Does the NES Have a Secret Master System Port? | Nostalgia Nerd

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Go to www.brilliant.... to sign up for free. And also, the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium membership. Ahhh, yes, the NES, a think of blocky curiosity. On the bottom of the NES is a rectangular insert, and behind that lies, well, an expansion slot. This video explores the NES expansion slot as well as some of the rumours surrounding it.
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Комментарии : 2,7 тыс.

@Nostalgianerd 4 года назад

Gentle reminder: Japanese pronunciation is not my forte. It's not even my moat.

@XiaosChannel 4 года назад

It's okay. It's english. I'm used to it.

@eurocrusader1724 4 года назад

Drawbridge then?

@ArcadeCabNBud 4 года назад

tim vine would be proud of that one lol

@letsdiscussitoversometea8479 4 года назад

You might just do well to learn the correct pronunciation - sadly, a lingering sense of disappointment persists for those who feel "vocally" disconnected from the origins of such wonderful technology. Not just in terms of phonics, but also in terms of how one might treat the items. A very noticeable pattern I tend to have found, is that the Japanese - in general - seem to look after their property alot better than those of us in the UK. We tend to be...maybe 3rd best, behind Japan, and South Korea. Alot of catching up to do!

@Jolis_Parsec 4 года назад

ZeOverman Only if it’s a Bailey by the name of Justin. 😋

@musiclabmn 4 года назад

I’m a Minnesotan and my parents were one of the test families for the NES/MN lottery system. I remember my dad taking over my NES several times during the week to check his numbers. We were forced to give back the modem at the end of the test, but I remember the device and the interface very well.

@jodyhunt4699 4 года назад

Music LabMN I would like to find one.

@ilkerozyavuz604 4 года назад

Would you mind to share some more details on how this actually worked. E.G. did it have an own game cartridge, or was the software embedded into the peripheral. Appreciate to get access to your memories :)

@musiclabmn 4 года назад

Ilker Özyavuz As far as I remember the software was embedded. That way it would always be available when powering on. If you had a regular cartridge installed it would overrule the NES modem and start the game instead. I’m trying to see if I maybe have some random pictures of my gaming setup from back then in case the modem is pictured.

@crowmigration8245 4 года назад

Forced? Did they come to your door with guns?

@musiclabmn 4 года назад

@@crowmigration8245 Nothing that exciting.. but it had to be mailed back or risk possible legal action by Nintendo. I'll have to ask my dad, he probably remembers more details.

@offrails 4 года назад

"Gambling on a device marketed towards children" It looks like EA succeeded where the Minnesota Lottery failed

@AwesomeHairo 4 года назад

EA: "You're weak" Minnesota Lottery: "I'm you"

@Galerak1 4 года назад

It's not gambling, it's surprise mechanics 🤣

@uiopuiop3472 4 года назад

yaaa, bannerjack

@cmdraftbrn 4 года назад

its not gambling. it's redistribution of wealth, to the wealthy.

@nthgth 4 года назад

@@cmdraftbrn to be fair, it's entirely voluntary

@-redacted_by_youtube 4 года назад

I still remember getting up super early on Christmas only to find my parents playing the nes. My brother and I had to wait an hour lol.

@jayste9334 2 года назад

Ahhh 😂😂..my best friends parents..used to kick our butts..in certain Nintendo games..i used to get so mad

@mathgasm8484 2 года назад

That is a funny memory.

@werewolffox8918 7 месяцев назад

fake no parent would do that

@r.jclark4641 6 месяцев назад

@@werewolffox8918 "HOW DARE YOUR REALITY NOT EXACTLY MATCH MY REALITY! EVERYONES' LIVES ARE THE SAME AS MINE!"

@EhCloserLook 6 месяцев назад

This would have traumatized me if it had happened to me.

@seabomb1 3 года назад

it’s an expansion slot for peripherals that weren’t released, saved you 12 minutes

@Ayixlia 3 года назад

There are 3rd parties that made those things for it

@FRESHx913x 3 года назад

How about a spoiler alert? Dick nose.

@BrendonGreenNZL 3 года назад

Not really, you didn't say _why_ the peripherals were never released.

@JPROP-vb7sv 3 года назад

Thanks

@CASLOAcademy 3 года назад

idiot. thats why he has a great youtube channel and you dont! dick head!

@duane8620 4 года назад

One of my friends dad was a traveling businessman and often went to Japan. This kid I was SO jealous of, he had Japanese releases of NES/Famicom titles I never seen before. He had this "Game Genie" looking thing that would slide into his NES and would allow the non US versions to be played on his US NES. He then was the FIRST KID to own a NeoGeo that I knew. Envious moments in childhood :D

@Olkv3D 3 года назад

The NeoGeo was crazy, man. ~ The NG arcades cabinets had slots in them above the coin box in the front. If you has the same game card at home, you could bring there and put in to the cabinet. It would recognize your save file; all you Stats, Unlocks, High Scores, etc. ~ Then, it would update the game card with all new info and when you take it home pop it the NeoGeo console, bam! It's all there. ~ And sh t, man, This was like, what, early to mid 1990's. Crazy stuff. Way ahead of it's time. ~ ✌😎🕹

@Aaron48219 3 года назад

I had a friend who had one of those "game genie" adapter things to play non-US games. If I recall, it was yellow.

@douglasjarnagan3835 3 года назад

I had a friend that had a CDi. I felt bad for him.

@duane8620 3 года назад

@@Aaron48219 YES, yes it was!

@iampoch01 3 года назад

I had that, too! It may seem moot in hindsight since I also have a Famicon but I still remember it getting some use. I'm in the Philippines, BTW so the Famicom and its cartridges are much more prevalent here than the NES. I got the latter as a gift from my aunt in the US.

@ash36230 4 года назад

The irony of banning "gambling on a device marketed towards children" considering today with modern games

@SYXX-II 4 года назад

Gta v: 👀

@4eyes2killingyou 4 года назад

I still wanna know why there isn't the same energy towards gambling mechanics as is all the violence

@cpufreak101 4 года назад

@@4eyes2killingyou pretty sure at this point it's largely a point of the only people that care don't know, or know and don't care.

@4eyes2killingyou 4 года назад

@@cpufreak101 believe it or not, there are people who still think certain games should go away cuz of violence but don't seem to mind having slot machines pretending to be sports games. Like if people still hate the violence then they need the same energy towards micro-transactions.

@DmanLucky_98 4 года назад

Mario party games in a nutshell

@SolarMechanic 4 года назад

Remember folks: If the title is a question, odds are the answer is "No."

@ncot_tech 4 года назад

Mike Carson “What is this for?” “No”. Hmm... 🤔

@DenkyManner 4 года назад

@@ncot_tech see, you proved the point.

@ZipplyZane 4 года назад

Well, obviously. But I still wonder what that port is for.

@ncot_tech 4 года назад

ZipplyZane it’s an expansion port that could have been used for plugging other devices into the NES. Except nobody wanted to do anything other than play Mario on a kids toy. I’m sure there’s a video explaining this somewhere 😉

@danieledwards3376 4 года назад

Indeed - see my video titled "When the title is a question is the answer 'no'?".

@taotechnique 4 года назад

For the longest time, I have thought of that slot/port as something that the factory used for testing and calibration. I work for a medical device manufacturer, and we build automated pharmaceutical equipment. We have ports, much like what you see under the NES, where we plug into before full on stress testing, to install the OS, calibrate controls, etc. Once we are finished, we close off that port before shipment. It looks like I way off in my assumption. Great video, I learned something new today!

@SimonBuchanNz 4 года назад

You do find that stuff on consumer hardware on the internal boards, of course: presumably they don't think the plastic shell will affect the performance, which seems like a dangerous assumption!

@CONSOLETRUTH2 4 года назад

Not a bad guess at all though, that is for sure

@HappyBeezerStudios 4 года назад

Like the J_Tag connector on macbooks. Ohh, my DVB-T reciever got a RS232 port on the back. No Idea what that would be for, but my guess is for updating the firmware.

@thedarkcave8403 4 года назад

@@SimonBuchanNz Pretty much every Roomba model has a serial port somewhere for OSMOs that were sent out to customers and update the Roomba's firmware if needed, so there's another example.

@vvv6666 4 года назад

Idexx?Sysmex?

@charlenewoods7631 3 года назад

Nostalgia man: breaks the plastic protector on the nes Me: physically writhing in pain

@MidiFister 3 года назад

someone said that word for word 3 months before you (and who knows, probably twenty others before that)

@zenmello7616 3 года назад

@@MidiFister The same could be said about your comment, or mine for that matter. Don't be a twat.

@Crimsonedge1 3 года назад

@@zenmello7616 And yet you still commented. As did I. Difference between us? I can admit to being a cunt.

@thewhitemustang 3 года назад

I am also a cunt

@Crimsonedge1 3 года назад

@@thewhitemustang Good for you my man. Respect on the honesty. End of the day, you can trust a cunt. Its the liar you can't trust.

@cpljimmyneutron 3 года назад

You mentioned the Gamecube ports, those are probably the ones that had the most real world use. I had a portable gamecube that I had built for myself. In one port you put the modem or network adapter, attached directly to the bottom was a battery pack, and attached using the very stiff carry handle was a screen. The system would play for about 2 hours on a single charge. Nothing compared to today, but amazing for the time... however, I eventually stopped using it portable and changed the bottom expansion... I added the Gameboy Player that allowed me to play ALL gameboy games from any series of gameboy on my gamecube. In my opinion this is the best expansion ever created for any video game console, it is literally an entire 2nd game console that plays and entire family of other games. And of course Nintendo kept this idea when they released the Wii, with the ability to play gamecube games and even use gamecube controllers and memory cards... at least until someone figured out how to hack the console through the gamecube port to play copied games forcing nintendo to stop selling Wii's with this feature.

@CleverGirlAAH Год назад

Yeah, God forbid we have fun with our game consoles.

@SuperM789 10 месяцев назад

cutting gamecube backwards compatibility was done for cost cutting on the later, cheaper models, but yeah the wii had a piracy problem

@Joostinonline 4 года назад

It's depressing how rarely Nintendo uses their expansion slots.

@Joostinonline 4 года назад

@John wasted potential isn't better than no potential

@enricopassoni1 4 года назад

It means that the systems are well designed

@ElectroDFW 4 года назад

Gotta blame the marketplace for that: too much competition and the breakneck speed of technology to keep up with meant manufacturers were desgining newer consoles rather than accessories for models that would be woefully out-of-date by the time those accessories were designed, developed, tested and shipped. Plus, they never really considered America a primary market to develop for/cater to, nor were any licensing agreements lucrative for any third-party vendors to try, hence things like the Game Genie being unofficial, unlicensed, and unsupported by Nintendo.

@Joostinonline 4 года назад

@Joe Cassidy I said rarely, not never.

@Halbared 4 года назад

I suppose the cartridge chips superseded it.

@nitrous36 4 года назад

Great video! I always wondered what that covered port on the NES was for. The best I came up with was a diagnostic port for repairs and troubleshooting by Nintendo or maybe a docking point used on retail displays. Thank you for making this.

@slimmdogg420 7 месяцев назад

It was an expansion port, we were supposed to get the disk system

@lliaolsen728 4 года назад

The N-ever E-nding S-tory

@SegaDream131 4 года назад

Dude, they made two movies.... They BOTH END And so did the story....

@AndyMitchellUK26 3 года назад

@@SegaDream131 The music at 7:04 in the background...

@drewgates1167 3 года назад

@@SegaDream131 total rip off for theater goers..

@SegaDream131 3 года назад

Never ending popcorn tub plus the mega cup o coke= the never ending theater piss.... Oh and the sodium concentration is caustic....

@03bgood 3 года назад

@@SegaDream131 They made three of them, actually.

@HicSvntDracones Год назад

I remember getting my NES when I was like 6 or so, and I also remember finding that port on the bottom and wondering what it was, I think it was one of the things that really kicked off my childhood hobby of taking apart everything possible.

@thestamper 4 года назад

I died a little inside every time the plastic tabs broke.

@kenrickeason 4 года назад

I was screaming at my phone screen *"What are you doing?! No!!"* LOL!

@dakat5131 4 года назад

@@eclogites RU-vid in a nutshell. "Here's an extremely rare artifact, very few were made and I've got one. Time to destroy it for the views"

@sepg5084 4 года назад

@@dakat5131 it's their device, they can do whatever they want.

@williamblack1214 3 года назад

Me too

@antoniogallegos1652 3 года назад

We can say an NES console was hurt and raped today. And we couldn't do nothing about it

@Vokabre 4 года назад

When 1:52 was playing fireworks had started outside my window and the first thought was "those are intense sound effects"

@ksquidplaysminecraft 4 года назад

@Speedstar yeah, that's me

@dreammfyre 4 года назад

1980s: “Kids gambling? That’s illegal!” 2020s: “Kids gambling? It’s free tax money!”

@MosoKaiser 4 года назад

Developers: "Kids gambling? But those are probability-based surprise mechanics."

@ablemagawitch 4 года назад

Looks at "Wall Street Kid" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Kid And Casino Kid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Kid and tell me that weren't targeting kids top gamble

@markstewart8171 4 года назад

It's a gamble to let my kid play fortnite with my card attatched to the ps4.

@TheSuperiorLite 3 года назад

@@markstewart8171 get them an NES

@Troutslayer_ 4 года назад

My neibor called the nintendo hotline in 1990 and asked what the port was for. They told him it was for a modem so that you can play online with friends

@AwesomeHairo 4 года назад

Bruh

@luislizano7025 4 года назад

He is saying the truth, I was the Nintendo guy in the phone.

@doordieace5high 4 года назад

@@luislizano7025 And I was the CIA agent who secretly recorded the whole thing, for 'research purposes.'

@dano8902 4 года назад

And I'm the legendary uncle who worked for Nintendo who had early access to all those amazing games you were salivating in anticipation for :)

@zeriben12 4 года назад

And im the phone who was used to call the nintendo hotline

@skookum42 11 месяцев назад

I worked in the Nintendo Call Center back in the late 80s, early 90s. We used to joke that the port was for catching all the Marios that fall down pipes and that it needs to be emptied from time to time.

@pappagetti 3 года назад

Every once in a blue moon, RU-vid recommends something I'll actually enjoy watching.

@iankempster7007 4 года назад

This system never gets old. My friend when I was a kid used the av side ports to hook up to his commodore monitor. Great video as always.

@ElectroDFW 4 года назад

The composite ports are the only reason to own one of these 'VCR' versions versus the top-loader one.

@The_Notorious_N.O.E. 4 года назад

Well, thirty years later and I lived long enough to finally find out what that damn plastic cover and slot was for.

@anthonynorton666 2 года назад

First, thanks you for the video. Second, I think the idea of having an undesignated expansion port makes sense on any gaming machine. It allows for up selling options without requiring the user to forfeit their original investment. Third, I'd like to see a convention with demonstrations and awards for home-spun peripherals for that port. 🥳

@WolfVsWolf82 3 года назад

I remember getting an NES for Christmas 1985 & remember specifically opening up that bottom expansion slot cover & wondering what it was for, realizing the system didn’t come with anything that fit into it I put the cover on & left it alone

@Larry 4 года назад

Should you really be divulging such Nintendo secrets, you might find Luigi hovering over your bed one night giving you the death eye!!!

@xenos_n. 4 года назад

I read this comment in your voice

@bigballrecall 4 года назад

Buttholes poop

@Pehmokettu 4 года назад

That only happens if you burn the Luigi board. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-15nNY7uofNw.html

@vivimannequin 4 года назад

Oh shit

@WTFBOOMDOOM 4 года назад

@@xenos_n. But hello, you!

@datamanmachine 4 года назад

I always thougt the NES would get a Disc System upgrade like the Famicom!

@swoll1980 4 года назад

The UK was allergic to floppies, so they probably didn't bother adapting a NES for floppies. I'm surprised they didn't make a cassette drive for the west. Either that or ROM got really cheap.

@Aquarirus 4 года назад

Thought*

@Aquarirus 4 года назад

@@swoll1980 wrong

@swoll1980 4 года назад

@@Aquarirus No shit... My keyboard doesn't work all the time. I dropped it. I've been spelling thought since I was 5. What's wrong?

@Aquarirus 4 года назад

@@swoll1980 you dropped ur entire fucking keyboard lmfao

@Remigrator 4 года назад

pls leave ma weed in the hidden compartment, I will be around shortly to pick it up 🤣

@gwarrichmond6232 3 года назад

I remember hiding "stuff " in there - in my early years HA HA HA HA HA HA 😂 👍

@MrProPics 3 года назад

8:07 Experience head to head without leaving your house! 2020: May I have that?

@Wrestlelamia 4 года назад

I loved the callback to the Red Dwarf 'Shash' insertion 😂

@fastestfatboi755 4 года назад

lol

@sheldenrocks 3 года назад

Captain Rimmer !

@RealRedRabbit 3 года назад

How to spot a British person.

@stigmartin3072 3 года назад

Any red dwarf reference makes it a good day 😂👍

@Welcome2TheInternet 3 года назад

@@RealRedRabbit "How to spot a British person." Probably could have just listened to his English accent tbh. Wanna know how to spot a NON-"British" person? They use the word "British".

@jonathanellis6097 4 года назад

It's amazing how ambitious they were with such (relatively speaking) basic tech.

@johnnymnemonic69 4 года назад

It was cutting edge stuff at the time.

@Yeen125 4 года назад

mmhmm yep Eh, maybe back when the Famicom was first released in 1983. But by 1985-86 (when the NES was released in the US), we already had 16-bit computers being sold to the public. It’s why the NES was marketed as a toy for kids here (and sold for much cheaper than a new PC).

@meetoo594 4 года назад

@@johnnymnemonic69 by the time it reached the UK it was looking pretty crap compared to the master system and the St and Amiga. It wasn't cheap and neither were the games. I never knew anyone who had one or even wanted one.

@crnkmnky 4 года назад

@@meetoo594 🤔 I never knew this, until the first lines of this video. Interesting perspective; we yanks have so much love and nostalgia for that crap machine. Did the 1983 market crash only affect consoles in USA?

@meetoo594 4 года назад

@@crnkmnky yup, the first I heard there was a crash was American RU-vidrs talking about it. Computer mags etc didn't even bother mentioning it as it really didn't effect us at all, in fact in the UK it was a boom time with soft and hardware manufacturers thriving. We were a nation of home computer users rather than consoles so it was easier for anyone to publish a game or form a software house. I imagine this had a huge impact on the market.

@sirMAXX77 4 года назад

I've always wondered about that and I even took mine apart to take a closer look. It didn't take me long to think it was some kind access a tool would plug in for diagnosis, or some kind of dev tool and I wanted to have access to something like that. Thinking I could make my own games. I would have loved one of those NES modems.

@Nexis 3 года назад

7:05 the best part of this sequence is The Neverending Story score.

@Z0MBUSTER 3 года назад

Erm nope..it's called "Rain in New-York" by RIJKO ... It sounds quite similar though haha, what a ripoff ^^

@leex187 3 года назад

@@Z0MBUSTER nope never ending story

@Z0MBUSTER 3 года назад

@@leex187 Ok then, which song title? I bet you won't find it ;p

@ericnear4273 3 года назад

Not exactly the same but very similar!

@Z0MBUSTER 3 года назад

@@ericnear4273 Yes like I said, NOT from the movie but very close... lee is wrong !

@ethaneveraldo 4 года назад

It took him 4 and a half minutes just to say the expansion port, the “mysterious” port hidden underneath almost every consoles, is an expansion port.

@Wheelio 4 года назад

Lol. Seriously, even I was starting to get annoyed at how it was taking him multiple spoken sentences to basically say one word.

@morrisz2 4 года назад

@Cutting Yoko’s bra! Apparently monetized videos have to be 10 minutes long as a minimum. Just something I've heard a few weeks ago. Never checked if it's true

@DanielFerreira-ez8qd 4 года назад

i see no problem with explaining it first, it's not like he says absolute meaningless fluff, like other youtubers.

@cornfarts 4 года назад

@ how dare you!

@williamgorsich150 4 года назад

@@Wheelio understand the more descriptions given in first part?..lol it slows down many questions by making severl graphics to visualize.

@DenkyManner 4 года назад

It's a port for a water-feature, hence the water runoff channels.

@bsharpmajorscale 4 года назад

Water-cooled NES. Eek out a bit of extra performance so you can play Nightmare on Elm Street with a reasonable frame rate.

@RockRedGenesis 4 года назад

Where's Charlie Dimmock when you need her?!

@AIex_Kidd 3 года назад

The three things of my life I'm most proud of: 1) To be alive 2) To be a gamer 3) To be credited ("thanks to...") in the ending of Alex Kidd in Miracle World 2

@Renatodonadio 3 года назад

The expansion port was also under the SNES (anyone heard about a partnership with Sony for a CD reader peripheral named "Play Station"?) and under the Nintendo 64 (where it was used to connect a reader of backup copies of games on CD) ;-D

@Sniper257 4 года назад

1:58 Okay seriously, does EVERYONE have at least one of these exact screwdrivers kicking around?

@SegaDream131 4 года назад

Mines red AND black....

@86twin 3 года назад

Yes.

@tsm688 25 дней назад

I don't... But I know where to find one. I'm sure it's pretty ancient.

@zackschilling4376 4 года назад

Id love to see if someone could make a modem to play NES to NES, even though it would be a stupid amount of work. Each game would have to have some sort of header or front end to match up with someone else online. Is that even possible doing it peer to peer and not a central server? I know emulation has some network features but I never tried them

@supers0nic77 Год назад

I still have cables for genesis and ps1 you can link up 2 of the same systems together with 2 tvs and play 2 player like that. Doom ps1 and zero tolerance for genesis. I know it's not what you were saying though

@customsongmaker Год назад

There was the Xband Modem for SNES and Genesis that allowed dial-up multiplayer for Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, and a few other games.

@17R3W 4 года назад

As Adam sandler might tell you, "you can put your weed in there"

@iankempster7007 4 года назад

🤣

@imnegan935 4 года назад

Wrong guy, it’s Rob Schneider

@keithseratt4562 4 года назад

No, it was Adam Sandlers stoner shop worker character in The Hot Chick ( which is a Rob Schneider film ) that said "you can put your weed in there"

@freedustin 4 года назад

@@keithseratt4562 Rob Schneider did that gag on SNL in 1993. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CKOc6hXMDhc.html

@17R3W 4 года назад

@@freedustin At any rate, this was clip I was referring to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WNUotOaqN9M.html

@guybroyles48 3 года назад

I've never seen one with the plastic tab that required being broken.

@electron2601 3 года назад

I owned several.

@guybroyles48 3 года назад

@@electron2601It seems like I kind of remember those. The ones that I remember most just had a cover that was held in place with a couple tabs you pushed in to remove it. As kids we wondered what it was for. My memory sucks, because I have no idea what it was for, and I'm sure this video explained it. lol

@ArachmadiPutra 4 года назад

a : i have dashboard at home b : you really put your car dashboard at home? a : *show sega mega drive and its expansions*

@EnigmaBarry 4 года назад

The track at 7:00 reminded me of the flying themes from The Neverending Story. Very 80's. You can tell whoever made it for your video had a whimsical, fantastical childhood. Thanks for the nostalgia!

@Thejoeking75 3 года назад

Yes! Exactly what I thought.. love that movie

@milesaway1980 2 года назад

I thought the same! Glad I'm not the only one.

@klax001 Год назад

It does! This is the song he used ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2m4WkQontyw.html

@jamessm4401 4 года назад

"Sinful rectangular way" ooooo baby keep going. I'm half there.

@fluffycritter 4 года назад

The "Nintendo Entertainment System NES version?" What, were there other versions of the NES in Europe than... the NES? Here in the US it was just labeled "Nintendo Entertainment System." (And why is "NES Version" in a completely different font than everything else?) EDIT: Okay so later in the video there's a European Version. Now I'm even more confused.

@wich1 4 года назад

Yeah, don’t know what that nonsense is, never had anything like it on my NESes and I’m in Europe

@meetoo594 4 года назад

There were a few different distributors Tonka and Mattel and the machines were slightly different iirc. They both balsed the marketing right up do nintendo eventually marketed the thing themselves.

@fluffycritter 4 года назад

Okay so the Wikipedia article has more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System#Configurations Basically there were a few different versions released in Europe and the UK, and they were apparently incompatible with each other via lockout chips, so the labeling was so people would know which games to buy. Which seems like a really bad move in retrospect, since it would just cause more confusion than anything.

@aaronosborne4906 4 года назад

My NES has "Mattel Version" on it.

@DystopianOverture 4 года назад

Mattel thought that selling NES in chemists was a good idea, spoiler it wasn't XD

@BrainSlugs83 3 года назад

Interestingly, we visited our local Nintendo headquarters in the 90s (in Redmond I think?) and I specifically asked about that port. And they told me it was a diagnostic port, that when faulty devices were sent in for repair, they said they had a diagnostic harness that connected to that port. That's probably not quite accurate, but that's what they told us.

@CurlyFromTheSwirly Год назад

Sounds like they wanted to keep the reason top secret.

@yy19aos 3 года назад

The NES is my favorite console. I found mine in an old drawer, it was my dads form the early 80’s. Works good on my old CRT TV

@travismcdowell954 4 года назад

"What is this for?"...To hide your pot.

@wisteela 4 года назад

I've always wondered if it was used for the multicartridge display/test units in shops here in the UK.

@projectmayhem6898 4 года назад

Can you imagine online gaming on the NES in the 80s? Some guy shoots you in an Ikari Warriors death match and you hear, "Oh yeah? Your mom shot JR! "

@themanfromroomfive9445 3 года назад

😂😂😂

@themanfromroomfive9445 3 года назад

This joke is only funny to old ppl lol

@projectmayhem6898 3 года назад

@@themanfromroomfive9445 That really rustles my jimmies.

@AVClarke 3 года назад

"But the NES really is a box full of secrets." "What is a NES? A miserable little pile of secrets!"

@jamielofts 4 года назад

7:05 got to love The NeverEnding Story music.

@Rick_Todd 4 года назад

It came from epidemicsound Try searching for 80s fantasy

@HippieMumboJumbo 4 года назад

Fa la laaaa la la laaaa la la laaa la la laaa laaaa. FALCOR!

@GroovingPict 4 года назад

dont know what youre talking about mate, the NES was massively popular in Europe, at least here in Norway. I remember as a kid I would collect 10øre coins (basically equivalent to 1cent US, slightly more), and since it was our lowest value coin and also physically very small I would always find them on the ground and like relatives would maybe give me some etc. Well eventually I had over 10,000 of the fuckers and an NES cost 1000 kroner at that time, so I bought an NES with 10,000 10øre coins (we did go via the bank first, to have them counted and exchanged :p )

@Slavolko 4 года назад

That's insane.

@Halbared 3 года назад

Yeah, Nintendo owned Scandinavia.

@tsm688 25 дней назад

(you felt your kromer being drained)

@gerrygalactic 4 года назад

Bruh i remember in the village where my grandma lives in Poland, the neighbours had duckhunt on NES in the 90's

@themanfromroomfive9445 3 года назад

That sounds about right, Christmas of 1990 I got my first Nintendo and that game came standard with the system

@themanfromroomfive9445 3 года назад

UnFun fact: you can't even play duck hunt (or any shooting based NES game) on newer model (flat screen) TVs Because the light gun won't register

@christophermichael.w.7577 2 года назад

I think that it is actually pretty amazing that they had the foresight to put the expansion pack adapter on the bottom of the unit. It would have seemed like such a technological leap to most of us if we would have been able to use them. Kind of like playing online in the 80s

@CurlyFromTheSwirly Год назад

Seems more like they were trying to keep it a secret by putting it on the bottom.

@bricaaron3978 Год назад

@@CurlyFromTheSwirly *"Seems more like they were trying to keep it a secret by putting it on the bottom."* Unfortunately Sherlock Holmes turned it upside-down and discovered it.

@falondonahue8457 2 года назад

Nostalgia Nerd is what happens if The Nerd from A.V.G.N. and Nostalgia Critic had a baby.

@FairytalesFated 4 года назад

I used to hide my cigarettes in there as a kid... Parents never found them

@cheetodog6593 3 года назад

I'm sorry what

@FairytalesFated 3 года назад

@@cheetodog6593 yeah it was just long enough to hide a couple smokes

@jubjub8028 3 года назад

My older brother hid his weed their. I hid my cig stash in the battery port of my cassette tape boom box.

@retrobois2280 3 года назад

@@jubjub8028 imagine a police dog tracking a nes

@RudysFundamental 3 года назад

@@FairytalesFated YOU ARE JUST A SPOILED PERSON

@MasterMayhem78 4 года назад

Why do I all of a sudden want to watch The Neverending Story?

@Abigart69 4 года назад

Lol

@pgrobban 4 года назад

Recognized the song too!

@crnkmnky 4 года назад

I really want to know who composes the music here, and where I can get more. _Hop on yer luck dragons, kids!_

@pgrobban 4 года назад

@@crnkmnky Giorgio Moroder composed the theme song of the movie

@crnkmnky 4 года назад

@@pgrobban I don't think that was the real Moroder music though. 🎶

@ayenice3484 4 года назад

I use to hide my money , Mega Man, Mike Tysons Punch Out, Bubble Bobble and Metal Gear codes in that square unknown

@Splurr Год назад

7:07 i love the soundtrack from "The Neverending Story". A great movie from the 80´s. Emojis about the movie: 🎼🎹🎬⚔📖🏅🏇🐌🦇🐢⛅🐶🐉🐺🏰💓👸🎼

@darkinertia2 4 года назад

its just old systems used to have weed stash spots like the ps2

@bsharpmajorscale 4 года назад

The Atari 5200 has HUGE stash spots. :P

@syntaxerror9994 4 года назад

@@bsharpmajorscale that was for all that 80s cocaine

@darnellhagood1052 4 года назад

@bsharpmajorscale AVGN already used it to store his beer 😂😂😂

@HIDHIFDB 4 года назад

Man of culture. that hdd space can hide a lot of things

@dontneedtoknow5836 4 года назад

The amount of heat that was produced lead to many inspections for such.

@tragic4life 3 года назад

Love the 80’s soundtrack in this video.

@metal--babble346 6 месяцев назад

I plugged my TV into that secret NES port, and was kidnapped by Aliens to help them fight an intergalactic space war.

@Daniel-Moss 4 года назад

To stop confusion that port was made for a Japan disc storage upgrade otherwise known as the N64DD when showed to the US we’ve laughed at it and denied it so they kept it in Nintendo’s consoles in Japan you can also look up n64-DD videos and you’ll see plenty results

@rocketkids4 4 года назад

TLDW there is an expansion slot and the only peripheral was a modem that was not manufactured at a large scale in the United States of America. edited from TLDR to TLDW Edit 2 I have made this comment longer because the scope of the production of the nes modem was unclear

@infinidominion 4 года назад

TLDW

@ihateallofu8233 4 года назад

@@infinidominion Captain Pedantic.

@ActionGamerAaron 4 года назад

"Caught on"? That would imply it did not sell well. It didn't even get licensing or start manufacturing.

@rocketkids4 4 года назад

A Gamer Aaron very well I will edit this comment again

@Ron.J23 4 года назад

This is crazy because I was asking myself what that was for only 2 days ago. Never looked it up and then this shows up on my feed. Thanks for the answer! 👍🏿

@bufordmaddogtannen5164 4 года назад

CIA: You are welcome Ron..

@lutello3012 4 года назад

What's he saying? I'm distracted by the NeverEnding Story ripoff!

@SabretoothBarnacle 4 года назад

I was going to write pretty much the same thing..

@WhatTheHellMang 4 года назад

Spot on!

@QunMang 4 года назад

Just what I was thinking too.

@SirBuffton 4 года назад

The music around 7 minutes? My brain was doing flips trying to work it out! Came to the comments to see if anyone else had asked.....

@surfteejay 4 года назад

Same here... The video became even more nostalgic by that moment.

@DiscoDashco 6 месяцев назад

Dude, what a great video! Excellent presentation on something I always wondered about. That cover made a GREAT hiding spot back in the day.

@DysoniaMultiverseNews 3 месяца назад

In addition to the modem, there was an idea for the Floppy Disk Drive system and such to plug into that port. Basically, it would add a version of the keyboard used in Famicom as well as modem, and as well as disk drive. This would be a concept not too unlike the Commodore disk drive which allows daisy chaining over a serial bus. Commodore's serial bus based disk drive were essentially computers with one or more disks drives on a serial based networking port based on the IEEE-488 port which was a parallel networking port. Each peripheral essentially had to have a computer board. Even Commodore's printers had little CPUs, ROM, and RAM as well as an I/O chip and a microcontroller for controlling the printer... while the floppy drives had a floppy disk controller. Each such device would have an ID#. Almost akin to the later ethernet connected devices like your ethernet connected printers. Same thing could be for mass storage devices so you access them via a more fancier ID numbering system (local area network IP address). So in theory, there can be various kinds of stuff Nintendo could have came up with. Including even a hard drive. If the PET could in 1977. They could have implemented something that could be stacked or something. Even a LASERDISC based optical disk.

@davidokeif8304 4 года назад

Interesting, I always wondered what the intent was for the hidden area, had no idea that there was a port hidden under the breakable plastic cover.

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

we knew it was an expansion port, but we never needed any peripherals for it anyway. Why is the Video so long, and why he needs brillant ?

@Milesyamiga 4 года назад

Beverage’s law of headline states - any headline that ends in a question mark, the answer is always no.

@tonythedonluciano 4 года назад

Any other Nerds in here recognize the "Never Ending Story" beat that played in the background music?? 🤔😎

@UpIrons777 4 года назад

I noticed it too. Even in a 8-Bit keyboard mode, it still sounds amazing.

@Xetheon 3 года назад

The NES

@timshel11 4 года назад

I got this.The red circles are used by youtube content creators to emphasize parts of the image on screen, commonly in the image "thumbnail" they feel are important, or otherwise would like to call attention to. They can even be different colors, like blue or black, or even pink! Thanks for asking!

@fireheartgames 4 года назад

I'm subscribing because I love the 80's sounding tracks you use in your video here. Great music goes a long way when making a video like this one.

@NormanReaddis 3 года назад

"to gambling being conducted on a device marketed for children" EA is taking notes on this statement

@flygonbreloom 4 года назад

Is that The Mysterious Cities of Gold music partway through the video?...

@zaori2785 4 года назад

The question is, what is the Switch capable of, if Nintendo designed it also in foresight?

@jonathansoko5368 3 года назад

Bluetooth support.... That was there all along but they activated ,4 years later cuz nintendo

@Voyajer. 2 года назад

They still have yet to enable usb 3.0 support on the dock.

@smittyvanjagermanjenson182 3 года назад

It's a shame most of the Nintendo expansion stuff didn't gain traction! The only one I recall that was that GameCube Gameboy player. The Nintendo 64s expansion would've been killer, considering it was a disk reader with online play functionality. Japan was thinking of things so far ahead, that average consumers at the time couldn't even process the information lol

@Domingo95x 3 года назад

its for hiding weed.

@Shyguygameing 2 месяца назад

💀

@VideoBurrito 2 месяца назад

Underrated comment☠️

@ericsanchez3353 2 дня назад

The OG PS2 really raised the bar on video game weed hiding capabilities

@cartoonraccoon2078 Год назад

That finally explains why their theme song had that line: "Visionaries! Jam em into your expansion ports!"

@TonyBMan 4 года назад

Aaaaaaaaand nowadays we've come full circle, with micro transactions and gambling in games unfortunately becoming the norm, and the law is ONCE AGAIN interceding.

@peterbense5650 4 года назад

"easy to circumnavigate" - I think the word should have been 'circumvent'. Circumnavigation means traveling [sailing] around the world...

@peterbense5650 4 года назад

@@CerealKiller I see that now. Maybe this is regional usage.

@lkchild 4 года назад

Circumnavigate relates to navigation, as in geographical context. Circumvent is the word he was looking for. It was probably just a mixup, it happens to everyone.

@peterbense5650 4 года назад

@@lkchild I went and looked this up, evidently this might be dialectal. He's justified in his choice of language, for some reason it jumped out to me.

@trajectoryunown 4 года назад

I've personally heard circumnavigate used in the same context. Circumvent is generally used to describe altering something to cause it to avoid something else while circumnavigate is used to describe getting around something. ie. A thief might circumnavigate security systems by maneuvering through blind spots, or they could circumvent them by cutting power and distracting guards. Not saying it's right, that's just how I've always heard it in popular usage. Aside from it's niche, and seemingly intended, usage in geography, this is not exactly a common word.

@louisjbang4255 3 года назад

They were planing on adding peripherial like the floppy disc drive and modem the Famicom. In Japan they sold discs that you could buy a game and then later bring back and pay to have the game replaced by buying another game

@8ending8ranches Год назад

I would love to see someone make an independent expansion for new today. Idc what it is but anything to make use of this port would be cool.

@DjTinnio 3 года назад

11:57 Song slaps. What is its name ? Cool video. I was on Sega Master System 2 back in the days :-p . It is still functioning.

@RetrogamerTim 4 года назад

It's an expansion port. Saved you 12 minutes. You're welcome.

@LuckyBuckshot 3 года назад

Thank you!!!

@operationbs7610 3 года назад

Yeah this is nothing special what a waste of time..

@themanfromroomfive9445 3 года назад

I can't beleive this needed a whole 12 minute video, I knew what it was from the title and thumbnail, I've known what it was since shortly after discovering it and calling the Nintendo hotline in 1990 and asking them what it was lol Edit: not that in understood what it was back then, but I knew what it was

@FREEDOM_OR_DEATH_ 3 года назад

Thanks but no thanks. I need a little foreplay.

@Sinn0100 3 года назад

I'm sorry, it was pretty obvious that this was an expansion port. I thought everyone knew this by now. I figured this out when I was a kid and the Nes was a current console. If you're watching this video for any other reason than why it was created (not what it is) that's on you. Most of us growing up at the time thought it was for a planned but never released Nintendo Disk System. They did plan on releasing one until bank switching was discovered making the Famicom Disk System obsolete. Addendum- Yes, some kids stupidly believed you could insert a Master System cart inside the expansion slot. Gaming mags of the day made endless comparisons between the three 8-bit consoles all the time. Anyone with the ability to read a magazine could tell you the system specs of the Master System dwarfed the Nes in all but sound making the idea of compatibility a foolish proposal.

@raycearcher5794 4 года назад

I'd always assumed this port was also used to load from multiple carts for those Sears demo kiosks, but it turns out that was a whole bespoke console series, the M-8/M-82.

@jasonwright2665 3 года назад

I grew up with an NES, let me tell you, kids have it easy in video games nowadays. Some of those old NES games were hard as hell and we didn't get save points and infinite lives. We got 12 stages of pure bullet hell and 3 lives, lose all of those lives and you had to start over again FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME.

@ericblair4921 2 года назад

Love the never ending story music in the background

@somerandomnon9161 4 года назад

6:28 Michigan looks awful!

@AnonymousFreakYT 4 года назад

Always! Oh, you meant the map.

@CygnusTM 4 года назад

I think a lot of map makers are confounded by the Great Lakes.

@sabinespeed4146 4 года назад

They did it! The bastards! They drained the lakes! DAMN YOU!

@MrJohannVegas 4 года назад

That's where the international border across the Great Lakes goes, and it's also visible in the shapes of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Some USGS shapefiles (map data) of the US includes this in the shape of the states, and software doesn't know any better, so Michigan looks really weird. (Doubly so at the county level in these maps.)

@somerandomnon9161 4 года назад

@@MrJohannVegas thanks, I didn't know that.

@rrbee 4 года назад

6:23 WTF happened to Michigan?!?

@tch0rt579 4 года назад

I was thinking the same thing. They did Michigan wrong.

@hdestotallyunoriginalgamin3555 4 года назад

Fascinating stuff, as ever.

@ThunderFist1978 5 месяцев назад

Color Dreams was going to release a Hellraiser game that would have made use of that port, and one of the big reasons it wasn’t released was that the fact that they would have had to price it at $100, which no one would have paid back then.

@InfectiousGroovePodcast Год назад

I remember being fascinated by that port as a kid. I had absolutely convinced myself there was a function I just hadn't figured out or heard of yet.

@JMFSpike Год назад

I'm pretty sure it was going to be used for the Famicom Disk System add-on, which Nintendo initially planned to release in North America. They would have had to redesign the FDS though, as the NES was obviously completely different then the Famicom.