A December 1989 mini-catalog for Service Merchandise caught my attention immediately because it featured a pair of Nelsonic Game Watches licensed by Nintendo. Many of them were padded with old newspaper from eastern Tennessee, which is where my grandmother lived until she died in 1992.Īmong the usual black-ink-on-yellowing-paper fare, I found a handful of gloriously full-color advertisement circulars. The dishes had been sitting in my parents’ attic untouched for two decades. Last month, my mother and I searched through boxes and boxes of my grandmother’s old dishes to see what might be of use to me now. That got me thinking about other nerdy watches of yore, and I remembered something I recently found in my mom’s attic. Why not put LZDN1WBF and LSMN1WBF on your Xmas wishlist?Īs you probably know, Apple recently introduced the Apple Watch. Posted in Gaming History, NES / Famicom, Regular Features, Retro Scan of the Week, Retrogaming | 9 Comments » So take dates you see on the Internet with a grain of salt unless they are coupled with a strong source (or better yet, collection of sources) behind them.ĭiscussion Topic of the Week: In your opinion, what’s the best Zapper game for the NES?

That means the Action Set was available as early as April 1988. Seeking to clarify this, I just did a newspaper archive search and found mention of the “Just Arrived” NES Action set in the Apedition of the Ukiah Daily Journal (from Ukiah, CA, of all places). That is definitely not true, because my brother first got an Action Set for his birthday in June 1988.

NES Action Set Release Dateīy the way, I’ve seen some sources say that the NES Action set, which first debuted the combo SMB/Duck Hunt cartridge, saw its first US release in November 1988. My dad was first in our family to try to shoot the canine as he giggled at our Duck Hunting failure. Much fun can be had from doing that, of course - although I spent many hours in my youth cursing the laughing dog. Duck Hunt instruction manual (you can see both pages if you click on the image above - the small two dots in the middle are holes for a staple) illustrate the proper way to plug the Zapper light gun into your “Nintendo Entertainment System Control Deck.” These two pages from the US Super Mario Bros.

I love retro line art diagrams this one has to be one of the best.

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