CURRENTLY PLAYING: SUPER MARIO BROTHERS

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Hello everyone and welcome to the past.  This site is dedicated to the owner of The Games Arena's next console the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).  Hope you enjoy the site and here is a little introduction.

SUPER NINTENDO - Nintendo's first console took japan by storm, and dominated gaming for years.  Thanks to the vision of Shigsy and grumpy ol' Mr Yamauchi, the NES brought gamers a revolutionary controller, the best developers, and some of the 'funniest' games in history.  Marketing mess-ups and a late arrival made for a quieter time in the UK, though, and looking like a unfriendly gray shoe box didn't help its cause much either.  But still had some of the best games around like Mario, Megaman and Castlevania..  But now it is time to get one it can be picked up cheaply and the games can also be very cheap some just 50p - £1 try it you'll like it.

RECOMMENDED SYSTEM PRICE £15-£20

TOP 10

  1. SUPER MARIO BROTHERS

  2. SUPER MARIO BROTHERS 3

  3. DONKEY KONG

  4. GRADIUS

  5. GHOST 'N' GOBLINS

  6. R.C. PRO AM

  7. MEGAMAN

  8. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA

  9. PUNCH OUT!

  10. METROID

Technical Specs

Processor: 
6508 8-bit (using a custom Motorola 6502 class)

Processor speed: 
1.79 Mhz

Resolution: 
256x224 (ntsc) or 256x239 (pal)

Colors available: 
52

Max Colors on screen: 
16, 24 or 25. I've heard all three, I don't know which is correct as of now.

Max sprites: 
64

Max sprites per line: 
8

Sprite size: 
8x8 or 8x16

Picture Scroll: 
2 h.v

RAM: 
16 Kbit (2kb)

Video RAM: 
16 Kbit (2kb)

Min/Max cart size: 
192 Kbit - 4 Mbit 

Sound: 
PSG sound, 5 channels
2 square wave
1 triangle wave
1 noise
1 PCM

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