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Unparalleled, SMB blew open the doors to the videogaming world. With rich palettes of colour, eight four level worlds, spot-on play control, and expert level design, SMB was a much longer game than most of Atari's products and was a game unlike any other at that time. SMB also had the benefit of being very simple to grasp; run, jump, and fire. It was also the first side-sroller as we know it, though Atari's PITFALL set up the concept. Also, it's one of the best. Without SMB, NES wouldn't have been nearly as big a hit in the beginning. In the end, Nintendo came at the industry's key moment. With a powerful new console (for that time) and a very well-designed game, Nintendo resurrected video gaming. With its phenomenal success of the NES and SMB, the video game industry once again took off, becoming one of the world's most significant economical contributors.

User Reviews about Nintendo NES System - Video Game Console

I ordered a used nes console because my old one had ceased to work. This used nes took a couple weeks to come in the mail, but it was well worth it. Aside from a few notches and scratches on it, it works perfectly. Not only did I get the console, it also came with cables and a controller which was unexpected and a great surprise. There are a few chips in it, but that is what makes it so nostalgic and awesome. So good buy, I highly recommend it. Also, if you get one of these and you get the blinking blue screen or whatever, youtube how to fix it, these old things take some skill to get working. -- Good product

This is so much fun! This will be sure to bring back memories of the 1980s. -- Mario + original NES = AWESOME!

Revised review, I bought this system with the intent on selling it, I should have picked up the worse game ever to test it. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it, had some awesome games and the system took be back to the days when I was a kid. Honestly if you are a game NES, SNES and DS all the way! You may ask why the Nintendo DS, kind of a kids console and all, remember it plays GBA games as well which are often remakes of classics. Also the second best part of this type of SNES is you can just throw your SNES right on top of it. Awesome Nintendo, not only for making a classic, but the next system SNES stacks on top of it so well. One thing I will say negative about I don't know how much it matters, but the controller's D pad seems to sometimes not respond. Now this could be my controllers of just an issue due to age of the controllers themselves. I vaguely remember this being an issue on some games as a kid, but really hardly an issue. 25 years and still going strong! -- A good system!

While many people see the NES as a dinosaur, a bulky, ugly thing compared to the fancy-schmacy PS3's and Wiis today. You young whippersnappers have no respect for your elders, that's what.

Without lovely 64 or 128 bit graphics, NES game designers had to use their brains and think of good plots, fluid play, and interesting gimmicks. Of course, some video games failed at that, such as Hydlide or Athena, but the NES truly had some of the finest titles to offer, many of which took on new incarnations throughout the ages to current gaming platforms (Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda, Tetris, Mega Man, Final Fantasy, the list goes on...)

Nowadays it's hard to find a intact, much less functioning NES and many of its games have been re-released into current platforms so these games aren't lost. But there's still something about the NES and it's simple joypad and array of fun and entertaining games. Without the NES, where would we be today? -- Best of the old school