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NES Goes Under The Knife
Thanks to Nintendojo for their continuing Family Computer (NES) 20th anniversary special, which is still adding new game reviews and content, but now has 'under the knife' dissection pages for both the original Japanese Famicom and the classic American NES, showing the consoles disassembled and analyzed. The rest of the site has mini-reviews of some classic NES titles, and info on oddities like I Am A Teacher: Super Mario Sweater: "Japanese appliance and sewing machine maker Royal Industries Co., Ltd. saw an opportunity to cash in with the Nintendo Famicom Disk System. Selling pixel art sweater design software for a mere 2900 yen (about $24), the company could make a fortune taking orders for custom sweaters! It sounds crazy, but it must've seemed like a good idea at the time."
Hmmm...I'm starting to like our state's cutbacks with crazy investments like this.
Now, if I could get mail order brides over this modem....although...with 16 KB of RAM, I wouldn't get to see much of her before she arrived.
More than enough BS
It comes with a free "I'm with stupid" T-Shirt, but only in sizes XXL, XXXL, and XXXXL. They've found that making other sizes of those kind of shirts is unnecessary.
More than enough BS
Someone already made the NES portable, its called the GameAxe. It plays Famicom games, but a converter will allow it to play NES. Although I can't really see how portable the system would be when you are playing aircraft carrier sized cartridges.
Oh my god, they killed that NES! You Bastards!