No boomboxes today but I did find this :-)

[Northerner]

Did my usual car boot sale and there was absolutely nothing boombox related

However, as you might know from my boom room pics I dabble in a bit of vintage gaming too. Found an original Nintendo NES from 1985 with all the right cables, power supply and a couple of games. It's had a strip down, bath and service and its super clean and fully working.

I've been playing a bit of Donkey Kong and Super Mario this aft....awesome

 

[superlew]

A clean NES always takes me back.
My cousins and I used to set up the 13" Sony Trinitron on our grandparents front porch with the NES and play Bionic Commando and Rush N' Attack 'til the neighbors complained about all the noise at night. Those were the days...
Great find!

 

[Northerner]

Yeh I've been after a NES for ages and its great to get a nice one....needless to say it wasn't that clean to start with, but a proper casing bath like I do with boxes, then a buff with some plastic polish and it's like new.

Lovin Super Mario, on a real nostalgia trip with it lol It's still addictive

 

[BoomboxLover48]

My kids have all these gadgets and they jump from one unit to another. I ask them why not stay with XBOX and sony playstation they say some old games are so much fun to play on these units.

I never held those game controllers once in my life. I am from the old generation who played board games (snake and ladder) , carroms to begin with.

 

[blu_fuz]

That looks really clean, so many are yellowed out and destroyed.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

That looks really clean, so many are yellowed out and destroyed.

I have been looking for one of these too, but usually they are just pounded! I hope to add that to the collection one day!

 

[Northerner]

Yeh no yellowing on this one, not bad for a 29 year old console. It was pretty dirty on the top but a good soak and scrub sorted that

Old skool Mario rocks

 

[Terry]

Oh that takes me back...... all the way to 2008, when I sold my NES, Super NES, Atari Lynx, Lynx II, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, and all 400 or so games and accessories, including 2 x TV attachments for Game Gear.


I needed some money for the house deposit. A teenage girl bought the lot for $3000. I heard she later sold it all off for her house deposit.

 

[im_alan_partridge]

Great find Si, I remember playing Tetris on one of these for hours years ago

 

[Northerner]

Great find Si, I remember playing Tetris on one of these for hours years ago

Aye, you can get emulators and apps for the iPhone etc to play the same games but it just ain't the same as playing them on a proper old skool console...I suppose it's the same as using an old boombox rather than a modern egg

 

[im_alan_partridge]

Hey Simon, that's an interesting table btw. Why does it holes in it, is it made out of a cable drum?

 

[Beosystem10]

Yeh no yellowing on this one, not bad for a 29 year old console. It was pretty dirty on the top but a good soak and scrub sorted that

Old skool Mario rocks

The dirt probably saved the plastics from turning too yellow. I have a Grundig Satellit ('kin massive multiband radio with a huge oval woofer and genuine fake wood cabinet finish) that was given to me by a mate who sometimes does a bit of development work, it was caked with kitchen fats but when I'd finished cleaning it carefully with a spoonful of Daz diluted in warm water the graining and chromework beneath was perfect. It's the ones that people clean as though their life depends on it that suffer the worst with yellowing.

Hey Simon, that's an interesting table btw. Why does it holes in it, is it made out of a cable drum?

Either this or they have the world's biggest woodworm down there in that Yorkshire.

 

[Northerner]

Hey Simon, that's an interesting table btw. Why does it holes in it, is it made out of a cable drum?

Yep you guessed it...stripped and waxed...cost me nowt as it 'accidentally' rolled away from a building site lol

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

I know you can play these games on other systems but it doesn't compare to playing on the real deal

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[Northerner]

I know you can play these games on other systems but it doesn't compare to playing on the real deal

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Yep

 

[MarioMania]

I still have my NES from 1991