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Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment system (NES) was hugely popular, its sucess must be largley due to the huge number of quality games that were released on the system. The first games in the Zelda series were released along with classic arcade conversions such as Gauntlet and double dragon. Not to mention the ever popular Mario 1, 2 and 3.
Famicom
 Japan 1983
Released in several different designs this is one of the newer ones. Also released as a top loader version in Japan and some counties such as Australia. There are also a lot of pirate versions around.
NES
 USA 1986
NES
Uses larger carts than the Japanese version. Suffers badly from dust and a design fault which means its difficult to get older systems to work.
Pirate version
 1984 - Present
There are loads of pirate versions of the NES about this is just 1 of them. Pirate systems are still being made with versions such as the Mega Joy which has games built in.
Famicom Disk
1986
Famicom Disk System :The system was a disk drive for the Famicom attached through the cartridge port. Sold over 4 million in japan but never released in Europe due to the easy with which software was pirated.
SPECS
CPU 6508 (using a custom Motorola 6502 class), 1.79 Mhz
MEMORY Maim RAM: 2 KB
Video RAM: 2 KB
GRAPHICS Display: 256x240
Colors: 52
Colors on Screen: 16
Max Sprites: 64
Max Sprites / Line: 8
Sprite Size: 8x8 or 8x16
Picture Scroll Horizontal / Vertical
ACCESSORIES
Mattel designed the Power Glove for the NES
NES licensee, designed the package. It includes a mat with eight control buttons on it and the Athletic World game cartridge.
Shop unit which switched between a selection of games.
R.O.B. ROB is a gray plastic robot that is one foot high. When the television screen is turned on, a chip is powered in its head causing it to move. ROB's actions (like picking up a stack of chips) activate movement on-screen.
Satellite NES Satellite. This peripheral enabled four players to play a single game at the same time. Four joypads can be plugged in to this unit.
 
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8-2-2002
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Tips on getting your NES system to work again