NES Turns 25 Years Old

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-10-18 22:44
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  October 18, 1985 -- exactly twenty-five years ago today-- is the date that Nintendo of America officially acknowledges as the birthdate of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
  
  The NES was first sold in the United States in a test market launch limited to the New York area during the holiday season of that year. About half of Nintendo of America's employees of the time relocated from their Seattle headquarters to a delapidated warehouse in Hackensack, New Jersey, where they worked 18-hour days tearing through the city streets, setting up and tearing down displays, and demonstrating the product to anyone who would listen. The test market was a success, and was followed in February by a similar test in Los Angeles and then, finally, a nationwide roll-out by the end of 1986. World domination came soon afterward.
  
  The first NES sale was at the FAO Schwarz in Manhattan, where Nintendo had an impressive window display and a 15 by 15 foot floor space with several televisions. Gail Tilden, who was at the time Nintendo's advertising manager, recalls watching the first NES -- along with a full set of the additional 15 launch titles -- go through the register. The purchaser turned out to be from a Japanese competitor but, hey, a sale is a sale.
  
  We'll have additional features celebrating the birth of the NES coming up on 1UP throughout the week, including interviews with Nintendo alumni past and present. For now, we recommend blowing the dust off of your Robotic Operating Buddy, polishing up your Zapper, and celebrating the birth of the modern videogame industry in whichever way you know how.

  
  
  This Day in History: The Nintendo Entertainment System is Born
  
  So amazing that Nintendo is still alive today
  and not shafted like Sega.
• Athde wrote on 2010-10-18 23:00
  For a second their i though you meant Ness. My bad. But yeah... Unfortunately Nitendo went down the S***hole in the console business.
  R.I.P Nes
  R.I.P Nitendo 64
  R.I.P Nitendo Gamecube
  Burn in Hell Wii
  
  They're are single-handedly pioneering the handheld market though... But seriously... 3-D DS? Who wants to wear stupid 3-d Glasses while playing Kirby's Epic Yarn?
• Kansi wrote on 2010-10-18 23:08

  Quote from Athde;187236:

  For a second their i though you meant Ness. My bad. But yeah... Unfortunately Nitendo went down the S***hole in the console business.
  R.I.P Nes
  R.I.P Nitendo 64
  R.I.P Nitendo Gamecube
  Burn in Hell Wii
  
  They're are single-handedly pioneering the handheld market though... But seriously... 3-D DS? Who wants to wear stupid 3-d Glasses while playing Kirby's Epic Yarn?

  
  
  I believe that the Nintendo 3DS doesn't require you to wear 3D glasses if I recall.
• Athde wrote on 2010-10-18 23:12

  Quote from ScoutNinja;187243:

  I believe that the Nintendo 3DS doesn't require you to wear 3D glasses if I recall.

  
  
  Then how can it be 3-D? You can't visually see 3-D yourself unless you wear the glasses. Although im not beyond believing that Nitendo came up with some crazy new technology that works around that...
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-10-18 23:50

  Quote from Athde;187245:

  Then how can it be 3-D? You can't visually see 3-D yourself unless you wear the glasses. Although im not beyond believing that Nitendo came up with some crazy new technology that works around that...

  
  
  *face paws*
  you're months late
  They put the glasses free on the 3DS because it works
  There's only one way to look at a handheld screen vs. the many angles of a TV
  that's why the 3D works without glasses
  
  3D has been around for a long time.
  It's not magic
  Nintendo has been working on 3D for over 15 years
• Zid wrote on 2010-10-19 00:18
  I don't have my NES anymore.
  
  Does an emulator count? (Gets shot)
• Pwezent wrote on 2010-10-19 00:32
  I still have my NES :D
  I'm gonna go buy it a birthday cake now.