Sunday, March 23, 2008

The classic Nintendo NES controller stash

Classic NES controllerLooking for some decently priced Nintendo NES controllers? Care to touch one of the most iconic video game accessories ever? Recently got an 8-bit multitap? Well, guess you'd probably hop over to Amazon.com and grab a NES Controller then. There are quite a few to chose from and shockingly some brand new ones too.
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8 comments:

  1. NebachadnezzaRMarch 24, 2008 at 1:27 PM

    Can you believe that I've never touched one of those? The only 8bit console I've played was the Master System, at a friend's house when I was a kid :)

    Now that I think of it, Nintendo was never much popular around here. Before becoming "Sony land" with the original Playstation, Portugal was definitely Sega land (and even today I believe that we have more Sega fans than Nintendo here).

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  2. gnomeMarch 24, 2008 at 2:13 PM

    I can easily believe you dear Nebacha, for as far as I know this was the case in most of Europe. A strong home computer industry, then shared between Sega and the PCs, only to be traded for Sony and the PC. That's why Mario just isn't so iconic I guess... BTW, are you interested in football?

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  3. CalebMarch 24, 2008 at 7:01 PM

    For some reason the USA LOVED the NES.

    I think I would rather play some SMS games but there were some cool games out there like FF, Dragon Warrior and Kirby.

    There were a ton of NESs around a few years ago when the new systems came out. But they sold so many damn systems it's not hard to find NES stuff in the USA.

    I just got Alien 3 awhile back. Not a bad little game.

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  4. gnomeMarch 24, 2008 at 7:19 PM

    Well, you can get lots of Spectrum stuff around here :) And AMSTRAD aint that rare either...

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  5. NebachadnezzaRMarch 24, 2008 at 9:22 PM

    "BTW, are you interested in football?"

    I assume you're talking about the European kind of football?

    To be honest no, not really. I'm a minority in a country were everything seems to stop whenever there's an important game...

    I like to watch Portugal playing in international competitions, though, and I enjoy some virtual footy from time to time, always with my friends since I don't find it so appealing against the AI

    But why do you ask?

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  6. gnomeMarch 24, 2008 at 9:29 PM

    Oh, well, I thought I'd ask you about a Portuguese coach we have in my team, but I guess you wouldn't know him. His name must be spelled something like Peceiro, but I'm not sure, as everyone writes it in Greek...

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  7. NebachadnezzaRMarch 25, 2008 at 10:42 AM

    Unfortunately no, I don't know the guy, but I was still able to dig this up if you're interested:

    http://tinyurl.com/326hb8

    You were really close, it's Peseiro with an "s" instead of a "c".

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  8. gnomeMarch 25, 2008 at 10:46 AM

    And to think I was almost ready to type it with an "s", but it seemed to easy to be correct. Heh.

    Thanks a ton for the link Nebacha! More than useful really.

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