17th January 2005, 3:06 PM
The NES really doesn't look like an Atari to me. The Famicom didn't really look like one either aside from sharing the top loading design.
<img src="http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/odd/fc/fami-3.jpg">
Though to be honest the Famicom DID look a lot more like a toy than the NES did. Maybe they redesigned it purely for that reason? Honestly the alternate color scheme and shape changing were never a problem to me so much as the spring loading.
Oh, speaking of spring loading, I sure hope the spring loading mechanism on the DS is designed to last as long as any other component on that system. It seems sturdy enough anyway. More than that, unlike the NES, I think the pin contacts are MUCH tighter on the DS than on the NES, and pin contact was the main problem anyway (not so much spring wear and tear, at least on mine).
<img src="http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/odd/fc/fami-3.jpg">
Though to be honest the Famicom DID look a lot more like a toy than the NES did. Maybe they redesigned it purely for that reason? Honestly the alternate color scheme and shape changing were never a problem to me so much as the spring loading.
Oh, speaking of spring loading, I sure hope the spring loading mechanism on the DS is designed to last as long as any other component on that system. It seems sturdy enough anyway. More than that, unlike the NES, I think the pin contacts are MUCH tighter on the DS than on the NES, and pin contact was the main problem anyway (not so much spring wear and tear, at least on mine).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)