I don't think I ever mentioned it, but believe it or not I actually had my 1985 launch system working in fine order up until the day I let it go. It was back on the 25th birthday year of the system I had been mass selling off the useless 300+ NES games I didn't want to store anymore, and this local came over with his son wanting a stack of cheap games I had because he remembered them as a kid and wanted to play them with his kid. I had the NES down on the main tv (was a 2 story condo) and I let them try all the games out for a little and the guy got to mentioning he was game and system shopping but wanted the games and paid. As they were leaving he started begging me to sell the system to him, I wasn't going to originally as he asked inside too. I saw how much the kid got into it and I had a top loader and NES TV upstairs so I let it go at his chosen price. The kid like flipped because he could go home with it, zapper, 2 controllers. I'm sure they had a lot of fun that day and the ones after. I still at times kind of wish I kept it, but I hadn't thought about it up until about a week ago when I bought my first system lot in 5 years (an NES) and now it's on my floor behind me and it reminded me of it.