Bought an NES!

[Mulligan]

I had to post here because my friends don’t understand and my girlfriend definitely doesn’t understand. Sure they do the polite smile and nod, but I know you guys get it. Hell, you are or have been in the same boat.

You originally intend on getting a $25 RetroN off Amazon. But then you get really exited about the game you’re making and with all the time you’re putting into it, you can’t get an inferior machine that will screw up your color scheme and mess with your music. You find yourself on eBay pricing out machines. Then you get a notification that a NES is going for half of what it should and is about to end. You go a little crazy on bidding and end up dropping $90 instead of the original $25 that you had planned on going into the hobby.

P.s. On day 11 of the 12 days. Great info. Thanks!

 

[SciNEStist]

Original NES hardware used to be way easier to find super cheap. everyone assumed theirs was broken when they just needed a bit of maintenance.

 

[Mulligan]

Ya, I’ve been watching. They do not go for cheap. That goes for most of the toys I used to have. Have you priced out a Fireball Island game? Those were going for crazy money, along with The Dark Tower game.

 

[dale_coop]

Hahaha, I totally understand you @Mulligan
My wife never been into games. So, first she was totally mad when I bought stuffs for the NES... but after a few years, seeing it was not about playing but more about creating and having the "right" device to show it, she was really supportive. Now, she pushes my son and me to make our games, enhance our gears, go to conventions, showing our works, meeting all those awesome creators, sharing, helping, and of course supporting the community.
If your friends and family love you, they will understand one day.

 

[Mulligan]

Hahaha, I totally understand you @Mulligan
My wife never been into games. So, first she was totally mad when I bought stuffs for the NES... but after a few years, seeing it was not about playing but more about creating and having the "right" device to show it, she was really supportive. Now, she pushes my son and me to make our games, enhance our gears, go to conventions, showing our works, meeting all those awesome creators, sharing, helping, and of course supporting the community.
If your friends and family love you, they will understand one day.

They are definitely supportive. They just get the same look on their face that I do when the girlfriend starts talking about knitting

 

[Rodnade]

lol, I can relate to your story about family!
The issue I've experienced with third party consoles are the controllers. Some work ok with 4 directional games but with 8 direction games like Gun.Smoke
they are complete trash in my opinion. You made the right choice!
The knitting cracked me up, My wife does that too!

 

[Mulligan]

lol, I can relate to your story about family!
The issue I've experienced with third party consoles are the controllers. Some work ok with 4 directional games but with 8 direction games like Gun.Smoke
they are complete trash in my opinion. You made the right choice!
The knitting cracked me up, My wife does that too!

That was one of the reasons I went with the nes. I think there’s after market parts for upgrading the newer controllers but that’s just pouring money into a system that already has issues.

Gun smoke is amazing. It’s one of those games that I’ve been thinking about since I made the purchase. I remember having a love hate relationship with it.