iFixit Tears Down Nintendo Famicon, Atari 2600, More
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All right, so they haven’t gotten their hands on one of the new Apple iPod touches, but that’s not going to stop the folks at iFixit. In fact, the site is eschewing its normal inclination to embrace the latest shiny new gear, instead reaching back in time for deconstructional fodder.
The site has declared this its vintage game console teardown week. The company is moving chronologically through some of the earliest systems, and no old school console manufacturer is safe.
“We wanted to showcase the roots of today’s game consoles by exploring the game console technology of the 1970s and 80s,” iFixit explains. “So we got our hands on some staples of the industry–dating all the way back to 1975–and took them apart in true iFixit fashion.”
On Monday the site ripped into 1975’s Magnavox Odyssey 100. On Tuesday it broke into a vintage 1977 RCA Studio II. Yesterday the target was the game-changing Atari 2600. today it’s a Nintendo Famicon from 1983, the system that would create a revolution in the U.S. two years later, when it was re-branded the NES.
All of the requisite close-ups are included, with detailed breakdowns of all of the pieces. It’s enough to make you nostalgic for a console you couldn’t buy here in the States.
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