Nintendo's first major gaming console, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), heralded the birth of video games we know and love today. Here's 10 things you may not have known about it.
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Nintendo's first major gaming console, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), heralded the birth of video games we know and love today. Here's 10 things you may not have known about it.
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Actually, Metroid had multiple endings, and was released a year earlier than Castlevania II! Busted!!!
This, kind of surprised they missed this considering Metroid's endings are so well known.
+Duke Jaywalker I was looking for this comment. That was the first thing I thought.
+Duke Jaywalker was totally gonna post this until I saw yours. Almost all of these old school game "trivia" channels, have some glaring issues with their facts. This is NOT that hard people, do your effing homework.
+Duke Jaywalker The reason he didn't mention it is because almost every youtube top 10 is google searched and what I mean by this is: Anyone can make a top 10. step1: think of a concept step2: google facts about that concept step3: take your google search and make a top 10 step4: ???? step5: profit.
+humulos i often notice that Metroid gets overlooked in favor of Castlevania. i know they basically define a genera of games together, but still...
Don't be hatin' on knitters or knitting, Gameranx. You have no idea how much work and love goes into each project. The knitting machine would have been awesome.
+Mattheu Farmer maybe you're right. Gameranx apologies to any knitters offended by this video.
I started self-knitting because of what you did, you better of apologized. I will forever be scarred.
+Mattheu Farmer Man, I really want to take up knitting one day, honestly. I believe it would be a really cool and fun skill to learn! :D
+Mattheu Farmer Yeah agreed
Obvious troll is obvious.
I think everyone that owned duck hunt used to try and shoot the dog at some point
*5:03* *"That Smug Bastard!"* LMFAO! I totally just choked on my coffee, laughing so hard.
"... The evil game publishers of today." *shows picture of EA*
+It's a Llama So true lol
EA is good compared to Konami
+Batnoodles poor kid you know nothing of this world ahahah Konami is shit , EA is nightmare shit and Ubisoft is way worse than those 2
MrBOx195 Assassin's Creed - Jesper Kyd = SHIT
thronecode all Assassin's Creed after Rogue are shit.....ACIII and Unity are shit
There actually was a game boy color game that worked with an embroidery sewing machine.
Each sprite was also a mere 8x8 pixels and could only contain two colors. However, there was a "big" sprite mode where each sprite was 8x16 pixels. The trade off for giving up screen resolution was that each 8x16 pixel sprite could now contain four colors. Barring any sound expansion chips, the NES was capable of producing sound that had five voices - 2 square waves (usually for leads), 1 triangle wave (usually for bass), noise (drums) and PCM (used for sound samples). Each NES game was also programmed using 6502 Assembly because the NES used a modified 6502 Processor. Its graphics were handled by a PPU (Picture Processing Unit).
Half of the facts aren't even about the NES
lmao . true
Tu Maldita Madre That's because u didn't watch the video u big hat wearing fool. Your seat belt must be on too tight suffocating the air that's suppose to go to your brain allowing u to think logicly lmao
red crimson102 people told me about people who insult people for being wrong, go insult somebody else for being wrong.
yeah and other half are not even true
Holy Diver didn't have a ridable tiger, I'm disappointed.
+Space Monkey total bullshit 2/10
+Space Munkey you win the internet
yes!
would have been awesome to see it's stripes and know that it's mean. don't you see what I mean?
Best post I have seen in a long time!!! Gotta get away Holy Diver!!!!
Evolution of Graphics on Nintendo?
they haven't changed...
Ausse🐰wabbit how?
+Masik Egede their games don't change much. I just don't understand why they can make the same games every year and no one cares but games like cod can't (cod is shit imo)
+Ausse🐰wabbit because nintendo games are good, while COD (as a whole, individual games can be neat) is not.
Ausse🐰wabbit they make new level design in every new console
Love the NES, so glad it came out when it did, perfect timing for the age I was. Addicted me for life to gaming.
Metroid was released BEFORE Castlevania II, and Metroid also have multiple endings. Sorry bro.
mikel9292 I think Bubble Bobble was actually the first game with different endings
Craig B Checked the exact dates: Simon's Quest was first released Aug. 28 1987, Metroid Aug. 6 1986, and Bubble Bobble Aug. 1986 (date uncertain). Thus, it's very likely Metroid was first!
Thane Eternick I only remember someone saying Bubble Bobble was first from an episode of Black Mirror
Craig B As I can't (or rather don't feel like digging deeper to) find a specific date for the release other than "August," it's inconclusive. Additionally, as Metroid was Aug. 6, I find it likely Metroid was earlier.
Nice touch point out the nintendo seal of quality on superman 64. :)
+clay jack you got it!
tee hee.
Yoshi was rideable on an NES Mario game called Mario's Missing. Although, it wasn't much of a Mario game to begin with. So, the hardware of the NES could've made a rideable Yoshi.
+BarackObamaLikesPoop Also, there's a hack for SMB3 called Super Mario Bros. 3 Mix, and it contains a fully functioning rideable Yoshi, with the same features from SMW.
+BarackObamaLikesPoop Yeah they didn't give much detail in the video. I've heard that the actual reason was the NES controller only had two buttons, and the mario designers (maybe Miyamoto himself) wanted a dedicated button for dismounting Yoshi. I suppose they could've used pressing A and B together or something, but waiting for a controller with more buttons more or less makes sense.
+taylor sharp it would be up and a. at least it makes more sense that way to me. it would be hard to run and jump at the same time while riding yoshi if it was a and b. to many mistakes would be made
Well, that game was very small. And by that time, the devs knew how to keep hardware strain down.
what about the super Mario world bootleg port for the NES. almost all elements made it to the NES version.
The NES will always be legend, survived a wave where gaming almost wanished, revolutionised the whole style of gaming with the 2D and the debut of the best game character of all time, Mario!. Bro, SMB3 has a very special place in my heart til this day. I remember dressing up as Mario as a kid with a beret 😅😂🤣. Ah, the nostalgia I wanna go back to those simple times! ;') 😌🤗❤️
I knew about Holy Diver, but only because I saw the James & Mike on it a few days before I saw this video. I've also known about the Nintendo TV thing for quite a while. I remember hearing about the lockout chip controversy as a kid in the late 80s, so I knew about that one way longer than any of the others. I didn't know any of the other stuff, though. Good video!
i still have the nes, anybody else???
+The Suicide Saint yeah, mario and punch out were the best
+The Suicide Saint i had castlemania, but my little brother broke the cartridge
Yup. Still use it regularly.
I have Retron 5 plays Most nes snes and sega.
Have one myself but still restoring.
Didn't Metroid come out before Castlevania 2 and offer different endings based on how quickly you beat the Motherbrain?
Looked it up castlevania 2 came out in 1987. Metroid was a year earlier with 1986 as the release date. so they glt that fact wrong.
yeah I reacted to that aswell. now 1+ million people gonna be clueless on which game which was first with multiple endings.
Yes it was, and yes it did. If you beat Metroid fast enough, Samus would remove her helmet revealing she was female.
I wouldn't really label that as an "ending," though. The CVII endings offered different narrative conclusions. Despite being variations of the same sequence, the outcomes are quite different, including menacing implications, including Dracula coming back to life.
Symantics...
I've been checking out a bunch of your vids today. Good stuff! Subscribed.
tv/vcr combos have existed in the 1980s and through the 1990s. the comparison of nes/tv combo to smart tv makes it seem ahead of its time, but it wasn't ahead of its time, that was its time. it was right on time. but it is kinda cool, i never knew that existed.
metroid was released before simons quest and had time specific endings
Joseph Demjanick this is 100% correct wonder why it wasn't given more credit
metroid gave you 5 outfit endings, Simon's quest had 3 different story endings
I knew about the HOLY DIVAH! one because of James Rolfe.
James and Mike Monday's
Cinemassacre for the win
the ROM is easy to find online. it is a pretty good game
Actually, I played the SNES version of Where's Waldo as a kid, #2 I've known about for a while, and #1 I had forgotten about completely until I went to a video game museum in Frisco, Texas.
Dyonus how's that museum?I live close to it but havnt gone,I hear they have am 80s arcade
Wow! I've been around the "Nintendo Block" since the release of the console and been a gamer ever since. Still, I wasn't aware of over half of these. Thanks guys. Great video.
The Adventures of Lolo 1, 2 and 3. Great puzzle games for NES. I've still got them.
my fave was the 64 😊
Mine too
mine was pc. i am a pc gamer since i was like 5-6
+{OfiR} PCs are great but you can get every game especially Nintendo games and emulautors don't count.
+IN3ViTABL3 CONS3QU3NC3S yes emulautors are great but you don't get the full experience
It is the best system with the best games ever
"Hearalded the birth"...Atari, Commodore, Mattel and Coleco must be feeling very confused.
Yeah, remember Paul Norman and his Forbidden Forest games for the C64?
The hands free is so thoughtful in my opinion. I love that they thought to help kids who just want to play like everyone else. GOD bless
I had a NES with my brothers but we woke up our dad before a 12 hour night shift multiple times that day. He came into the room yanked the NES out of the wall and made fly out a 3 story building LOL. Soooo as a kid most of my Nintendo time was with the SNES and most of my memories as a kid playing Zelda, Mario Kart, Yoshis Island, Star Fox, Oger Battle, Mario Paint and many more. My fav will always be my SNES and I still have it to this day in working order. Every now and then I will play it for a hour or two.
Legend of Zelda was the first game to have a save feature, correct? You forgot that fact
Just sucked having to take it apart to change the battery. Still, the first game I binged, sundown to sunup.
I really, really wish I knew you could replace the battery when I was a kid. I lost all my saves because the battery died. :/
+astrosteve - You can't take it with you. :(
Download the classics on the WiiU/3DS virtual console. Then you can experience it all over again :)
I still have my Zelda with the same battery iin it. It works still
DQ4 is 512 KB not 1 MB (Kirby is 768 KB and the only 1 MB cartridge is Metal Slader Glory ) Galaxian is 16 KB
Thankfully someone got the DW4 (was technically dragon warrior due to copyright issues of course) size correct, it was only 4 megabits or 1/2 megabyte in size. The true reason reason it became a 1 megabyte cartridge was because early emulators were unable to load the game until someone figured out doubling the size fixed the problem.
Similar thing with Galaxian. Marat Fayzullin, inventor of iNES and thus the iNES mapper system, set ROM bank loads to 16 KB, presumably because he wasn't aware of Galaxian's smaller 8 KB size. As a result, there are no "true" Galxian ROM in general circulation; all are overdumped to compensate for iNES' limitations.
Not to mention if he really wanted to talk about "large NES games' Action 52 would be the top, since it is over 2MB of data, because of that crappy mapper.
"What is the biggest NES game ever made? The largest single NES game that I know of is Dragonquest 4 / Dragon Warrior 4. It has 1 megabyte of program ROM. Also, the Japanese game Metal Slader Glory has 512K of PRG and 512K of CHR ROM, making it also a full megabyte. Several pirate/unlicenced Famicom games are also pretty large." Directly from NESDEV website. This is probably where the guy got much of his information. As far as the DQ4 being doubled in size, it seems there is a wiki that mentions this but that was only updated about 10 days before this video went up on youtube.
bootgod's database has been around for a while, and correctly lists DQ4/DW4 as a 512kb PRG-ROM using chr-ram for video data. It would have been a really simple thing to check up on. I think the game was dumped as a 1MB file at one point causing this misinformation.
I knew about half of these and quite a few things that they didn't mention (for example, the Life Fitness Life Cycle--an actual exercise bike that worked with the NES or the Miracle piano keyboard OR the reason why the light gun isn't grey, anymore or that there was going to be a Gameboy adapter for the NES from Biederman Design Labs) but I have to admit, this was a good video with some really good trivia. Good job, guys!
Another interesting fact about the NES/Famicom family of consoles. The Famicom had an expansion called the Famicom Disk System, which ran on its own proprietary version of a floppy disk(that alone reminds me of the Gamecube's own mini-disks). One of the notable features of the FDS is that it had an additional chip for slightly more complex music.
1.00 Megabytes = 1.048,576 Bytes.
depends
John Smith THANK you
What about Metroid with multiple endings? Should that not be the first?
No, because you probably kmow about that already. Im not sure, but i know how to find out. Gimme a sec...ill be right back....
Hey bro...im having a convo with someone at the moment and i need to know if you know about the two metroid man levels
@@jasonspades5628 metroid man levels? Not ringing a bell. I only played the first Metroid and Super Metroid, but mostly remember the first one
So, i just spoke with a friend of mine, and he said it wasn't ringing any bells. He only played the first metroid and super metroid.
In the late 80s/early 90s Nintendo had a coin-op bar top system that came with a handful of built in games. I remember Fester's Quest, TMNT, Contra, Super Mario Bros 2 being on it. I've tried finding one but have had no luck.
woah its been like 20+ years since NES was released but still theres something new that we don't know. Thanks for this vid gameranx.
No the NES did NOT kick-start consoles. That goes to the Atari 2600 which made consoles and home video games popular in the first place.
Yeah, I don't know. NES definitely re-kick started it then.
Did he say that Where's Waldo was "Impossible to beat"??? That's one of these easiest games TO beat!! I can beat it in like 10 minutes..
Did you click everywhere?
+The Video Game Mixer Does it matter one is a button smaher or not. Bootsy beated Silver Surfer just from doing that... smashing buttons really fast. A game in which AVGN thought it was impossible to beat, yet here is Bootsy whose button smashing won the game. >_> people should soooo stop the obnoxious, stick up their ass attitude towards button smashing... it fucking works, get over it!!!
Actually I dont mash buttons on Where's Waldo. I just know what he looks like and the game is predictable and has recognizable patterns once you figure it out. I beat it as a kid.
Neat video, I almost wish that knitter peripheral was a thing. The SNES is my favorite Nintendo console... favorite console ever really.
I was familiar with most of these, but the knitting machine was a surprise, along with the DVD-enabled Gamecube.
Number 9 is semi-bullshit. Nintendo did say it was impossible to include Yoshi in an NES Mario due to hardware limitations, but it turned out to be untrue. (Yoshi is rideable in the NES port of either "Mario's Missing" or "Mario's Time Machine".)
+Ben Phillips I was thinking that very same thing.
Ben Phillips miyamoto wanted mario to have an animal buddy to ride, but noticed the nes was too weak. when the snes came to be he realised his original idea by creating yoshi, that's how it went
I'm pretty sure it was due to memory & that Luigi & Yoshi were just one character in terms of programming, but I've not seen much gameplay.... So I could be wrong.
Yeah there's no hardware limitation. You could just replace the Mario and Yoshi sprites with a single sprite when the two touch.
Not to mention Super Mario 3mix (SMB3 hack)
Umm, Metroid had multiple endings before Castlevania II.
4:00 many conversion vans in the US had the TV Console NES installed in the 89-90's Models for Chevy and I assume ford.
"Survived a while." Kids and their limited perspective. The Nintendo is my favorite gaming specific console and I still enjoy my top-loader to this day. Definitely looking forward to when they [purportedly] start production of the NES Classic back up later this year.
gameranx presents 10 NES Facts You Probably Already Knew.
Check Emuparadise for Holy Diver. They might have the rom for use in a NES emulator.
+Eugene Johnson They will be for everyone in the future, when the technology is no longer produced and the original hardware is dead (It WILL die, all things die). So the only way to play will be emulators as not everything will get a compilation release. I thought the proper fans of gaming would care about preservation...guess not.
Dude, that was amazing. I was expecting stuff I already knew.
First time watching your channel and you won a subscriber mate!!
"Most Nintendo games were pretty darn good"... someone hasn't checked that library. XD Sure they have some brilliant amazing games, but they also had a giant pile of turds to bolster than library.
As does every. Single. Console. And. Arcade. Cabinet. Not. To. Mention. PC. And. DOS. And. Apple. You: *stammer* SILENCE.
Point? I mean, I agree, but no-one was disputing that. :/
Um. How? I didn't say the Nintendo library was any different to any others. I just disagreed with the "MOST" part of the original statement. I think MOST Nes games were awful, but there were a few golden gems that have outshone their reputation. For every Metroid, Zelda and Mario game, there were 3 terrible sports games, 2 terrible movie-based joypad-fodder, and 1 collection of 52 disasters. :P So nothing nullified... just me being pedantic at worst.
most nintendo games are trash. a small % (maybe 50 at most out of nearly 800) are good quality and even then 10 of those are masterpieces. that's a terrible % of success.
#1 The CEO of LJN isnt satan
Just a Laughing Joking Numbnut
LJN is in league with SATAN
I taught I really knew everythings about the NES but I'm impress that I still learn and remind me this warm feeling of discovring all these little secret about this mystic console :)
Atari burned same way mobile is now, tons of crapware on the market
Accept most mobile games are "free" to play where Atari was not. Won't see the same crash yet, at least not when free-emium games are the top earners.
The mobile market sucks. It's not even real gaming. Tapping a screen while the game basically does everything for you isn't fun. Nintendo invented throwing the controller after spending your 3 lives. Games should be fun but also should feel rewarding when you play and beat the game after getting sweaty palms fighting that boss. Mobile games usually don't require skill but man do they want your money. Spend $2 here, $5 there to "boost" your minions.
+hatch82 dude you don't know how I pitty the kids now a days. it's like all those arcade pride we have before when you take the high scrore is now reduce on how much you can pay for your game and have your game pimped up
They not all bad, its like saying every console or PC game is great.
Jonathan Maughan the guy wasn't talking about the graphics the guy was merely pointing out in order for you to have a good high score is you better have some skill to beat the program now half of your score is done by the program. Now if you have the money to cough up you'll have better gears before to get better gears you'll need to find, discover, explore the whole game and doesn't cost you money either. Sure the graphics are eye candy now a days but gamers before who grew up in those Era they feel like there's something missing from playing a game and that is the competitiveness of newer games. When your rank no 1 in a mobile game there only mean 1 thing it's either you have played the game long enough before the others or you have the extra cash to burn.
oh my... your own images prove you incorrect instantly, how many names did he get wrong? how many contradictions were made? how was the gamecube dvd console 'not the first time' a console and a tv were combined...seriously, so many facts were mangled, left out, and just aggregated easily without any research. also the google image search images of everything weren't well timed, often stepping on the naration too early. valid critiques only make us better, so i hope you can accept these.
"how was the gamecube dvd console 'not the first time' a console and a tv were combined" Because the My Computer TV-C1 was released in Japan in 1983, and the Super Famicom version was released in 1990. The Gamecube DVD Console was released in 2001. Simple chronological order will tell you why the Gamecube version wasn't first.
+rexfellis plus the PS2 and original Xbox both could play dvds right off the bat and both came out before even the original vanilla Gamecube.
That region control chip in the bonus section is the one that makes NES games to start blinking in a one color screen. You have to remove some pins from it in order to make the NES work again like new. I have my NES working again.
Good video. I wanna see an AVGN video review of the knitting machine.
Should have mentioned Atari lied to obtain the NES lockout chip code and released their own NES games. Like just imagine today SONY making Xbox exclusive games or Microsoft making only sony games
+Ted E Bear They actually produced good games. It was the CEO that didn't like its terms (For example, if you release a game on NES it must be exclusive for that platform for 2 years) and used that chip after a chip shortage.
Kaminishi Atari also produced licensed Nintendo games eventually. Nintendo was greedy though you had to buy the cartridge cases from them if you make a game and you had to buy something like 30000 making it hard for indy dev teams
+Ted E Bear If you are referring to Atari's TenGen line of nes games, the licensed version of those games (such as Gauntlet and RBI Baseball) were out before their unlicensed versions.
+Ted E Bear even bigger news Nintendo went to ATARI in 1984 to produce the Famicom under the ATARI name, believing American would want to buy them instead of a Japanese-named product!! True story, look it up, but Atari passed in favor of their upcoming 7800.
+Jude Law No, Atari passed on it because of Coleco. Coleco put a version of Donkey Kong on it's Adam computer, Atari had the home computer rights to Donkey Kong so Atari was pissed thinking Nintendo was trying to screw them and talks broke down about Atari bringing the Famicom to the west.
10 things most actual gamers knew
The reason you can't shoot the dog in Duck Hunt is because they are programmatically part of the background as far as the NES hardware is concerned. Only the ducks themselves are treated as sprites. That Nintendo was already able to do layered backgrounds even back then was a mindjob of itself, but that's beside the point. The point is that unfortunately, the dog was never programmed with any collision in mind. That is, until Vs. Duck Hunt that was primarily only in arcades. In that game, you could enter a bonus round where you could shoot other flying debris for points, but you'd also see the dog running around to chase it. And here, he does have collision, and it will count as a hit. Pretty sure anyone that had the opportunity to play the game on the period-correct arcade cabinets played at least to the point where they could finally nail him. PETA jokes aside, that Duck Hunt dog is infamous for making anyone and everyone hate him earlier and easier than the kind of terrible people that your garden variety celebrity media outlet won't shut up about.
The NES used the same 8 bit processor MOS6502 as the Commodore64, Atari 2600 as well as the Apple II & III and I believe the Tandy TRS-80 machines. That processor was used for many years and formed the computer industry for many years.
talks about evil corporations, shows EA +1
Do 10 N64 fact you didn't know.
Metroid and Kid Icarus were both released prior to Castlevania 2. The ending of Metroid also relied on the speed in which you completed the game while the ending of Kid Icarus was determined by the strength of Pit's arrows. (Power ups for the arrow were earned by entering certain rooms after reaching a predetermined score.)
I knew 3ish of these. also that knitting thing looks AWESOME
Top fact 11: You can hack a Nintendo NES in the Original Xbox
Hands Free: Only 120$ for the disabled kids. Nintendo... because we care.
+Vincent GR people wil work for free indeed
groenekever No. It sould be a gift to children or a very low price. Nintendo wouldn't vanished by this move. And how many pieces you think there where be?
Are you suggesting disabled people are incapable of generating income?
4cyl_LOL Not at all, just a goodwill move.
+Vincent GR lmao ok
thanks for the video never knew that about RR very cool,,
I had the original NES and then I also had the version they had a picture of at 5:11. Pretty cool. I think I preferred the second one I had because it didn't mess up as much, also if it did I got a special pink cartridge that helps the system if it did mess up. Also cool.
Lets get one thing straight , the NES SYSTEM was not "a good" console..... it was/ IS a wonderful lil console that saved the gaming industries and should be held in the highest regards and be put in museums . Yes I am being serious . Sadly my original NES broke when my 3 yr old cousin spilled his drink over it and it fried . 20 yrs of fun gone in seconds . A moment of silence , please .
buy another one there are like 60 dollars on ebay with wires and controllers
The NES did not save the gaming industry in Europe or Japan. Americans need to stop spreading this myth. Europe had a billion dollar gaming industry which was nothing to do with Nintendo.
Love the 12 year olds in the comments... "N64 was my fav" "I don't remember the NES, but I consider myself a gaming expert" The internet and online gaming needs to remove these annoying shits and put them back in the nursery. They ruin GTA V.
I consider myself a gaming buff and im 18 so i werent present when the NES was released, and i never had one either however my first games console was a SEGA megadrive, (Genesis in the US) I've had the SNES, and pretty much every console onwards.. I don't think you need to have had the NES to be a gaming "Buff" you just have to appreciate it.
What does people liking Nintendo 64 have to do with 12 year olds?
+Julianus Maximianus _I don't remember the NES, but I consider myself a gaming expert_ Are you referring to the guy who said "I didn't know any of these, and I consider myself a game buff" ? The title of the video says, 10 FACTS you probably didn't know. When he says I don't any of these, it implies he wasn't aware of the FACTS presented in the video. Nowhere does he imply he doesn't remember the NES. I remember my NES, I still even have my NES but I didn't know most of these facts in the video. I'm pretty sure everyone who grew up with the NES do not remember or even knew about all these facts in this video.
+Julianus Maximianus I'm 12 and I own an NES. And I didn't inherit it, I got it from Amazon. I love playing it.
Great video! What's the background music? It's pretty cool.
In 1987 Maniac Mansion released on the Commodore 64 had multiple endings too and is older. It was eventually ported to the NES in 1990
"Most Nintendo games were pretty darn good" lolwat? >90% of the NES library is unplayable garbage.
Compared to today's games but back then we thoroughly enjoyed nes games
So many wrong 'facts'. At least do your homework before you post a video like this.
4:07 Just a couple of years ago Vizio TVs came out with OnLive gaming built in.
Knitting machine! I would so totally get one! Plus my zapper is the grey one...so much more realistic
There's another tidbit about the NES that most people do not know. If you look on the bottom of the console you will find a section that can be removed exposing an expansion port.The plans for this port were for a future expansion module that would include a dial up modem. Yes, a dial up modem for online game play. In 1985. The modem was never released and there were never any other modules planned to use the expansion port.
i knew this already, mainly i clean the motherboards of my consoles, and had to pin-mod a son of a bitch known as the 72-pin adapter aka the cartridge slot, saw the expansion port, researched, and learned this and that one of the modems would connect to a SEGA GENESIS online. it was to have games that could be cross-played together by people on nes and genesis, this was called teleplay modem, and was discontinued because console war, but more interesting, one of the founders of ATARI, Nolan Bushnell, worked on its prototype but back out, but before that made Chuck E. Cheese's. all that from a single expansion port. there was another with an adult gambling game modem but was stopped for obvious reasons and the famicom (japan) had a disk (notice the k) drive add-on that data could be stored on a floppy disk (marking it the only console to have floppy drive besides the Sega Saturn japan only) which caused the Japanese Legend of Zelda, Kid Icarus, and Metroid to change for ntsc release (america) giving zelda a battery, and the rest dread password system. hope this was not a bore to you
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Dragon Warrior 2 unknown fact: One time I prevented Hargon's attack on Moonbrook Castle and took on the king as the main character. The traditional castle music played throughout Moonbrook, the princess was the one who saved your game, the guards were the merchants and innkeepers, however you still had to fight battles within the castle walls, leading to usually an instant death, unless lucky enough to flee battle. I was also able to walk the character on the walls, water and mountains. Unfortunately, the quest was short because when I turned the console off and later went to play, it was all erased and I couldn't figure out how to do it again. This happened in 1992.
You know, many conversion top vans in the early 90's(one's with TV's) came with an original Nintendo built into van. Not the console model most people own(ed) in the US, rather a more compact, yet somewhat common version of the console. I know my 1992 GMC Vandura Starcraft had one built in. Though it's no longer there, I see references to it in some of the original manuals.
I still have my old nes and snes and both still work and I still currently play them!
So how does the gun work for the duck hunt game? I remember playing it for the first time, my cousins family was the first to get one anywhere close to home so we played on it as soon as it came out. It was so ahead of anything else at the time.
on duck hunt...nearly everyone ive told did not know you could use the controller to play or fly the duck...which added some fun 2 player action.
......one thing i forgot to mention when seeing this vid before is that they DID make a ps2/tv combo. they stuck a ps2 with bravia i believe it was was that was 22 or 24 inches big. It looked decent even tho ps2 games werent really meant to be played on screens larger than 19" or so. I think it may have had anti aliasing too.
Hummer Team made an NES/Famicom backport of Super Mario World, complete with Mario riding Yoshi. copies on original cart are incredibly rare, but the rom is widely available.
the Japanese nes had an advanced audio processor that wasn't available in the US version, it also had a keyboard add on and 3d capabilities but there were next to no games that supported the 3d hardware and the resolution was so low that it was considered a bad idea to make games that supported the 3d hardware. the two big problems were that 1) running a 3d game at 30fps meant that each eye would only see 15fps causing things to look choppy and could cause headaches 2) the glasses had to be hard wires to the console by a cord which limited seating distance. the new also supported motion controls and quite well but again the game selection was quite limited and required you to have a crt tv within a certain size range
NES bionic commando. Used love that game. I still have a soft side for the atari but I have to admit the nes was ground breaking. Even today they are fun to relive.
in the duck hunt game you could control one of the ducks with controller one lol had lots of fun with that one
Yoshi is ridable in Mario is Missing on NES
Regarding systems built into televisions, there actually was a PS2 built into an HDTV a few years back in the UK... Sony Bravia KDL-22PX300.
Lol at the lock out chip screen complete with the 4th pin cut therefore defeating the chip. I remember when I was a kid my mom bought me a game that wasn't officially licensed and the instruction manual had a section on how to take apart and mod the system to make it work.
The NES Zapper working only on CRT is correct, a few months ago I hooked up my Sega Master System to my flat screen for my nephew to play and just like the NES Zapper the SEGA Light Phaser also only works with a CRT TV leaving my LED crying.
Something I figured out early on in Duck Hunt: If you hold the gun to the screen and shoot, then you could hit the targets every time. IDK why, but it worked on mine.
this just makes me miss my old nes even more.
I didn't know the hands free was so rare. I got not off of a friend to adapt a contoler to act as an input for my friends teenager. he had limited mobility in his hands so it's complicated to use a mouse or eve a roller ball. (I tried adapting those first. eventually settled on this). today you can adapt a play station controller to work far better.
Intro correction- Pong was the first console "hit" but you could argue that the Atari VCS "2600" was the first hit. 10- Metroid that came before it had different endings. 9. There is a statement given from Nintendo that said that they weren't able to put Yoshi in the Mario NES games due to limitations, but it was an excuse. Mario is Missing fro the NES had Luigi riding Yoshi throughout the game in platforming stages. An unlicensed pirate port of Super Mario World does a decent job of having Yoshi in the game for the NES. 8. Yes I did know about that game, and there were many exclusive games for the Japanese Famicom that didn't make it to the U.S. and vice versa. 7. Dragon Quest IV is not the largest, larger games include Metal Slader Glory and Kirby's Adventure. 6. I did know about the hands free controller, but most people didn't, so that's a good one for the list. 5. There's actually 2 Waldo games on the NES, and the fact that there is a Waldo game on the NES is common knowledge. 4. This was widely publicized on the internet when it happened. 3. "We don't have any tvs today that have consoles built in!" Yes there are, Sony makes tvs that have built in Playstation 3 systems. 2. Good note, it was more advanced than previous light guns. 1. Cool fact! (Do some research before releasing one of these "FACTS" videos that half a million people will watch and take as "fact.")
I wanna knit with power! It would be quite cool designing pixel art then knitting it with a NES.
Solomon's Key, released in '87, had different endings as well. Not sure if it came out b4 Castlevania 2.
I think the game penguin advenure (Msx) already had a multiple (2) ending depending a single element (if you have an odd or even number of pause in the game).
when I was a kid I saw luxury van for sale that had the TV/NES combo
the NES game FELIX THE CAT had ridable vehicles so no limitations there
+TheMATEMAGICIAN It also came out later.
It's definitely not a "hardware limitation" though! There's no reason Yoshi shouldn't work on the NES. But whenever you're making a game on old hardware you're always gonna make compromises, and this would be an obvious one to take. It's easier for video game journalists to just translate developer mumbo-jumbo into "hardware limitations" I guess.
there is a hardware limit. You can only have 8 8x8 spriteblocks on a given line, Yoshi attacking would have consumed all 8, meaning any time yoshi attacked, the game would have to flicker
The part of the NES that actually read the contacts of your game cartridge was a standardized part. If you know the model number and have tinkered inside PCs for a while, you have all the tools you need to fix the #1 NES hardware failure problem.