never really thought of this...

[cyberkiller6276]

...but famicom turns 20 tommorow.

20 years ago tommorow, the famicom was introduced to the japanese household...

read more (http://www.gamespy.com/articles/july03/famicom/)

i read a book that said the famicom (or the super famicom, i cant remember which) was supposed to be more than video game console. maybe they'll mention that later in the week...

[Jawa Podracer]

Awesome.

Go Nintendo!

[Mak-X]

The book might have been "Game Over" a history of Nintendo. There were plans to use the Famicom to do stuff like trade stock and order a pizza, many homes had this little computers that could be made to do this. I also hear that they are ceasing the production of the Famicom, the parts are getting harder to find is one of the reasons.

[cyberkiller6276]

if the front cover has mario flying on it, then yes. i dont have it any more, i only borrowed it from the library....
there's another book i actually bought called "joystic nation: how video games won our hearts, ate our quarters and rewired our minds" i think its a history of coin- op game, i havent read it yet...

[Jawa Podracer]

I saw the Game Over book with Mario on the cover at EB. If I wasn't buying a game, I probably wouldv'e picked that up.
Use the Famicon to order pizza? Interesting...

[Mak-X]

Originally posted by cyberkiller6276
if the front cover has mario flying on it, then yes. i dont have it any more, i only borrowed it from the library....

Yeah that's the one
http://kaielorl.student.umd.edu/gameover.htm