I got a NES!!

[Deleted User] · 21/12/10 - 20:21

My 15 year old son asked for a NES for Christmas! It arrived today and I had a go while he was out - just to make sure it was working

I forgot how annoying the music was, and how blocky the games are lol. I hope he enjoys it as much as I did back in the 80's.

OneManTagTeam · 21/12/10 - 20:35

What games did you get with it?

[Deleted User] · 21/12/10 - 20:49

18 games

Donkey Kong
Teenage mutant turtles
Excitebike
Turrican
Kung Fu
Wrestlemania
Kick off
Batman return of the joker
Turbo racing
Mission impossible
Dream master
Alien 3
Pro wrestling
Captain skyhawk
Chip n Dale
Shadow warriors
Super Mario Bros/Duckhunt
Mario 3

The Terminator · 21/12/10 - 21:09

bafty crastard wrote: »

My 15 year old son asked for a NES for Christmas!

...why?

[Deleted User] · 21/12/10 - 21:17

I've no idea

He has an xbox360, wii, DS etc. Maybe he fancied retro gaming lol.
I remember back in the day of SNES, mega drives etc my young cousin started playing the pong/tennis game we still had and loved it. He played it more than his mega drive!

[Deleted User] · 21/12/10 - 21:18

There must be demand for them though - the prices some go for on ebay is crazy :eek:

frailfury · 21/12/10 - 22:00

How much you pay for it?
I'd get a SNES but not sure how you'd plug it into a HDTV so I use emulation :-)

[Deleted User] · 21/12/10 - 22:35

TRY THIS:-
(SNES9X), you can get it AND ganes for it from WWW.COOLROMS.COM) and they WILL work with an Xbox 360 controller.

[Deleted User] · 21/12/10 - 23:59

bafty crastard wrote: »

My 15 year old son asked for a NES for Christmas! It arrived today and I had a go while he was out - just to make sure it was working
I forgot how annoying the music was, and how blocky the games are lol. I hope he enjoys it as much as I did back in the 80's.

Are you sure its for your son, and not you?

-GONZO- · 22/12/10 - 08:42

bafty crastard wrote: »

There must be demand for them though - the prices some go for on ebay is crazy :eek:

Thats right, even Ricky got his kids a NES and games for Xmas in Eastenders:D

scooby1970 · 22/12/10 - 09:45

Lovely little machine, though at the time I was a CPC/Speccy/C64 and Master System user. Glad to see youngsters getting into retro-gaming and not just us old farts.

Mark

eugenespeed · 22/12/10 - 10:14

frailfury wrote: »

How much you pay for it?
I'd get a SNES but not sure how you'd plug it into a HDTV so I use emulation :-)

Do you still have a VCR?

If so, plug SNES into it, then SCART (or whatever) it to your TV.

Done

grilli · 22/12/10 - 10:48

if he's got a wii why not get a load of wii points and download games on there?

Hotbird · 22/12/10 - 12:12

frailfury wrote: »

How much you pay for it?
I'd get a SNES but not sure how you'd plug it into a HDTV so I use emulation :-)

N64 and Gamecube video cables work fine on a SNES.

SuperAPJ · 23/12/10 - 01:53

bafty crastard wrote: »

Teenage mutant turtles

Good luck with that one, i remember it being very difficult!

grilli wrote: »

if he's got a wii why not get a load of wii points and download games on there?

It just wouldn't be as nostalgic waving a Wiimote around rather than using the old NES controller! The NES one wasn't the most comfortable though.

-GONZO- · 23/12/10 - 09:01

SuperAPJ wrote: »

It just wouldn't be as nostalgic waving a Wiimote around rather than using the old NES controller! The NES one wasn't the most comfortable though.

This is a prime example of someone who's not played Wii (or at least not VC)and doesn't know what they're talking about.
There is no waving the Wiimote around with NES games as you just hold the Wiimote the same as you would the original NES controller as the button layout is pretty much the same.

[Deleted User] · 23/12/10 - 09:33

Awe.... I'd love a SNES.....

*has a wee look on ebay*

[Deleted User] · 23/12/10 - 12:07

Just dug mine out set it all up and it doesn't work absolutely gutted.

[Deleted User] · 23/12/10 - 12:35

bob, does the red light come on?

[Deleted User] · 23/12/10 - 17:28

Yeah but there's no response on the T.V I'm using the original cable that comes with the console.

[Deleted User] · 23/12/10 - 17:54

When you say no response does the screen flicker when you press the reset button on the NES, If it does just keep pressing the reset button and wait a few seconds, if nothing appears on screen press reset again. It might take many attempts but as long as you have a red light it should work eventually as long as theirs a cartridge inserted.

-GONZO- · 23/12/10 - 17:55

bob2005 wrote: »

Yeah but there's no response on the T.V I'm using the original cable that comes with the console.

Have you scanned through every analogue UHF channel?
I can't remember exactly, but weren't most consoles on UHF 36 so you could use that as a starting point and fine tune.

[Deleted User] · 23/12/10 - 21:16

Finally started working I just kept pressing restart on the console and it finally came on. Never happened to the NES before very weird thanks for the help.

[Deleted User] · 24/12/10 - 01:27

Emulation has worked well for me on my PC. Ever since my ZX Spectrum, and Spectrum +3 (both of which I now regret binning, literally, as I thought them worthless) when I was able to emulate them on my PC in the late 90's and download all the software for them, to everything else since (SNES, GBA, PSX, N64, and of course MAME for emulation of countless arcade games, and more recently even PS2). Emulation is good, and very convenient (I wouldn't want to wait five minutes to load a Spectrum game from a tape image, except maybe once or twice for nostalgia, knowing the emulator loading it would be guaranteed not to have a tape loading error as it was all digital and would work every time).

I'm sure old consoles and games must turn up in second hand stores in the cheaper areas of most city and town centres, and maybe in porn-brokers and the like as well. Personally, I'd rather run an emulator on my PC as for anything up to at least a PSX or N64 or GBA, the emulation is flawless and it is more convenient than using a console (I assume anyone using a PC for these purposes would have a good PC game controller for it of course).

SuperAPJ · 24/12/10 - 01:54

-GONZO- wrote: »

This is a prime example of someone who's not played Wii (or at least not VC)and doesn't know what they're talking about.
There is no waving the Wiimote around with NES games.

Wii, yes. Virtual Console, no. I'd completely forgotten that the Wiimote has a D-pad and of course these old games couldn't work with the motion sensor!

mattyl149 · 26/12/10 - 18:13

PrinceGaz wrote: »

I'm sure old consoles and games must turn up in second hand stores in the cheaper areas of most city and town centres, and maybe in porn-brokers and the like as well. Personally, I'd rather run an emulator on my PC as for anything up to at least a PSX or N64 or GBA, the emulation is flawless and it is more convenient than using a console (I assume anyone using a PC for these purposes would have a good PC game controller for it of course).

I went to a porn broker and asked for a Virtual Boy. I've got to say I got the strangest look from the shopkeeper

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