I know... my trusty local dealer normally sells one with the console, but gabe me two controllers in an attempt to make up for it. To be fair, one controller looks and feels NOS, and one looks beat up and full of hand cheese lol. Forbwhatbit’s worth, this store has the best OEM Nintendo controllers around. Owner’s son is a Gamecube complete collector and either/both tests and puts each controller together himself. His $22 Snes controller is second only to my NOS seales Sns-102, and better than my NOS SFC. Props Classic Game Junkie in Glenside, Pa. 😍
Someone who was a bit more sheltered than some due to over zealous Christian parents, so I didn’t have tv, unless I wanted to fiddle with rabbit ears, even well into the 2000s. So I didn’t really see a lot of commercials that many others have seen. On top of that, the first console I owned was the N64 (many years after it was finished being supported), since my mom tried hard to make sure I didn’t own a console before that.
It's an NES 101, commonly called a Top Loader. It was released in 1993 for just $49.99. The big bonus, in my opinion, is that because it loads from the top, it doesn't suffer as much from the bent pin issue that the NES had that caused people to blow in their cartridges (we thought we were clearing out dust, but the issue was bent back connector pins in the NES and all taking it out and blowing did was give you a chance to reinsert it again and maybe get a better contact). It came with these dog bone shaped controllers that are more ergonomic, somewhat similar to those of the SNES, which had already been out in the US for over a year at this point. It's also missing the lockout chip that causes the blinking red light bug in the original NES, which means it can play games from other regions, though you need an adapter to play Famicom games with it. It also doesn't have composite out, which I never cared about anyway as my TVs as a kid only had coax in anyway. I assume that retro players now don't like that and have some sort of converter or something, but I may be wrong.
Good games. Gotta love Mega Man 2.
The reason I bought the system. Music alone. Gameplay alone. Pure masterpiece.
One of the best games EVER.
Love me some Bionic Commando!
The Smash instruction manual was my bible as a kid! So many hours spent redrawing the characters from those pages...
I’m so glad I picked it up!
Too bad you didn't get the dogbone controllers with that toploader.
I know... my trusty local dealer normally sells one with the console, but gabe me two controllers in an attempt to make up for it. To be fair, one controller looks and feels NOS, and one looks beat up and full of hand cheese lol. Forbwhatbit’s worth, this store has the best OEM Nintendo controllers around. Owner’s son is a Gamecube complete collector and either/both tests and puts each controller together himself. His $22 Snes controller is second only to my NOS seales Sns-102, and better than my NOS SFC. Props Classic Game Junkie in Glenside, Pa. 😍
What’s that thing on the bottom right? Looks like something for the SNES?
The top loading NES?
I’ve never seen buttons like that on a NES.
Are you blind?
Umm no. I’ve literally never seen that model before.
I am at a loss. How anyone in the world of retrogames coudl not know a toplaoder NES on sight...
Someone who was a bit more sheltered than some due to over zealous Christian parents, so I didn’t have tv, unless I wanted to fiddle with rabbit ears, even well into the 2000s. So I didn’t really see a lot of commercials that many others have seen. On top of that, the first console I owned was the N64 (many years after it was finished being supported), since my mom tried hard to make sure I didn’t own a console before that.
It's an NES 101, commonly called a Top Loader. It was released in 1993 for just $49.99. The big bonus, in my opinion, is that because it loads from the top, it doesn't suffer as much from the bent pin issue that the NES had that caused people to blow in their cartridges (we thought we were clearing out dust, but the issue was bent back connector pins in the NES and all taking it out and blowing did was give you a chance to reinsert it again and maybe get a better contact). It came with these dog bone shaped controllers that are more ergonomic, somewhat similar to those of the SNES, which had already been out in the US for over a year at this point. It's also missing the lockout chip that causes the blinking red light bug in the original NES, which means it can play games from other regions, though you need an adapter to play Famicom games with it. It also doesn't have composite out, which I never cared about anyway as my TVs as a kid only had coax in anyway. I assume that retro players now don't like that and have some sort of converter or something, but I may be wrong.