30 years of Nintendo NES

    On October 18, 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System game console appeared on sale in the United States. In Japan, she appeared even earlier - in 1983 under the name Famicom. But in Russia, she became known in December 1992 under the Dendy brand - it was an unofficial hardware clone of the third-generation set-top box, in which we played our favorite Super Mario, Contra and "tanks".

    NES was thirty years old on October 18, 2015.



    The Nintendo Entertainment System is the third-generation gaming console developed by Nintendo during its management of Hiroshi Yamauchi . More than sixty million consoles and more than five hundred million games have officially been sold, but that's not counting the many clones. The prefix was on sale from 1983 to 2003.

    Games for the console were supplied on cartridges, which can be done independently.

    In 1986, Nintendo NES owned 90% of the game console market, while Sega Master System and Atari accounted for the remaining 10%.



    NES became the first game console with motion control . To do this, use the Power Glove. A special receiver was installed on the TV, and the glove was connected to the console. The receivers made a sound, it was reflected from the glove, and then, using the triangulation method, the system calculated the position of the “joystick” in space. The system perceived the movement of the fingers - it was possible to shoot by bending the finger, as if you were pulling the trigger.



    Famicom / NES clones were launched in the late eighties by the Taiwanese company TXC Corporation. For ninety-four dollars, or 39,000 rubles, in Russia at the end of 1992, you could buy a Dandy.

    In 1994, a Russian television show on computer games for game consoles "Dandy - New Reality" by Sergey Suponev was released on Russian television. Those children who did not have “Dandy”, “Segi”, or other consoles, learned about the games from this program.



    Russian advertising Dendy:


    Games for Dendy in Russia could be played on the prefix "Sbor". Her case was made in the form of a standard keyboard for a computer with a port for a cartridge. I learned to print on it - in the kit was a cartridge with training programs.


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