Gear, Technology Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES )
Remember When ?
Though released in 1985, it was actually 1986 when a little plumber named Mario burst onto the scene and forever changed the landscape of culture.
Atari had set the stage with its revolutionary (if not archaic) block style gaming. Then the Nintendo NES happened. Armed with a basic controller and a zapper light gun, the NES had what its contemporaries did not-a robot that worked on a then space- age command system. With a complimentary Mario/Duck Hunt game thrown in, family dinners soon became as extinct as outdoors play. Kids across America were addicted to conquering levels of such now- basic titles as Excitebike, Kung Fu, and Hogan’s Alley.
Nintendo NES is a dinosaur these days, with inter-coastal trash talk and uncannily real graphics rampant amongst the feverish gaming community. But in 1986, when an interrupted game meant not that an internet connection was broken, but that a cartridge simply needed to be blown into … Mario jumped his way into our hearts.
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NES, My life seemed better then. Hours of near mindless fun.