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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:Crazy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    SNES came much later and SNES didn't bandaid the western video game industry.

    Funny how you link to a ROM site when your home page is some open source software advocacy page behind the guise of a fictional video character's name of "J.C. Denton"