Somewhere I actually have a topload NES that they produced a bit after the SNES came out. Works pretty good as long as the NES carts still work. Haven't hooked that thing up in awhile though.
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Michael T. Bendorf <bendo...@a-ccentral.us>wrote: > I still occasionally play my SNES - and I still have the original packaging > from when I got it as a kid. > I also have the pieces of my original NES that I tried to repair, but it > had not stayed in my possession the whole time (it was the families at > first, certainty not just mine as the SNES was) and I have failed to repair > it. > > What I play the most on the SNES??? Super Mario All-Stars... > > --Michael T. Bendorf-- > Technology Administrator > A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262 > Google Voice: 217.408.0043 > "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during > your lectures so that I do not need you any more." > > A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for > others. > > "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the > enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers > using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." > - Alan Kay > > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Richard Kasson <rkas...@valmeyerk12.org> > wrote: > > > > I wish I still had my NES > > > > > > > > From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto: > tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Eric Barringer > > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 1:14 PM > > > > To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Oct. 18, 1985: Nintendo Entertainment System > Launches > > > > > > > > Good times! I loved my NES. > > > > > > > > The first seven notes of the Super Mario Brothers overworld music are > permanently burned into my brain. > > > > > > > > I'm particularly fond of hearing it performed on Tesla coils. > > > > > > > > -Eric > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Michael T. Bendorf < > bendo...@a-ccentral.us> wrote: > > > > http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/10/1018nintendo-nes-launches > > > > 1985: Nintendo releases a limited batch of Nintendo Entertainment Systems > in New York City, quietly launching the most influential videogame platform > of all time. > > > > Twenty-five years ago today, the American videogame market was in > shambles. Sales of game machines by Atari, Mattel and Coleco had risen to > dizzying heights, then collapsed even more quickly. > > > > Retailers didn’t want to listen to the little startup Nintendo of America > talk about how its Japanese parent company had a huge hit with the Famicom > (the 1983 Asian release of what became NES). In America, videogames were > dead, dead, dead. Personal computers were the future, and anything that just > played games but couldn’t do your taxes was hopelessly backwards... > > > > http://goo.gl/piJv > > > > --Michael T. Bendorf-- > > Technology Administrator > > A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262 > > Google Voice: 217.408.0043 > > "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during > your lectures so that I do not need you any more." > > > > A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for > others. > > > > "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the > enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers > using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." > > - Alan Kay > > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > > > > > -- > > Eric Barringer > > Technology Coordinator > > Blue Ridge CUSD #18 > > > > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >
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