Been wanting a NES for a minute. Decided on buying myself a toploading unit for my 40th birthday this year. The American NES toploaders were too pricey, but the Famicom AV was much more affordable and with the bonus of AV instead of RF only like the US model. Just by coincidence I bought Mario Bros as my first Famicom game since that was the cheapest, best quality game I could afford and it just seemed right to make it the first Famicom game I owned. But after I purchased it it dawned on me that it was delightfully appropriate to buy Mario Bros on it's 40th anniversary as my 40th birthday present this year :D
Looking forward to grabbing an Everdrive when I have the cash and really getting down and dirty with it. I have a whole bunch of homebrew and hacks I'm itching to play.
Happy birthday from a fellow Famicom AV owner born in 85! I am playing it on my hd TV at the moment with a RAD2X RetroTink HDMI cable, but I also have a CRT I rescued from the trash ๐
Sweet! Thank you, happy B-day (or soon to be) to you too! The CRT is the icing on the cake, I love real scanlines in action. Sadly I didn't pay attention to the listing close enough and purchased the console only so I don't have the dogbone controller (was really looking forward to it too). I had to grab a generic NES one for now. Eventually I'll be grabbing the dogbone when I can though.