The TRUTH About the Sharp Nintendo Television! (19SV111) | Nintendrew 

There is no Pepe Sharpia!

I'd watch an entire series dedicated to Drew diving into gaming myths and mysteries

My man just straight up went to Nintendo's headquarters to ask about an obscure TV set from the late 80s

Nintendo employee: “Hey Doug! That guy is yelling at us in the parking lot again!”

Awesome video my man

I like to think that Nintendrew flew all the way to Redmond, Washington just to yell at the building and then fly back home.

Fiancée? Congratulations Drew!

I remember seeing a limited edition TV with a Sega Dreamcast built in kinda like this NES!

Drew literally went to Nintendo HQ for a 6 second bit what a ledgend

We need more 'Conspiracy Theory' Nintendrew

It's cool to see a dude--who wasn't even alive until almost a decade after the NES was released--being so passionate about the system. Cheers, man!

Eating lunch while hearing Drew talk about a TV with a built-in NES is indeed blissful. Great video as always!

It reminds me of how Sony made a TV with a built-in PS2 even though the PS3 had been out for a few years by then already.

Wait, Drew is off the market?! Well what the heck am I subbed for? Interesting teardowns of rare televisions?! Well I suppose I can stick around for that.

I remember seeing one of these in my uncle's attic. Too bad his house burned down.

Interesting analysis on the “SV” code designation. I would have just guessed it meant Sharp Videogame. A lot of Japanese companies do product codes like this though. Video games, consumer electronics, musical instruments, even car engines.

I saw one on display in a store as a kid. As I watched this video, I was recalling that memory and trying to remember which store. Sorted it out in my mind as being K-Mart just a few moments before you got to your findings of all the purchases you know of coming from K-Mart.

I remember the gaming historian talking about this.

Our family had one for christmas’89, it was purchased from Sears @21st and yale tulsa, oklahoma for 459$. Ultimately, we decided to return it and buy a stand alone tv and nintendo for less.

The research done in this video clarifies the entire fact that this television exists. It all makes sense from a business standpoint to why it was produced and sold as it was!

"Hey, do you guys know anything about the Sharp game Television?" Nintendo worker: Let's go splatoon on this foo' 😂😂😂

That's some impressive investigative journalism. Well done.

My neighbor and family friend had one of these when I was a kid. I'm 99% certain she got it from a rent to own store. This was in SW Washington in the early 90s. I wish I could've gottn my handse on it. It was complete with controllers and the elusive remote as well. Neat Nintendo history, cool video.

6:39 That was priceless. Keep it up Nintendrew.

I’m interested in the process of 3d printing the plastic feet

I’ve watched a LOT of historical video game mini documentaries. This one is fantastic. I have heard of this thing for years but learned a ton. Well done.

The shot in front of Nintendo HQ killed me. Thanks for the laughs as always!

I experienced this 2 times in my life. The one I bought and the 10 that were in a storage room at a hotel I worked at. I bought 1 (his money not mine) for a friend's van conversion we were working on in 90ish. Knowing my habits then it would make sense that it was only sold at Kmart. Through the 90's I only purchased electronics from 3 sources. 1 Fry's 2 Kmart 3 Sears. Sears was rare because Kmart was much closer and less hassle. I don't believe Fry's (Fountain Valley) was even open at that point so it was most likely Kmart. I can confirm that they were used in Hotels. Whether it was a separate model I don't know. A hotel I worked at in the mid-90's had several. They had a few rooms they labeled "family" rooms that had them. There were no games in room but you could use your own cartridges or rent from the front desk. By the time I started there in 95 only 1 was left in a room and the other 10 or so were collecting dust in a storage room.

You make great content! Keep it up Nintendrew!👏👏

This was so much fun to watch, thank you for the awesome video. I picked my Sharp NES TV up a couple years ago at a garage sale for $50. The guy I bought it from said that his dad used to sell them at the Rent-To-Own store in Piqua, OH. The unit I bought was the display model that people could demo when they came in the store.

Huge points for digging through digitized newspapers, it's hard on a good day to find some simple facts you need, let alone something as heavily buried as this!

Nintendrew you have some of the highest quality videos on RU-vid

Wonderful video! I love hearing more about this TV. It's very nostalgic to me as my sister used to have one when I was a kid. She was much older than me and didn't live with me. I would go over to her house and play that Sharp NES TV all the time! I remember specifically playing Contra and Super Mario Bros 3 on it. It's a shame she doesn't have it any more, but at least I have the memories of playing on it!

I remember QVC the home shopping channel was selling this TV too. They had Video Power season 2 host Terry Lee Torok on it. He was showing off the TV and some other stuff. The controllers that came with the TV didn't have the official gray-black scheme for the layout. It had a weird 90's look.

Holy crap, that was the best 20 minute adventure I’ve ever been on - INCREDIBLE research my dude!

This is without a doubt one of the best and most intriguing videos I’ve ever seen of yours. Excellent job!

That would've been a total badass if the sharp nintendo tv also has AV inputs so that way I can hook it up my VCR/DVD player and watch movies with it.

Thanks for the videogame history deep dive. Great video! Love the bits throughout

Oh man, I thought you were about to go full Charlie for a second there! Great video! Your production value has continued to increase and so has the overall quality of your videos too! I feel like you're continuing to develop and hone your style more and more with each new release, and It's been great to see you grow.

Fantastic video! I was kinda hoping to hear a distant "no!" From the Nintendo building but the "post credits" shout session made up for that

An excellent video all around. Love the production for conspiracy theory scene, walking up to Nintendo, the sign puppetry between Sears and Kmart, this video had it all and more!

Detective Drew is the most entretaining thing Ive seen this week, I need M O R E

This was great and very informative, also the editing in this video was superb!

I remember these at our K-Mart for a short time as a kid. They had one set up on an endcap, plugged in, and the Platoon game cartridge was in it on demo mode. No controller, so it just had that endless loop of music playing on the title screen and 8-bit cinematic sequence. Almost two decades later I found one at a thrift shop with all four feet but no front covers or controllers. The picture was better than other TVs I remember, even for OTA broadcasts - this SV vestigial model nomenclature theory makes me wonder if they had a different picture tube ready to show off the SVHS image before they redesigned it to have a control deck built in...

Just found you this morning. I find your presentations to be really nice, informative, fun and professional. I'm a huge Castlevania fan. I love Super Castlevania and I still believe the SNES is the best ever produced home console. I wonder if you might ever do a show(s) about Konami, Nintendo and of course, Castlevania as the glue between these juggernauts? I've been waiting for years to get a true successor to Super Castlevania. Lot of awesome titles since, but none of them scratch that itch for me. Everybody blathers on about SOTN. It was a very good game. For me it was just to removed from being a Belmont and though the music was good, not as good as the SNES version-that was a masterpiece of a game soundtrack. Thanks again for the awesome content Drew and keep'em coming!

Didn’t expect to enjoy this video as much as I did! Well done, well done indeed!

When I was 5 (back in 1992 ish?), my brother and I were hospitalized for flu and sickness. After a few days, the hospital had one of these on a cart with wheels. Being 5, my mind blown because it was the first... and for a long time only one I saw.

Back in the time frame when this TV was sold, there was an Oregon based company, called Fred Meyer, they opened a store in, Chico Ca, which lasted something like a year, as it was not a good fit for the area, but I remember as a kid, going there with my family and they did have one of these TVs setup, as I remember spending time playing games on it, so it would be safe to assume that, Fred Meyer, sold these TVs back then, or at least was using one as a demo kiosk for some of the newer games.

Outstandingly well researched video. Great job.

Always impressed with the detail in your videos

My God, the amount of research that went into this. Super well done!

I ended up here because one of these ended up at a local Habitat ReStore. And I was was like what the heck is that. Thanks for all your hard work in finding the info on this. The one at the store was from November 1989 and sold for $650.

WOW, that brings back memories... got mine in June of 1990. I was 9.

Dude I'd never even heard of this thing and I was on the edge of my seat the whole video. This is GREAT!

Super interesting to hear about. Great work!

Oh my God I lost it when you started playing Crisis on there xD might be my favorite video I've seen from you thus far

Excellent video DetectiveDrew. Really enjoyed that, alot of work put into that 👍

Great video, genuinely hope you do more deep dive stuff like this!

Nice video. Got a lot more knowledge about the TV

I have never heard of this. Great video!

You dug deep on this! Good job!

That was super entertaining and informative. I knew as soon as I saw it, there was only one person (besides myself, but couldn’t swing the money for it) that I could think of that would return it to it’s former glory, and that was Nintendrew! Great work on the video!

I love this new kind of content. Hope we get to see more of this sort of thing in future. Thanks dude great video!

Great episode! Super fun and informative, thanks Drew!

I have never heard of this before! I had no idea that this was even a thing! This was super interesting. Thank you so much for another amazing video!

Thats a pretty solid thought about what went down. Very cool video!

How ironic, years later KMart is bought by Sears. Now both company are gone

I've actually seen two of these things for sale, at local used game stores by me. They are long gone now, one looked to be in very nice condition (like $800) and the other was in so-so condition ($700). Both were pretty neat though.

This is how old I am, my family owned this TV game combo and we enjoyed countless hours of classic Nintendo on it... It was a big deal to me at the time it still is ,grew up in a poor family so having a video game system of our own especially one so unique made me feel extremely privileged 😊 just a piece of information that might not ever be seen is that we actually got the system from Rent-A-Center, perhaps they had to deal with Sharp. Anyway thank you for bringing back some fantastic memories of spending time with my family

My mom still has hers. She has all the games, controllers and books that came with it! My kids played it when they were young! I need to tell her to get that thing out and clean it up!

Your videos have lots of information that is useful and helpful.

You've always put out great content, but this might be your best video to date man. Loved it

Awesome to get some back story on this TV, my dad bought one from Kmart in the 90s and I still play it to this day! Mine still has all 4 original feet but I'm missing the top door and only have 1 original controller. Thanks for the video!

Random tidbit: Sharp Plaza in Mahwah, NJ no longer exists (this address is on the back of the 19SV111). The street is there but it's now Jaguar Land Rover Way, since that's where Jaguar/Land Rover's North American headquarters (or at least one of them) is located.

Great detective work, Drew! At NOA HQ, I was expecting a line like, hey plumber boy, mustache man, your worst nightmare has arrived!!! BAWHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eeeeeeeey, I knew that TV looked familiar! Glad to see it working so smooth!

This was epic. My thanks to you and your fiancee for ploughing through all of those newspapers.... Your speculation about the Sharp deal sounds very plausible, btw.

Unbelievable video. This is the real RU-vid. Incredible story. Amazing detail. Lively speculation. Magnificently captivating. Thank you so much, Drew!

Interesting that everyone thought there was a second set for so long without there ever being proof.

Had one of those growing up. Still have one the controllers. I wish I could ask my Grandpa where he got it from.

I bought one of these at a garage sale back in 2006. My main TV for playing GameCube. It's collecting dust in my parent's basement. I told them...."NEVER SELL THIS". Not sure what to do with it now, but the NES works when it wants to and the speak is mono, but many memories on this thing

This is awesome on so many levels. Great work!

Great video!

just when I thought I couldn't love the way you presented this more than the Pepe Silvia conspiracy board, you brought out STICK PUPPETS.

Great video and investigation!

Great video, Drew!

This video is crazy bonkers bananas interesting!! Great job!

Been a while since I watched you, forgot how much I loved this channel.

Our boy, Nintendrew is back, nice to have you back dude

Big thanks for all the effort. 👍

I think I mentioned this once before, but a hospital I stayed in for a month in 1991 when I was five had one of these they kept mostly for pediatric patients, which they had very few of. One of my doctors had a brother or brother-in-law (something along those lines) who had owned a video rental store and had sold his NES inventory to make room for Super NES. He had bought one of these TVs to test out games after they had been returned to make sure they weren't damaged and after he sold most of the the NES games off he donated the TV and a handful of cartridges to the hospital. After three days of going crazy with nothing to do, I asked my Dad if he could bring in my NES and the 13" TV I used for it. He tried to get permission from the nurses, but they said something like "We've got a better idea" and an hour later they were wheeling this monstrosity into my room. I played the few games (can't even remember what they were) for a bit but they were all average to poor at best - they were literally what the former owner couldn't sell, after all - and the next day when he came to visit Dad brought some of my own games from home for me to play. It definitely made my stay a lot more tolerable.

Loved the video! There is a different controller model you can get for about $5 that doesn’t have the game button at first glance, but if you take it apart it does have the button on the board and the signal works so you can make your own that works with the NES TV :)

Good video, I do remember this being mentioned and pictured in “the magazines” back when it came out, I think it was in EGM.

This stuff is so fascinating. Great video!

Fantastic video. Love seeing this stuff I'd not have know about otherwise

Great work on the video. Most on depth to date. Glad my little list on NA could help ya out!

Definitely saw one of these at a friends house probably around 1992-3? Had no idea what it was, but that explains why his bin full of nes games was next to it.

I actually own one of these, and it still has all 4 feet on it, only thing broken on it is the door covering the TV controls. It was purchased at an auction back in the mid to late 90s by my parents for around $110

Great video!! Mine has the seal of quality slapped on the side of monitor haha. I did a lot of research myself too and still didn’t know some of these things, super cool!

This is a very sharp research...and congrats on your engagement!