R.O.B., we hardly knew ye...

Howard Phillips has been raiding his collection of Nintendo-related memorabilia again, this time coming up with an awesome NES brochure from the 1986 CES.

The promotional material focuses heavily on R.O.B. the Robot, Nintendo's ill-fated attempt to give the fledgling NES a little something that would differentiate it from the previous crop of home consoles in the US, namely the Atari 2600 - the system which caused the catastrophic video game crash of the early '80s.

Check out the full brochure below, and be sure to click the images to appreciate larger versions.

I for one welcome our new robotic overlords
R.O.B. and the Zapper, reporting for duty
The leaflet was aimed squarely at retailers
Education series?

[source facebook.com]