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History & Information On The NES |
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Nintendo released the NES system in 1983 in Japan, and 1986 in the USA which awoke a
dying gaming industry. The reason the gaming market was so bad at that time, was because
all of the best gaming companies of the time like Atari, INTV, and Coleco were either out
of business, or no longer produced home system or games. The NES turned out to be one of
the most successful console systems ever made. In fact, about 62 million units of this
classic system had been sold during its reign! To top that off, there were over 400 games
made for this system and over a million games sold! Some people will say it is the most
sold game system EVER. Over time, the NES had many hit titles to its name......like Super
Mario Brother 1/2/3, Contra, Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania, and Final Fantasy!
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- The NES featured a the 6502 8-bit processor running at 1.79/mhz.
- It had 16/kbit of system memory and also 16/kbit of video memory.
- It is capable of displaying a resolution of 256x240 with 16 colors. But
capable of
displaying 52 different colors. Sprites were able to be up to 8x8 pixels in size, with a total of 64 on the screen
at any given moment. Cartridges held anywhere from 192/kbit to 4mbit
of information.
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- Some very interesting add-ons were made for the NES, some
good, and some not so good. But in my opinion, the best one
would have
- to be the gun
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- A red gun that was sold with the game Duckhunt. You point the
gun at the TV screen and shoot. And the game knows if you hit or miss! =D
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- Every time you pull the trigger on the Zapper, the NES redraws
the screen a little bit different. The "shoot able" things on the screen are
drawn in white and everything else is in black. The zapper has a little sensor that can
tell light from dark and if the sensor "sees" a white spot on the screen, it is
a hit. Otherwise, it's a miss.
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Rating 8/10
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- Robotic Operation Buddy (R.O.B.)
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- R.O.B. was a little, one foot high, legless robot which
interacted with the videogames compatible with it (e.g. Gyromite and Stack Up). When
released in the US it was included in the Original Set together with the control deck, two
controllers, the Zapper and two games, Gyromite and Duck Hunt.
The robot had a sensor in his head which detected when the TV flashed in different
ways. The robot could do things like pick up a chip from a stack and then drop it on a
pad that opened a door in the game. The robot was a creation of the famous Nintendo
employee, Gunpei Yokoi, and his R&D1 team.
- Rating 5/10
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- Actually, I don't know all that much about this thing. (since I
didn't own one), other than it sucks. hehehe
- I know it was basically just a normal controller, except that
you put it on your hand, and in my opinion its pretty useless.
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- From what I have heard and read, I think I should give
this thing a pretty poor rating.
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- Rating 3/10
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- When it was "discovered" that sitting and playing videogames day in and day out
wasn't so healthy for you, Nintendo decided to market this odd NES accessory under
the slogan, "get in shape while you play a Nintendo game!". The FFF is a big
carpet-like mat with 8 big buttons, which you use to control the game (like a gigantic
controller!). It was released with the 5-games-in-one cart Athletic World and I think
that this was the only game ever to be released for the FFF. I haven't
had the
opportunity to try it for myself but it must have been pretty cool.
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- My favorite game for this accessory
was the Track & Field game. It was like the Olympics! You
got to jump hurdles, run 100 meter races, try the double or
triple jump. It was fun!
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- Rating 7/10
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Web Page Design and Some of the Graphics Made By
Loopez |
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