Nintendo NES

Pros: Tons of classic games, legends were born, brought video games back from the dead
Cons: Very few good sports games. Besides that, bah!

Before the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was released in 1985, video games were dead. Extinct. Over. You get the picture. Due to some bad decisions by the market dictator at the time, Atari, gaming became one of those fads that were cool for a...

Pros: The herald of the Silver Age of gaming, huge selection of games, still plundered for remakes today
Cons: Censorship issues, often had flickering and slow down

To fans of video games in general, 1984 was a very dark time. Anyone familiar with video games knows that as the market crash, when more games for systems (mostly the Atari 2600) existed than systems themselves, and the market fell out from under them....

Pros: LOTS of good games to play
Cons: Games/equipment hard to find

In 1985, Nintendo brought the electronic game industry into the next era with the introduction of the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES. Introduced in Japan as the Famicon unit, the system instantly transformed the game system industry by giving...

Pros: Lots of games, innovative controller design
Cons: Sometimes required cleaning to work

For those of us born in the 70's, we grew up playing video games - mostly the Atari 2600. It was a regular thing in my elementary school days to have sleepovers where all we did was stay up and play Atari. In the mid-1980's, it became time for us video...

Pros: Better graphics than it's predecessors, Game ending sequences
Cons: Bad controller, durability, and cost (at that time).

I remember when Nintendo first arrived in our wonderful country. I was already an Atari addict and resisted change to a new system as long as I could. As Atari games were phased out and Nintendo added more and more interesting titles I was forced to...

Pros: The genesis of all modern consoles and game types.
Cons: Is not nearly as good today, for various reasons.

I realize in my previous review I made the NES out to be the greatest thing ever....Mainly because I did not have an NES game at the time, so I had forgotten why I sold it in the first place. I recently borrowed an NES from my friend, and my memory was...

Pros: Huge selection of games; cheap to buy now; FUN FUN FUN!!
Cons: Original console not very durable.

When it comes to video games, one console should stand the test of time of being the absolute best platform ever made. And no, I'm not talking about PS2 or X-Box, I'm talking about the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The NES took the ...

Pros: The best system ever, awesome games, plenty of games of ALL genre, Just Fun fun fun
Cons: Eight bit graphics nothing like today, not much to offer in the sports category, or the fighting category

The original NES Nintendo Entertainment System was released just fifteen years ago. I can remember the exact day it came out. Well not really but I am sure there are a lot of people out there who can. When I bought this system perhaps around 1986,...

Pros: Greatest System Ever MADE
Cons: Maybe Hard to Come by

You know the video game consoles are in the heat of battle now with Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation2 soon on the horizon, and XBox and Gamecube both looming soon thereafter on the horizion, with some of the hottest looking games and trendsetting video...

Pros: Classic games, Easy to use, Affordable.
Cons: Sometimes it blinks and flashes and won't load games properly.

Those of you who are fellow Nintendo addicts like me, will sympathize with a condition I call "Nintendo Thumb." Nintendo Thumb can be categorized as a condition caused from endless hours of game playing, where your thumb is swelling and experiencing...

Pros: cheap, nostalgic, wide variety of games, good for kids
Cons: they no longer make games for it :-(

I was nine years old in 1989 when I sat next to the Christmas tree with the huge box in my hands. My mother watched, smiling, as I began to tear the paper off the package. I already knew what it was by the shape, but the first sight of that familiar...

Pros: Tons of quality games
Cons: Graphics are a bit outdated

Back in 1985 a company named Nintendo released the Nintendo Entertainment System or SNS. Nintendo was able to beat out Atari and went on to making some great titles and creating a gaming dynasty (at least till the Sega Genesis came out).

I...

Pros: essential!
Cons: I don't have one... POUT!

Many decent gaming systems came out before and after NES (the 8 bit version, kid, don't give me any of that "super" Nintendo attitude!) such as Atari, Intellivision, Sega Genesis, and even N64 had its moments. But none have been able to...

Pros: All the intangibles, and the incredible gameplay
Cons: The thing dies on you, but luckily we have emulators!!!

Wow, who would have ever thought that we would see the classic 8-bit Nintendo on Epinions. I mean really, is there anyone who is actually thinking, "hmmm, now what do I buy? Should I go with this brand new Dreamcast, with its 3-d realism, or...

Pros: an everlasting phenomenon
Cons: sometimes games would just flash and flash when you turned them on and you'd have to try for like five minutes to get it to show up right without scrambling

First, does this category ("Classic Consoles") exist solely to allow Epinions members to express nostalgia for outdated electronics? I'm not complaining; I enjoy partaking in such self-indulgence. I tend to remember the good things more than...