By Jon Porter
The NES (or as it was originally known in Japan, the Famicon) was one of the most influential games consoles of all time. It resurrected the video games industry after the video game crash of 1983, and no I’m not joking.
Memories of the console are so fond that Nintendo has recently announced that it will be bringing the console back with as a miniature version with a selection of its games.
But people didn’t always love the console, as a recently discovered review for the console from 1986 shows.
Retro review
The review, which appears to have been published in August 1986 in the Milwaukee Journal a year after the console’s North American launch, is less than glowing.
The author, Edward J. Semrad, takes issue with everything about the console, from its graphics which he claims are lacking in detail compared to the Atari 7800 and Sega Master System, to its Zapper which is allegedly inferior to the Sega’s phaser gun.
But the real smackdown is reserved for the “poorly designed” controllers that are “the worst [he] has ever seen”.
Semrad takes issue with the eschewing of a joystick in favor of the now-iconic cross-shaped d-pad. “Since the controller …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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