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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. Re:up up down down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I think it's law or something-- Konami law, if you will, that any time one recites the Konami code, it will inevitably be *wrong*

  2. Re:Crazy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Reminds me of Saturday night...

  3. Re:Crazy... by h4rr4r · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I played the NES the SNES did not exist yet.