What Color Does Your NES Taunt You With?

[Daria]

I have never had a faulty Nintendo product

Really? You're lucky, since pretty much every NES unit ever made has developed the "blinky" problem ...

Flack's post got me thinking- well not quite true I've wondered about it before but his post reminded me to actually make the topic. There's another user here whoes avie is an NES infront of a green blinking screen and I had a discussion with someone over vbender once and they didn't understand why I thought my copy of Princess tomato was busted because the opening screen is pure blue.

So basically... what color does your NES blink?

Nearly every NES I've owned has blinked a cerulean blue but I've occasionally seen pink and light grey.

[Bratwurst]

I have a deck that flashes yellow and a deck that flashes gray.

[imanerd0011]

Well... if you install a new 72 pin in your NES, it won't give you any colors anymore. But you can keep it the way it is, if you enjoy the light show that you get everytime you turn on your NES.

[SkiDragon]

Mine does different colors, Im pretty sure. I think it even blinks one color, then another.

[Daria]

Well... if you install a new 72 pin in your NES, it won't give you any colors anymore. But you can keep it the way it is, if you enjoy the light show that you get everytime you turn on your NES.

It just wouldn't be nostalgia without it. :P

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

My NES is frequently on blue alert.

[Sibs]

One flashes orange, yellow, and purple and the other one is blue.

[Nesmaster]

mine doesnt hardly, but on the occasion it does, its grey. i have had many other colors but grey is most common

[MegaDrive20XX]

Grey or Green is what I normally get with the NES systems I have had

[Jibbajaba]

Green here. And new 72 pin connectors suck.

Chris

[Richter Belmount]

grey or plain black , ggrrrr

[Funkenstein]

The one I had as a kid and both ones I've owned recently mocked me with alternating a lovely forest green and black, plus flashing the light on and off.

[EricRyan34]

PURPLE


The only color ever that blinks on my NES

[Emily]

Ive seen purple ,blue, green, & grey on one NES.

[max 330 mega]

My NES is a rainbow... the wierdest colors mine has ever shown are a hurl lime green and bright pink... lol

[sirgeoph]

oh, to be the owner of a top loader...

but my front-loader doesn't blink either...

but, as far as I know, it blinks different colors based on which pin isn't making contact... sort of like an error code for the nintendo techs.. so if yours blinks a lot of different colors, it could be the game... if it always blinks one color, its probably your 72-pin connector.

[cracked8ball]

Mine switches between forest green and gray

[NESaholic]

In the past years i've seen, pink,white,grey,dark grey,black.

[whoisKeel]

mine never blinks anymore, but i think it blinked grey.

you should 'refurbish' your pin connector over getting a new one...my new one started crapping out after a few months, then i cleaned out my old pin and put it back in and mine never blinks. check the restoration forums for info. and clean your games.

[Ed Oscuro]

My NES is frequently on blue alert.

Did somebody say Big Blue?