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JonMatrix t1_je3r8xv wrote

Is that some kind of microphone on the ground there? What game was that for?

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Don_T_Blink t1_je3szsi wrote

Did you guys watch Captain N, the game master?

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Obiwantoblowme t1_je3t1t7 wrote

Man I miss the good ole days, NES for the win!! Sweet pic

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AeronMelon t1_je3txqx wrote

That look of shock really completes the picture.

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Ozymandias0007 t1_je3vqlz wrote

The kid not playing seems more invested in the game than the two playing.

Does anyone remember Intellivision?

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45footgiraffe t1_je3xt5n wrote

Is it just me, or did everyone have the same couch in the late 80's/early 90's?

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alterator t1_je3z9i6 wrote

Was this the beginning of a life long adventure of console gaming? NES was the gateway drug to a lot of us.

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DuncanAndFriends t1_je41g7h wrote

kids today have no idea how exciting it was to go from having to play outside to being allowed to play a nintendo. It had to be earned.

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adampsyreal t1_je41t3y wrote

Awesome! Do y'all remember what you played?

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callingFives t1_je44n4u wrote

I know goddamned well I'm not the only one who had that same exact couch in someone's house

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merijuanaohana t1_je45gbg wrote

Love it. Someone did a great job capturing that moment. Needs to be an album cover.

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Cash907 t1_je476pq wrote

I feel this photo. We had that couch too except ours was orange and brown instead of black and brown. Ugh. One day, man. Just let me relive one day from back then.

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ddwdj t1_je477qt wrote

When you're the next contestant on "The Price Is Right"...

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jim_deneke t1_je4hude wrote

Sitting on the floor to play games just feels so good

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PrestigiousAvocado21 t1_je4le1m wrote

Replying to 45footgiraffe (#2,440,517)

Well in fairness there was the other 80s couch that had what I suppose you could call a tacky French Renaissance inspired design (I know I’ve seen it pop up on the sub before, so everyone here has seen it at one point) but the color scheme was exactly the same. So to whoever manufactured these couches, thanks for giving us choices!

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sincethenes t1_je4tx91 wrote

Everyone I knew had their NES on the floor. I wonder, does anyone still do that, or have we all collectively agreed that consoles need to be placed on something now?

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everydaysgolden t1_je4xywl wrote

Replying to callingFives (#2,441,588)

My grandparents had that couch and I had to sleep on it when we visited them...theirs was NOT a pullout, they just put sheets down on the couch to make a bed for me. Even with the sheets that upholstery fabric was scratchy as hell.

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geekphreak t1_je52a3y wrote

Vibes, man. Vibes. Remember Nintendo Power magazine?

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tidytibs t1_je58uq3 wrote

THIS is the pinnacle of gaming at that time and these kids are enjoying the hell out of it!

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JesseJ42697 t1_je58xyz wrote

Love this so much. The couch makes it that much better. Miss the 80s so much.

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bthayes28 t1_je5gy4x wrote

NES is the best Christmas gift I ever received. It was the only gift I was allowed to open on Christmas Eve, and I stayed up all night playing Super Mario Bros.

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frenchtoastwizard t1_je5jra0 wrote

Further proof that the idea that the 80s were a neon wonderland is manufactured. Most of us were living with furniture like this!

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drekwithoutpolitics t1_je5ko7y wrote

Replying to sincethenes (#2,445,971)

I want to say that consoles with discs were where I started thinking that I shouldn’t put them on the floor… but I still might have until the PS2, I can’t remember exactly.

For me it was a combination of: me getting older (and having something to put a console in/on), consoles existing that took up less space (the PS2 could be vertical, for example), optical drives potentially being more sensitive to dust, and the consoles having more fans.

There’s more factors to it than I expected when I started writing this, haha. That generation of NES was like a tank for me too, the only thing that ever had problems were the contacts to connect to the cartridge. Everything else worked like a charm until I finally had to get rid of the thing.

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sports_and_wine t1_je658xq wrote

I always had to play NES at my friend’s house until we finally got Super NES for Hanukkah in 1993. My sister and I immediately fought over who got to go first. Those were the days!

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ParadigmCG t1_je6moa1 wrote

What did the little dude in the middle just witness

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Massive-Lime7193 t1_je6udwj wrote

Replying to DuncanAndFriends (#2,441,116)

Lol I remember those days. Once we wised you though we could pretty much rotate friends houses throughout the day so we wouldn’t have to stop playing. Sega at jimmys house, snes at frankies, PlayStation 1 at Jordan’s (but that was his older brothers so we had to be very careful ) lmao

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MrCrash t1_je70pmd wrote

Kid on the left is making that jump in world 4-1 of Mario Bros, and little dude in the middle is like "wha! I always died there!"

Adorable.

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_MissionControlled_ t1_je74mlf wrote

Got my first NES Christmas `89. The memories of playing Zelda with my father.

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Averen t1_je7a6rh wrote

Mind blowingly awesome

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n0fqy t1_je80cz4 wrote

Love the look on the dude in the middle. 😀

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DuncanAndFriends t1_jeev4q8 wrote

Replying to Massive-Lime7193 (#2,460,687)

Lol this. Had a friend with a 3do, i had the sega with mk2, another had 32x with doom, another had snes, then there was the pc gamer because none of us had pcs that could play good games. Then later we had that 1 friend with the n64 and 4 controllers! Goldeneye after school

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