{"id":703,"date":"2010-10-15T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T17:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2010-10-15T14:30:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T19:30:42","slug":"inside-the-nintendo-entertainment-system-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/703\/inside-the-nintendo-entertainment-system-25th-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Nintendo Entertainment System (25th Anniversary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/207891\/inside_the_nintendo_entertainment_system.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcworld\/inside_nes_small.jpg\" alt=\"Inside the Nintendo Entertainment System - Workbench Teardown on PC World\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In October 1985, Nintendo released the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the United States.  25 years later, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/207891\/inside_the_nintendo_entertainment_system.html\" target=\"_blank\">took one apart<\/a> for the wood-grained glory that is my &#8220;workbench series&#8221; of tech autopsies (this is my 11th entry).  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/207891\/inside_the_nintendo_entertainment_system.html\" target=\"_blank\">up now on PC World.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2008, I dismantled the NES&#8217;s Japanese counterpart, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/148391\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Famicom<\/a> (the NES&#8217;s Japanese counterpart), if you&#8217;re curious to see that.  There&#8217;s a full list of my workbench teardowns below.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy it.  When you&#8217;re done, feel free to share your fondest NES memories in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Here are my previous workbench teardowns: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/191766\/inside_the_atari_1040stf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Atari 1040STf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/181421\/inside_the_atari_800.html\" target=\"_blank\">Atari 800<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/200083\/inside_the_amiga_1000.html\" target=\"_blank\">Commodore Amiga 1000<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/152528\/inside_the_commodore_64.html\" target=\"_blank\">Commodore 64<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/162588\/gadget_autopsy_the_nintendo_game_boy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Game Boy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/148391\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Famicom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/143520-2\/anatomy_of_an_icon_inside_the_apple_iic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apple IIc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/147939\/inside_the_worlds_greatest_keyboard.html\" target=\"_blank\">IBM Model M Keyboard<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/146496\/inside_a_classic_the_trs80_model_100.html\" target=\"_blank\">TRS-80 Model 100<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/09\/20\/inside-the-macintosh-portable\/\" target=\"_blank\">Macintosh Portable<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 1985, Nintendo released the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the United States. 25 years later, I took one apart for the wood-grained glory that is my &#8220;workbench series&#8221; of tech autopsies (this is my 11th entry). It&#8217;s up now on PC World.com. Back in 2008, I dismantled the NES&#8217;s Japanese counterpart, the Nintendo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}