Video - Classic news story on Nintendo and SMB back when Mario & NES weren't known

[Raedon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGFRi_ueq-M

It's an old Inside Edition story. Brings the 80's back.

[Famidrive-16]

We'll Do It Live

Fucking Thing Sucks

[Sabz5150]

"By the end of this year they hope to have their system in one out of eight American homes."

Needless to say, they hit that mark.

[smork]

Bill O'Reilly, back before he got respectable (hah!)

[namzep]

Anyone else start drooling when they saw all the sealed NES carts, controllers, and systems?

[aclbandit]

Anyone else start drooling when they saw all the sealed NES carts, controllers, and systems?

Oh, I most DEFINITELY did. I mean, WOW. I wish that I had had the mental capacity at age 2 to go pick up a load of NES games and NOT open them EVER.

[darkhades]

I've actually had this video on my favorite list for a long time now. I watch it now and again to remember the good old days.

[skaar]

Anyone else start drooling when they saw all the sealed NES carts, controllers, and systems?

What's sad is the 80s would be my first stop if I got a time machine. And part of me was going "But they were still $60 each!"

Go go Howard Phillips. I lost part of my innocence when I heard some of the dirty jokes that guy knew. Nice guy tho.

[Raedon]

I like the quote, "With 80 games released for the Nintendo..." it went to over 600.

[Nescollector]

Wow, that was an amazing store, or was it some kind of nintendo display area. Never had a store like that in my area.

[ooXxXoo]

Hey,.... notice how the Nintendo "game-play" counsellors had their NES systems plugged via the A/V composite/Audio outputs (American Tv's sets latest technology then) in the control command center....While the rest of us, where using the RF switch modulator at home.....