We just called it Nintendo at the time, because there was only one. Those Alf pajamas kill me!
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Christmas Morning, Circa 1986: Nintendo Entertainment System
Published December 9, 2015 '80s Movies/TV , Christmas , Christmas Morning , Home Consoles , Nintendo , Video Games 3 CommentsTarget and Toys R Us Nintendo Ads, 1986/1988
Published December 13, 2013 Ads , Christmas , Home Consoles , Nintendo , Toy Stores/Toy Aisles/Toy Departments , Video Games 1 Comment
I can’t remember if I got my NES for Christmas ’86, or Christmas ’87. Either way, it was the most my parents ever spent on a single gift. I got a Schwinn Scrambler (red mags—it was beautiful) one Christmas, but I’d been putting payments on the thing for months. I’d sold my old bike to a kid in the neighborhood and used the money as a down—I think it was 20 bucks. My parents sneakily paid the balance, and there it was propped up by the tree in the morning.
Anyway, Atari it isn’t, but the NES is a great system. I put it third behind the 2600 and Intellivision. Favorite games: Tecmo Super Bowl and Xenophobe. Friend J. and I, and his brother, logged many, many hours on the former. And I have a very strong memory of renting Xenophobe from Blockbuster, getting pizza from the neighborhood joint next door, and playing three-player mode throughout the night.
The fact that the NES went up in price between 1986 and 1988 shows how dominant it was at the time. The next system I got—and the first one I bought for myself—was a Sega Genesis in the early ’90s, when Sonic the Hedgehog was bundled with it.
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Donkey Kong Jr. Game & Watch (1982)
Published October 12, 2012 Electronic Handhelds , Nintendo , Rich Kids Suck , Video Games 3 Comments
I envied the kids who had these.
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