Top 5 NES Facts... With Power!
No wonder they called their magazine Nintendo Power-- the NES was one powerful little machine! With the Nintendo Switch recently unveiled, we decided to journey back through the Nintendo console generations, past the Nintendo DS, the N64, the Game Cube, the Super Nintendo and all the others... All the way back to the Nintendo NES. Like if you had a Power Glove! (It was so bad.)
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Top 5 NES Facts
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Time to plug in the second controller so our gullible younger siblings can feel like they’re playing with us. Welcome to WatchMojo’s Top Five Facts, the series where we dust off our issues of Nintendo Power to discuss a fascinating topic, and this time, we’re playing with power! Or facting with power? We’re talking about the NES.
#5: Nintendo bought out their Rule 34 Material
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Nintendo is known for being a family friendly company, but this wasn’t always the case. Back in the 60s, Nintendo actually had a Love Hotel where you could rent rooms by the hour and play video games. Suuuuure Nintendo, that’s definitely all that happened. This idea ultimately failed, but that didn’t mean the company was done dealing with things between the sheets. Enter bootlegs like “Super Maruo” -- and no, that’s not just me mispronouncing his name-- which rewarded players with something more than a cake. Then there’s adult parodies like the “Super Hornio Brothers” series, which Nintendo actually purchased from famed porn actor, Ron Jeremy to make sure it never saw the light of day. Unfortunately for them, we have the Internet
#4: There was going to be a Sewing Machine Add-on
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If you thought Nintendo’s balance board was an odd peripheral , then you clearly didn’t live in the age of the Power Glove. Nintendo is the reigning champion of odd accessories for their consoles, but today’s accessories are nothing compared to the NES days. Back then, Nintendo would try anything, and we mean anything, like this... sewing peripheral? That’s right, once upon a time, Nintendo had plans to make a sewing peripheral that interacted with the NES to sew different Nintendo-themed patterns. Sporting the catchphrase, “Now you’re KNITTING with power,” and there even was a game released in Japan where you could design your own sweaters with Mario Designs. The cosplayer in us is a little bummed out that this didn’t happen... until 2001 when the Singer Izek Sewing Machine came along...
#3: Press the Square Buttons
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No we're not talking about the Playstation controller, This one is all about the NES's Japanese counterpart, The Famicom. Released two years prior to our gray little box, this white and red console was the beginning of what would be a revolution in gaming with its square buttons and... wait, square buttons? Apparently, the first wave of Famicoms had square buttons on their controllers instead of the round ones we’ve come to know. Why the switch? Well... it’s because those square buttons would stick or pop off. Fortunately, this was fixed in plenty of time for our NES launch, unfortunately, not everyone got the memo that the U.S. controllers didn’t have built-in microphones like the Japanese ones. Thanks “Legend of Zelda” instruction booklet...
#2: The NES Had a Good, Long Life
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Nintendo never says die... or is that Goonies? Either way, Nintendo has a bit of a reputation for stretching the lifespans of their consoles. The NES’s final game -- Wario’s Woods -- was released on December 10th, 1994, one week AFTER the launch of the Sony Playstation and not too long before the release of the Nintendo 64. Even if Nintendo stopped releasing games, their powerline was still up and running until, get this, 2010! But the most impressive fact of all: people are still making NES games -- unofficially, of course. And these are good, well-developed titles like 2010’s “Battle Kid and the Fortress of Peril.” As of writing this, the last NES game was 2015’s “8-Bit XMas.”
#1: It Caused The Resurrection Of Video Gaming
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That may sound like an over-exaggeration... until you realize how big of an impact the Atari crash had on the gaming industry. There’s a reason why the NES looks more like a VCR than a gaming console: retailers and corporate buyers were so skeptical about the gaming industry that Nintendo advertised it as anything BUT a gaming device. After an extremely limited launch -- we’re talkin’ a few stores in New York and L.A. -- word started to spread, and the NES gained momentum. But Nintendo, still being overly cautious, implemented a strict licensing policy to try and quality control ALL NES games -- not just their own. This, understandably, led to a lot of pissed off third party developers. Nintendo did eventually loosen their iron grip, but you have to admit, after releases like this... you can kinda see where they were coming from. Welp, it’s Game Over for now, Mojoholics. What NES facts make you want to blow the dust out of one of those cartridges? For more powered-up top tens and bit-tastic facts, be sure to subscribe to WatchMojo.com.
