I still have my original NES, and it still works! There¹s nothing like delving into the classic The Legend of Zelda, on my original NES! =)
---------------------------------------------- Bill Bell Asst. Technology Coordinator Monticello CUSD #25 Monticello, IL 61856 http://www.cafepress.com/tech-geeks ---------------------------------------------- On 10/18/10 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 didn¹t 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 couldn¹t 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 |
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