Family Basic Nintendo Famicom Commercial

[scoobydude51]

very OLD

[dacdillinger]

@scoobydude51 No shit sherlock?

[BrickBlaster5000]

@scoobydude51 Only 29

[Caleb9849]

@scoobydude51 It's also very JAPANESE lol

[SoopahUltraTV]

Wow compared to this, koodo on xbox is a half assed piece of shit!

(No joke this looks much better)

[ACluelessKid]

@SoopahUltraTV

Well this is Nintendo, and it's the NES. It has all the great classics, and a bunch of Japanese-only games.

[AnimeFanPan]

old school is awesome

[joe9320]

There is dialup in the 80's? What the fuck? And the Famicom is like the C64? Wow.

[Bastiest]

It'd be kick ass to own one of these. Would be perfect for my console collection.

[ExcelSub]

holy crap i didnt know the famicom had a keyboard

[Bastiest]

@ExcelSub Famicom = Family Computer.

Originally nintendo was C64 kind of a computer wich is also why it used disks.

If I do recall right it had some problems in it tho, later on it was modified in to console version and flaws it had were fixed.

[Doommaster1994]

Just ordered one of these off of ebay.

[ojideagu]

@Doommaster1994 How much did you pay

[Doommaster1994]

It was somewhere between $100 and $200. Also, I found out, the AVS wasn't released because when they were showing it at a show, nobody was really interested in it.

[ojideagu]

@Doommaster1994 Cool, they are going for about that much on Ebay now. Most are from Japanese sellers.

The west was already full with 8bit computers! Doubt it would have sold here.

[lucifer984]

lol as a kid i got a pirate version of this but in english.

[barryshawn]

I never see there is keyboard for famicom..........

[NOOBNUT08]

BBS is a bulletin Board System its the old version of the internet idiots.

[cubanlaughs]

I'm is gonna get me one of those Famicoms somday;)

[yangj08]

...The Famicom was definitely better than the NES- so why didn't they release the same thing in both countries? America missed out on the Disk System, this, and a bunch of other Japan-only stuff (including a modem-based online system, if I remember correctly).

[lordcycle]

modem based online system? the internet wasn't even around then let alone a modem.

[JuicyPlayer]

There were BBS back in the early 80s.

[deksa22810]

if BBS stands for broadband service your crazy. there was no conception of high speed internet when there was no internet. a modem to connect a famicom to another famicom i believe but a modem to dial up into was not possible.

[dacdillinger]

Well, there was a stock trader for the famicom that had a modem and connected to a phone line. You could trade or check stocks with it. I have one of these in my collection. There was also one where you could bet on horse races, but I do not have that. But these devices that connected to the famicom had modems that dialed to an online service to do all this.

[SidepocketPro]

BBS stands for Bulletin Board System. Its basically a very old version of what we call "web forums" today.

The reason why they released a different version for the US is because there was the video game crash in the US so they had to convince Americans who did not like video games to like them. For instance, the NES loads cartages like a VCR does. Most Americans at the time knew what a VCR was, but not a video game system.

[brickman409]

there was videogame systems in america before nes like, atari 2600, colecovision, vectrex, oddeysey

[thatguyontheright1]

@deksa22810 BBS actually stands for Bulletin Board System.

[ojideagu]

@lordcycle The Internet was created in the 1960's by the army and used by Universities later way before the World wide web. There were bulletin board systems using modems in the 80's and even still in the mid 90's in the UK

[Watcher3223]

Actually, a big reason why the disk system was never released outside of Japan was that ways were discovered to illegally copy Famicom and disk system games onto modified Mitsumi Quick Disks.

To protect the software revenue stream of their product, Nintendo canceled the disk system in 1989, though they continued to provide support for keeping existing disk system hardware functional until 2004.

[Doommaster1994]

I'm not sure if this is true or not but according to Wikipedia, the Family BASIC was not released in US because Nintendo didn't want the NES to be considered a computer. There IS however a prototype version of the NES version called the Nintendo AVS (Advanced Video System).