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Flashback NES
Gamespot has a piece in their Flashback series up, looking at the significance of the NES, Nintendo's original console offering in the United States. Last year the console celebrated its 20th year. Gamespot has a talk with Nintendo and reflects on the games that made the system great. From the article: "There was no denying that the NES was a phenomenon. By the 1990's one in every three American homes had an NES and video games had become a billion-dollar industry. Nintendo had taken over Saturday morning cartoons, cereal boxes, and the surface of commercial merchandise the world over. Through several different iterations, from the Japanese-exclusive Famicom Disk System to the 90's released top-loading NES, the NES dominated video game sales for nearly a decade."
20 years of broken cartridge loader springs, flashing power lights, blowing into cartridges, games wigging out while you're playing, and...
JUSTIN BAILEY
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Because you never read for enjoyment, or play silly games like chess or scrabble or whatever, right? All you do ever is work and masturbate?
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When I realizeed the Zelda series (and NES) was 20 years old, I was shocked realizing how quickly time has gone by.........
In undeveloped countries, the consumer controls the market. In capitalist America, the market controls you.
Santa brought me the Rob the Robot bundle instead of the SMB bundle. Santa is such a jerk.