Preserved Topic: NES (Page 1 of 1)

i wanna render the good ol' nintendo entertainment system....
anybody knows a site, with some good photos?
(me idiot has sold that thing in 1996)

dunno.... you try ebay? =)

ok..... so i was really bored........ check this site =)
http://atarihq.com/tsr/nes/nesgallery.html

ey thanx acidboy! that's great!

For more of a challenge...try the SNES instead of the NES.




Computer Senility. I had a friend once who had it. His name was Gilbert, but he prefered it if people called him 'Ramases Niblick the third...Kerplunk, Kerplunk, Whoops! Wheres my thribble?'... - Kryton, Red Dwarf.

yea, could come next.
but first i'll finish NES.
btw: SNES isnt nostalgic enough... hehe

how about doing the old Colecovision?

never heard of that, boudga.
what is it?
a vision of cocacola?

1.0) What is ColecoVision?

Coleco (a contraction of COnneticut LEather COmpany) was the first
company to introduce a "dedicated chip" home video game system, with
the Telstar Arcade in 1976. (The Magnavox Odyssey, based on Analog
technology, was the first home video game system overall, debuting
in 1973.) Trying to build upon the enormous initial success of the
unit, Coleco decided to bring out nine different Telstar models. But
within a year, 75 other manufacturers had introduced similar units,
and combined with with production snags, a shortage of chips, and a
push towards hand held games, Coleco skirted with disaster. While
Coleco sold over $20 million of hand held games, it had to dump over
a million Telstar units, and the company lost $22.3 million in 1978.
With the introduction of units with games stored on interchangeable
cartridges, Fairchild and then Atari had eliminated any remaining
market for the simple pong games.

interesting! that was before i was born!
you have one, boudga?

Boudga, your paragraph there doesn't actually mention the ColecoVision itself, just Coleco's ealier Telstar systems.

The ColecoVision was a cartridge-based home videogame console. I believe it came out at about the same time as the Mattel Intellivision, shortly after the Atari 2600. It wasn't a bad system for its time. Terrible controllers, though; I hated them with a passion. Actually, most home consoles had really terrible controllers up until the Nintendo/Genesis era.

Coleco later tried to make the ColecoVision a home computer by offering keyboard/cassette drive/etc. With all the peripherals, it was called the Coleco Adam. You could buy just the add-ons (if you already had the ColecoVision), or the whole mess in one big box. It was a dismal failure.

Companies keep trying to do the 'upgrade your videogame to a computer' thing, though. The DreamCast offers a modem (standard) and keyboard (optional). It looks as though most of the new major consoles are going to offer some sort of internet connectivity, for online gaming. I expect at least some of them to offer web browsing and such.

I had the Magnavox Odyssey, it sucked. The controllers were excellent though, and Atari's too, a stick. That's all we had to play with when I was a boy, a giant console and a stick! And - we - liked - it!

YOU HAD A STICK?????!!! When I was a lad all we had was a cardboard box full of slugs. When we wanted fun we pulled one out and slowly ran salt after it. And then we walked 15 miles buttnaked through the snow to get to school.




Computer Senility. I had a friend once who had it. His name was Gilbert, but he prefered it if people called him 'Ramases Niblick the third...Kerplunk, Kerplunk, Whoops! Wheres my thribble?'... - Kryton, Red Dwarf.