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Nintendo Entertainment System Turns 25

Posted by Soulskill on from the mine-still-works dept.

harrymcc writes "On October 18th 1985, Nintendo launched its NES console in the US, reviving a near-dead video game industry and establishing Nintendo as a leader in home consoles. We've celebrated with a roundup of some of the stranger spinoffs that the NES has inspired over the last quarter century, from odd controllers to a lock parents could use to disable the console to do-it-yourself projects like an NES built into a Super Mario cartridge."

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  1. So Texas Instruments isn't the only Dairy Maid? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Milking the old crusty hardware onto Americans in the form of a TI-85 Graphics Calculator, only they are 13 years behind the JAPS. This only proves that countries that have been irradiated by US Navy nuclear bombardment only repeat the same dogshit over time. So does this prove that Texas Instruments was nuked also some time ago, like how the prior Slashdot article said US almost nuked itself like 5 times in mishandling the transport of nuclear-tipped missiles and bombs?