The NES Story Began On This Day 31 Years Ago

Is the Famicom older than you, or are you withered enough to recall when it appeared on the scene and changed the industry forever?

Yes and yes.

I'm 35, and remember getting the PAL version in the mid-late 80's (memories a little fuzzy to remember exactly!). I've still got that system plugged into an old c.r.t tv ready to play. I still remember the day I went to Dixons (kids, ask your Dad what that shop is) and buying the system with Super Mario Bros (off course) and the zapper and duck hunt. One of the best memories I have of purchasing a new system.

Before my time. I was introduced to gaming in a time when NES was still very popular and the SNES was just breaking into the scene. The N64 was the first system I was actually old enough to ride the hype train from announcement to release though.

Apparently the Sega Genesis and I have birthdays about 6 weeks apart though. Late 1988 for the both of us.

I invite you to (re)discover my 30th anniversay Famicom musical tribute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PL6fZsKlc

I was born around the time the Super Famicom was hitting the Japanese shelves. So, it's older than me, but I played a lot of NES on my childhood, it was my first contact with gaming.

I am 32 this year and had an Australian NES when I was a kid (it was actually my very first home console).
I still remember watching the movie "The Wizard" starring Fred Savage and finding out where the flute (warp zone flute) was hidden in SMB3.
My cousins [who are around the same age] also had an NES as well. We would always either play NES games together (since they lived close to us) or borrow them from each other. One of my cousins actually got the Battletoads game for his birthday one year (what a difficult game that was)!
Also the game cartridge would never stay in the system by itself. We used to have to hold the game down inside it with a battery. The same thing happened to my cousin's system as well. We also used to blow into the game cartridge if the game wasn't working.

I'm 36. I was around 7 when I got my NES and I still have it.

@Yorumi Nice. Grew up with the NES, as well. SMB3 was the first game I ever played. Turning 30 on the same month.

I had a Colecovision when I was 6 and fell in love with Nintendo because of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr.
Then it was all about Nintendo.
Thank you Colecovision.
That I still have.

The NES was my first console and I´m older...
I will never forget Xmas 1988 when my father bought the Mario Bros./Duck hunt bundle, I was 9 at the time. That NES is still going strong BTW and believe me I played it a lot more than any other console I owned afterwards

Yep. Remember getting a NES with Super Mario & Duck Hunt. It was a huge step above the Atari 2600 we had. Have had every Nintendo system since.

Even though the famicom is 13 years older than me, the nes was the first home system i played. Because my dad (not a huge gamer) had a NES and nothing else in 2000 haha

Awwww my Famicom is older than me by 30 days.

Thanks for reminding me that.... I'M OOOLD!

I've just turned 30 on Saturday so the NES is just about one year older than me. The NES possibly is older than most diehard Sony and Microsoft fans.

so today the famicom, the second greatest console(after the almighty sega genesis) was made today? if so than Happy birthday famicom!!!

No, but I remember it becoming popular. My family owned an Intellivision and Odyssey II prior to it's release, and a C-64 and/or IBM PC during it's life.

http://www.justpushstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Super-Mario-Bros.-3.jpg

This alone made it better than every console since. Except maybe the SNES.

My dad had an NES, but as I'm only 19 now, I don't remember it. I did play the SNES a lot, however. I still enjoy NES games on the VC though!

I had a Famicom, my first console, joyfully bought to put an end to loading games from tapes to my ZX Spectrum. Unfortunately they hit South Africa a bit late, and it was only 2 and a bit years til I bought a Mega Drive.

I've never taken the time to really study a picture of the Famicon before - it is gorgeous!
If I ever make it to Japan on hols will def pick one up, its a wee work of art.

I still have my NES, and it still works just fine. Who expects a xbox360 or ps3 to still work 15 years from now, much less 30? Nintendo stuff is built to last!

The first console I ever followed the release for was the DSi... yep. I never bought it of course! and I'd had a PS1, a Wii, a Gamecube, a Gameboy and a couple DSs by that point.

Though I never did own an NES myself, as a kid I would oftentimes go over to my grandmother's house and play hers. She even had both Super Mario Bros/Duckhunt and Super Mario Bros 3! Have much respect for the system that played a pivotal role in how we are gaming today!

@vamkar i doubt COD fanboys will ever respect the NES. or SEGA Genesis. or Playstation 1. or anything made before the xbox

@SavoirFaire made to last for the most part. i have 4 NES consoles, 2 work now and then, 1 works really well, and 1 spits the cartridge back up when you try to push the cartridge down

alot of people have stated they played alot of ZX spectrum before the NES. why was the ZX spectrum so popular in europe?

I only came just before the Gamecube...sigh...

I was born in 1980, I'll be 34 in September.
I was about 6 or 7 when my parents brought it home, the day after my dad came home from the hospital with shattered legs...

I remember hooking it up with the old RF switch! And while I wasn't the first to play it, I was the best at mario, I remember everyone in my family was going "nuts" at how good I was, yelling for me to jump, duck hide and to look out. I got all the way to the first Cheep Cheep stage before I died the first time. Everyone else died on level 1-1.

@JosieC84
Happy Birthday.

@Frapp i've seen some screenshots and videos of ZX spectrum games, and it loks like the 1980s european were able to overlook the crude(by late 80s early 90s)graphics and mediocre sound(keep in mind im NOT a graphics whore like a lot of other gamers are) but i guess its the GAMEPLAY theat matters...right?

I'm 45 and got an NES my first year of college during my freshman year living in the dorms. Fave memory: on the day I got the first Zelda, there was a huge party on our dorm floor (kegs, pot, etc.). I played Zelda until 6am and everyone had literally passed out around me (wasted or just tired). Eventually I earned the nickname "Meltendo" since the younger brothers and sisters of my college buddies would literally call me for video gaming tips (there was no internet like today in 1987)

@eviLaTtenDant I'm pretty sure that isn't physically possible, man.

@SageWaterDragon The proud "born in 1984" me somehow read a "were you given birth after 1983 but yet have owned the console before the Super Nintendo appeared" between the lines.
And still i wasn't in the mood to talk about my experience with the console at that time.
_{In hindsight i shouldn't have posted anything at all, i agree.}

@Frapp is rare(the people behind donkey kong country) a british company?
ive only ever played oone ZX spectrum game. a little known game called"jetpac" not sure if youve heard of it

Cool, the NES is 10 days older than me!

@Frapp what kind of name is'' ultimate play the game''

I was eleven years old and it was Christmas 1988. We got our first ever computer/console, the NES. On Christmas day we played SMB and Golf and on Boxing Day I played Metroid, for hours. So much so that I was playing it in my dreams and I couldn't get it out of my head.

Twenty six years later and I'm still playing games, although I've had my peaks and troughs at different points in my life.

For me though the golden era was the 16bit and the Super Nintendo the greatest games machine ever created, but the NES is still a fantastic machine.

@Frapp makes sense. did they make anyother games besides jetpac?

@Frapp some of them look pretty fun

Older than me...barely.