This is Analog Agent Benjamin coming at you this week with my first ever post!

Do you remember when the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis (also known as the Mega Drive) game systems came out and everyone went from 8-bit games up to 16-bit games? Well at this time, Nintendo was losing sales on their NES games so they decided to remake the NES for the 90’s.

Even though this new version of the NES sold for $49.99 and fixed a lot of the issues with the old NES, (like the blinking screen if the system got dust in it, or that the game tray would wear out and would not go all the way down) no one was making anymore 8-Bit games for the NES and everyone had already moved onto the Super Nintendo systems. Too bad too, had I know all this info at the time, I would have ask for one as a kid and saved about $100.00 to get my old NES fixed.

So, did anyone here get the NES 2, or did you already move onto the Super Nintendo when it came out? Did you find the commercial for it as annoying as I did?

6 thoughts on “Artifacts of the Analog Age: NES 2 System

  1. Kurdt says:

    It’s sad that the NES 2 came out so late in the game, because it really was an improvement on the original system. My brother has one and it still works, long after his original NES bit the dust.

    Now if they made that ad now they’d have to put “Please do not shower with the NES 2” somewhere on it!

    1. benjamin says:

      I know what you mean. I keep thinking that if it did come out earlier and they had a side-by-side review of both the NES & NES 2 systems, the NES 2 would have sold more.

  2. Chris Sobieniak says:

    The only other downer is the console lacking composite outputs (something the original NES had from the start). Seems like an insult when you have to consider the Japanese version of this same console (known as the “AV Famicom” over there) had them instead of RF. Oh well.

    1. benjamin says:

      I know, when I did get a NES 2 I looked all over the thing to try and find the composite outputs and it did not have them. I was hoping they would make a RF/composite output converter box like what other game systems at the time had, but they never did. 🙁

      1. fluffy says:

        Yeah, that is the biggest downside to the NES 2. Fortunately, there are various hacks out there to add the composite outputs back on. Apparently if you find a replacement AV Famicom backplate you can swap it out, too, and get a multi AV connector like on the later systems (so you can hook it up via s-video or RGB if you have the equipment for it).

  3. knuxkitsune says:

    I never personally had one, but I had a school counselor who recognized my technical capabilities and had asked me to hook up her son’s NES 2 as well as install some programs on her computer. I played a little RC Pro-AM to “test” it.

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