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Saturday, September 20, 2014

20/20 report on Nintendo

I know I have posted lots of videos, but I keep digging YouTube and find more and more gold. So, here's another one.

Nintendo of America training video

This is how staff training was done in the good ol' days. Watch and ...cry.

Nintendo ...Cereal System? What?



If you establish a name brand, you can sell anything. An excellent example is the Nintendo Cereal System, «released» in 1988. It' s nothing more that breakfast cereal shaped like Super Mario and Zelda characters.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Review #16: Snake Rattle n' Roll: Bring a friend along and enjoy!

The game box

Rare is one of the best companies that developed back in the day for the NES. This game is one of their masterpieces in every level. Extremely fun to play with, especially in the 2 player co-op mode, very very nice graphics and awesome music.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Gamespot's 20th NES birthday documentary


DIY: Replacing the 72 pin connector inside the NES

The reason of all faulty NES systems. The 72 pin connector
So your Nintendo doesn't behave that good lately. It blinks, it boots for a while and then freezes, the graphics are full of pixels that don't belong there and many more... You've blown the carts, you've cleaned them, you have moved the cartridges left and right in the system, you even put a spoon in it so it doesn't lift all the way up for the NES to read it.