Into The Heart Of The Famicom

[Mulboyne]

PCWorld: Inside Nintendo's Classic Game Console
Lots of Americans know the Nintendo Entertainment System. Fewer know the Japanese console it was based on, the Nintendo Family Computer, also known as the Famicom. We'll take a look inside the Famicom and its accessories...more...

[gkanai]

Super Potato in Akiba provides for lots of fun:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gen/1900142818/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gen/1900074452/

This gem I found in my grandmother's house:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gen/2211517/

[Bucky]

Famicon knock-off used to create a $12 computer??

"The $12 computer that a bunch of designers and grad students are talking up at an MIT conference this month as a potential, cheaper alternative to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) for Third World students is actually a knockoff of the original Nintendo Entertainment System gaming console released in the mid-1980s, reports Computerworld, and confirmed in a comment by the project's spokesman, Derek Lomas. According to Lomas' account and pictures, the Victor-70 is an 8-bit NES clone that accepts its cartridges and is wholly contained in the keyboard. It is also likely to be an unlicensed clone made in China, according to Lomas, though he notes that may not matter patent-wise in the US, due to the length of time that has passed."

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/06/1925225

[IkemenTommy]

I still consider this console as the golden era of gaming instead of today's high 3D graphics and gaming pads with complicated controls.

I remember when we would have friends spending the night on the weekends and literally play all night but the games would lack the "save" feature (either on password save or ROM-write save like they do now with all games) so we end up leaving the console on all night so that we could play the game again from the same spot when we wake up in the morning.

Yeah, the memories. Thank you, Nintendo Corporation.

[D-San]

Cool! My Fiance still has one of those.