Original October 1985 NES color brochure

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My first videogame system was the ColecoVision system in 1982 and then the Expansion Module #3 ADAM computer in 1983. I have never owned a Nintendo videogame console. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was released on October 18^th in the year 1985 in North America (Japan had the console in July 15^th of 1983). After Coleco stopped production on the ColecoVision/ADAM in January 1985, it made sense to release the Nintendo in October of 1985 in North America. In the late 80’s I briefly played the system at a relative’s house. The NES is a little better when compared to the ColecoVision/ADAM since it has 52 colors instead of only 16 colors with the older ColecoVision, plus the ColecoVision only had 32 sprites and the NES has 64 sprites. The ColecoVision sold 2 million units, however the NES was much more popular and sold 64 million units in Japan with 34 million of those units being in the USA. The NES was discontinued on August 14^th 1995 in North America and September 25^th 2003 in Japan.

 

I would one day like to try Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Junior, Donkey Kong 3, and Popeye on the NES (don’t have a NES but in theory the games might be better than the Coleco ADAM version. The Coleco ADAM versions of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior were the best in North America up until the year 1985).

 

Anyways attached is a October 1985 color brochure on Nintendo’s first videogame system that I picked up in a retail store sometime in the mid to late 80’s.

Nintendo brochure.pdf

Edited August 25, 2017 by HDTV1080P

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Nice. Brings back the memories.

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Someone told me that the NES only had 3 screens for Donkey Kong. If that is true then the ADAM version is better since the ADAM version of Donkey Kong has 4 screens and Donkey Kong Junior on the ADAM is 5 screens.

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Someone told me that the NES only had 3 screens for Donkey Kong. If that is true then the ADAM version is better since the ADAM version of Donkey Kong has 4 screens and Donkey Kong Junior on the ADAM is 5 screens.

I guess, if that's how you define "better."

 

The NES versions look and play better IMO, and are simply more pleasing gameplay experiences to me even without the coveted Pie Factory. The Coleco and ADAM versions feel a little janky by comparison.

 

If you're a big enough Donkey Kong arcade fan, then none of the original console or computer ports of the early-mid '80s will really be satisfactory to you. The ones that look, feel, and play the best are missing a screen (or two). The few that have all the screens are compromised in other ways (ex. no springs in the TI-99/4a version).

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The ADAM versions have all the original arcade intermissions and the game graphics quality is really close to the arcade (Plus didn’t Donkey Kong Junior in the arcade only have 4 screens and Coleco worked with Nintendo to get a new 5^th screen that no one ever saw before?). I guess the ATARI 7800 version is most likely not as good as the NES version. I know when the NES came out in the USA October 18^th 1985 it is a more powerful videogame system then the ColecoVision/ADAM and maybe the graphics are a little better for the screens that it does have. I am sure the programmers could have made Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior with all the screens for the NES if the ROM cartridge was large enough, however maybe certain contracts do not allow for the home version to have all the screens. If the home versions of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior are exactly the same or too close to the quality of the arcade then there would be no reason to play the arcade version anymore. However now in the 21^st Century with no arcades left (or very few in existence), Nintendo should allow home videogame systems and computers to have the full version of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior with all the screens, especially when people are downloading the actual Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior arcade rom images and playing them with a MAME emulator on a Windows PC.

 

Was the NES system the last videogame and computer system that released Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior (Sure there might be homebrew versions released)? On August 23^rd 1991 the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the United States and it was a more advanced 16 bit system. It was discontinued in 1999 in North America and September 25^th 2003 in Japan (It sold 49.10 million worldwide but was not as popular as the original 8 bit NES). I am surprised Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Junior, and Donkey Kong 3 was not made for the Super NES system. Also I guess no one was interested in the original Donkey Kong for the 64 bit video game systems like Nintendo 64, GameCube, and Wii.

Edited August 30, 2017 by HDTV1080P