The NES 8 bit console is alive!

Today was really interesting. Guess what happened. I went to take out the rubbish. When I stepped inside our block's garbage room I noticed that someone was obviously cleaning out thorough, perhaps before moving to live someplace else. You may have seen the picture before: toys, an old pair of boots, an old CRT monitor, a plate rack, etc.

However, I was sorting the rubbish, and when I reached the pasteboard section, I see a big cardboard box on top of all the milk-/cornflake boxes and suchlike. My "tech-eye" then gasps, realizing what I stand in front of. An original box for the Nintendo Entertainment System (8 bit), launched in Sweden the 1th of September 1986.



Wow!
Me myself had the sequel bought by my mum, the (16 bit) SNES console, which came a few years later. However, I always thought that the kids who was hanging steady flat from back at "NES age" were the masters. Us "SNES kiddies" couldn't really relate in the same way to anything. However, after spending lots(!) of hours playing Super Mario World, Turtles in Time, Donkey Kong, Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat I, and other perls, I began to fancy the whole business. Half by coincidence; half by determination, I started building my own console collection. Just to make myself clear, this was at the age of eighteen, when the NES/SNES consoles were both pretty ancient. However, I have my own SNES console (which I recieved as a gift at the age of eight nine something), a NES(!) console (which I bought from a friend), a N64 console (which my mum bought me later), and an Amiga 600 console (also this bought from a friend).



The thing is, my NES 8-bit machine is of course just the console with cables. Now, I have the original box for it. Because of course, I took the box from the garbage room with me home. Some people would say this was foolishness; while some would see my thought behind it and cheer me for this piece of glorious "garbage room loot". It may be added that the cardboard box was in A+ condition, even the expanded polystyrene was as new. On top of all this, inside the box I found the original warranty receipt, date-stamped in 1990 by a known Swedish mailorder company. Also(!), this funny little thing you place the controller into; transforming it to a joystick. Like this wasn't enough, even the instruction sheet was in there. Everything original. Sweeeeeeet!



So, you better start looking for the Ebay ad where "I sell my NES console, all original accessories included, see them pictures!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System

Celebrated this with rhubarb pie with ice cream (old faschion vanilla).
We deserved this.



I'm truly the luckiest man alive; for several reasons!