Posts tagged with Nintendo

On this day back in 1889 Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo in order to manufacture playing cards.121 years later, it has all led to this.

I spent the morning resurrecting old non-working SNES cartdiges that had been donated to the archive. This involved opening them up, applying polish & fixer to the contacts, then re-sealing. I went six-for-six in getting the old cartridges working again!

Yesterday I cracked open one of our Nintendo Entertainment Systems to replace the pin connector which had gone bad. I was successful, so now we have two working NESes (and also an NES clone).

Got a nice box of donations this morning, full of Nintendo stuff: Nintendo 64, with controllers & games, etc.

Here are a few more pictures of items we've had donated to the game archive over the past few weeks.