Obscure, rare Nintendo systems - Retro Forum

JGMR · 2011-06-21T03:46:27+00:00

Like... SF-1 SNES TV The SF-1 SNES TV (スーパーファミコンテレビSF1?) (also known as the Sharp Science Fiction-1) is a television produced by Sharp Corporation with a built-in licensed Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Released only to Japanese markets, the unit retailed in 1990 as a next generation sequel to the 1983 C1 NES TV also manufactured by Sharp and licensed by Nintendo. Like the C1, the SF-1 was noted as having superior picture quality to the SNES. Wiki entry C1 NES TV The C1 NES TV (ファミコンテレビC1?) (also known as the My C1 Computer TV (マイコンピュータテレビC1?)) is a television produced by Sharp Corporation with a built-in licensed Nintendo Entertainment System. Originally released in Japan, the unit was released in the US in 1989 as the Sharp Nintendo Television. The C1 NES TV is notable for having provided the high-quality screenshots displayed in video game magazines of the period, due to its having slightly better picture quality than the NES. Wiki entry NESWiki entry Nintendo M82 game play system Used to demo games in stores, it features a time play limiter and auto reset. Designed to allow people to play a game and decide if they want to buy it. Rack mounted with a Nintendo monitor and found in toy stores. Think a NES neo geo! An 11 slot at that. Great stuff. An excellent unit. Extremely rare and hard to get. The Nintendo M82 is a demonstration unit for the Nintendo Entertainment System to allow customers to try games in-store before purchasing them. The full title on the machine was the M82 Game Selectable Working Product Display. The machine was fundamentally different from the more arcade orientated PlayChoice, because it used consumer NES carts instead of proprietary ROM chips. The M82 could hold up to 12 games, which were visible (on end) through small windows and were numbered 1 - 12. Unlike the Japanese Famicom Box, a similar demo unit that demanded specially-made cartridges, the M82 accepted any standard NTSC game cartridge. The games were selected by pressing a red button on the front of the unit. Up to two controllers and one NES Zapper could be connected and were held on small shelves on the lower front of the unit. The play time could be set by the store via a knob on the back of the unit; this could be 30 seconds, 3 minutes, 6 minutes, 128 minutes or unlimited. Nintendo also developed other in-store demonstration units, however the M82 seems to be the common variety of these Nintendo systems. Assembler Archive Wiki entry :p

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Sun 4th Sep 2011

KingMike wrote:

I believe Nintendo actually said they were releasing old tech, and (I hear) even then requiring users to use the memory card it shipped with, because they don't trust the Chinese to not pirate it.

That would be 100% correct on that. Nintendo did not trust the Chinese due to the massive ring of piracy of their stuff to their beginnings in the cartridge market(Famicom) out of that country and their territories. By having an N64 on a chip setup with downloads being only possible, the best a thief could do I suppose would not be economically sound. You'd have to either hack the hardware to take a SD card or something with ROMS stolen online and patched to run, or jacked from a kiosk and uploaded online. Either way not likely, and with the nazi like grip the Chinese net censors have on stuff most probably wouldn't want to risk that in their business either.

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