Nintendo Entertainment System — introduced?

Introduced: October 1985 in New York; nationwide in 1986.

Nintendo Entertainment System — price then?

Price then: About $179 for the Deluxe Set with R.O.B. the robot and the Zapper.

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When did the NES come out in the U.S.?

Nintendo Entertainment System

Introduced: October 1985 in New York; nationwide in 1986
Made by: Nintendo
Price then: About $179 for the Deluxe Set with R.O.B. the robot and the Zapper
The craze: Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990) opened like a movie; the NES sold over 60 million worldwide

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After the crash, no store wanted a video game console, so Nintendo sold the NES as a toy with a robot. R.O.B. did almost nothing, but he got the gray box through the door, and Super Mario Bros. did the rest.

Blowing into the cartridge, the Zapper and Duck Hunt, the Power Pad, Nintendo Power magazine. For a kid in 1988 the NES was the entire economy of the neighborhood, traded one cartridge at a time.

Sources: Wikipedia — Nintendo Entertainment System

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