor model tv started getting lines on the picture, your parents making you be the remote and getting up to manually push the buttons on the cable box, no phones or social media just using the sun setting as your "clock" to tell you to go home, etc.
Doesn't the "4 Player Game" icon at 13:29 look A LOT like the self-titled album cover of the band Friendship (aka the band that Koji Kondo "took inspiration from" for Super Mario Bros 1 "Underworld" music)? Looks a lot like it to me!
And neighbourhood watch organisations in Australia
He spittin' bars @2:26 "whether the NES would be a SUCESS in the US!
Yes.
Man NinDrew really knows his Nintendo stuff really well especially with good information to
Epic intro music it makes me feel like im going to be entertained and not waste my time
When you brought up the screw counts and how Punch-Out with five screws is really rare I checked to see how many screws mine has. Sadly, three. Oh well.
It's good to see an interesting fact video that doesn't just reiterate what virtually everyone knows.
40kb... a new game in 2020's 50-100 gigs.
Great walk down memory lane. I'm happy to have grown up in the early days of consoles; from the Atari 2600 to the Playstation to the Xbox
Why the re upload?
That expansion port on the bottom was MYSTIFYING to me as a kid! I imagined so many things it could do, that it never did lol
*tells us this video won't have facts that everybody already knows*
*proceeds to talk about the nes top loader*
Great job...
I will always miss playing my NES in the late 80s, early 90s. From rainy days to birthdays. Going to the video store to rent games and buying the latest game, It was all so great. 😌
Im 42 and have always been an NES person. This video answered alot of questions for me. I now have the NES mini here in Australia
this video was an excellent salve for an otherwise stressful morning. thanks so much! great bits of trivia were learned! I like and subscribe because of this
I'm just glad I got to grow up during the Atari / NES & SNES eras, I had the most fun. My life was school, sports and gaming. Today gaming is the only thing I do from back in the day so it's fun to relive old games and hear all sorts of history you didn't know about. Sure miss that era.
Clint from Blerbs ect.... Mixed with the Gaming Historian ... And Tada... Drew. Lol
Just subbed. Been Nintendo since a young boy. Now 43yrs later still a Nintendo fan. Own my original, top loader and Japanese version Famicom. Your videos are great. Very informative. 👊 bump
I used to wonder why some games weighed more. I had around 60 games. Someone had given away a bunch of game to a thrift store around the SNES launch.
Funny related story. Back in college art school in the late 90s I had a T Square with blue for the plastic part. A few years ago I came across one in my house with a green plastic part. This was very confusing because I only owned one so I spent like a year wondering where this other one came from. Then I remembered the yellowing of NES consoles. My blue plastic had yellowed, making it green.
Great video! I just subbed. Gotta say, the blowing did work. Looking forward to your other videos Nintendrew!
I still have my NES system plus 10 games for it. I grew up in the 80’s-90’s era. My kids now enjoy it too. I’ve wasted many hours and had sore fingers from playing the game. It was an awesome time to grow up.
The nostalgia that you unknowingly manifest is very intoxicating one must watch in moderation, for that I am grateful . Namaste , is in order.
i could watch retro video game hardware videos all day long. subscribed!
I’ve been an avid NES player and I found this video very informing. Thanks!
When the original NES came out there wasn’t CD’s available for nearly half a decade ahead. The sound medium that was popular at the time was cassette tapes in “Walkman’s”, atrax tapes from the 70’s, and vinyl records. Just a little FYI from the older days of analog everything.
2:11 total legend given in 1985 it was only sold in New York stores as a test market. The real reason was the rush to get games on shelves faster since they were in a test market. These same games were sold when it was then tested in Chicago, LA and others in 1986, before launching nationwide in 1986.
Great video! I learned a lot about my NES...yes, I still have the original NES that came with Gyromite and Duck hunt. Maybe I have one of those special NES...😁