'8-bit Xmas' breathes new life into your 'Bah! Humbug!' NES

Is there still room in your heart for eight more unassuming bits of Xmas? We hoped you'd say yes. See, 8-bit Xmas 2009 is an all-new NES cart full of festive LEDs and an original multiplayer snowball fight NES game. It sells for $43, but for $5 more you can get a personalized title screen -- which seems like a relatively cheap fulfillment of that decades long dream of yours to have your name up in pixelated lights on the home console that defined the home console. The cart should be compatible with all real NES systems and hopefully many fake ones, and while it can't help you forgive your Aunt Samantha for giving you that Sudoku quilt, it might just do the insignificant task of teaching you the true meaning of Xmas.

[yode Posted Dec 31st 2009 9:13PM]

what type of NES is DAT

[Cam Posted Dec 31st 2009 9:15PM]

@yode +1

[NAME Posted Dec 31st 2009 9:22PM]

@yode
famicom

when will the AVGN review this?

[Knolly Posted Dec 31st 2009 9:35PM]

@yode
It's the NES-101 (aka top loader).

[Shaun Ryan Posted Dec 31st 2009 9:36PM]

@NAME Actually it's an NES-101, the PS3 slim of it's day. If you wanted a slightly sleeker, smaller NES that only read cartridges 10% of the time, this was the console for you.

[pavelbure Posted Dec 31st 2009 9:43PM]

@Shaun Ryan

Compared to the 3% of the original.

[therockr92 Posted Dec 31st 2009 10:12PM]

Quick! Blow on the cartridge!

[W31RD0 Posted Jan 1st 2010 2:29PM]

@Shaun Ryan

I would think that with a top loader it would have been better than the original. That is the one thing I really hated about NES games, just to play one was a pain in the ass.

[DWells55 Posted Jan 1st 2010 11:07PM]

@W31RD0
I own this model NES and it's great compared to the originals. Loads my carts pretty consistently and I've never had any sort of problems with it.

[Level 5 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 11:05AM]

@yode

Yick, the top-loader NES was notorious for veritcal lines in it's video output. No bueno.

[Joeyjoejoe Shabadoo Posted Dec 31st 2009 9:17PM]

It will sell great for xmas.....1 week ago

[Martin C Posted Dec 31st 2009 10:41PM]

@Joeyjoejoe Shabadoo -- It'll be on their next Christmas Gift Guide they publish next week. Stay tuned!

[Lectronsect Posted Dec 31st 2009 9:28PM]

Does player 2 experience a fiery combustion when player 1 hits him with a snowball?

[Skate It Dont Spray It Posted Dec 31st 2009 9:28PM]

happy new year!

[Mystictrust Posted Dec 31st 2009 9:42PM]

Anyone know where I can download the rom? ;)

[Podaman Posted Dec 31st 2009 11:39PM]

@Mystictrust

http://www.retrousb.com/downloads/xmas09demo.nes

[Guybrush Threepwood Posted Jan 1st 2010 7:23AM]

@Podaman
Hell yeah, internet!

[tlgraham Posted Dec 31st 2009 9:48PM]

here's the sound track: www.8bitchristmas.com

[MarkyB86 Posted Dec 31st 2009 10:00PM]

@tlgraham freakin' sweet

[ksmith Posted Jan 1st 2010 1:19AM]

@tlgraham
www.8[bold]bitch[/bold]ristmas.com
now thats not very nice

[Christian Martin Posted Jan 1st 2010 2:10PM]

@ksmith Reminds me a bit of www.msexchange.org in that respect...

[NohOne1 Posted Dec 31st 2009 10:11PM]

"the home console that defined the home console."

Somebody has never heard of the Atari 2600

[AuDioFreaK39 Posted Dec 31st 2009 10:19PM]

Beautiful.

[Martin C Posted Dec 31st 2009 10:43PM]

And as with everything else at RetroZone, it's overpriced.

[FallenArms3 Posted Dec 31st 2009 11:48PM]

Is it so hard to write out "Christmas", you guys?

[Droider Posted Jan 1st 2010 12:34AM]

@FallenArms3 8 bits, gotta save memory

[Bibojim Posted Jan 1st 2010 12:34AM]

@FallenArms3
Things are always better when they are Xtreme!

[W31RD0 Posted Jan 1st 2010 3:22PM]

@FallenArms3

That would lend allegiance to Jeebus. Statistically most techies are agnostic or atheist.

[FallenArms3 Posted Jan 1st 2010 3:28PM]

@W31RD0 Oh well, doesn't hurt to try.

[Kuruption Posted Jan 1st 2010 1:22AM]

I'll wait for the Sega Master System version.

[Dr Yusuf AlKindi Posted Jan 1st 2010 8:06AM]

Are there developers still working on that platform? Why?

[AeronPeryton Posted Jan 1st 2010 9:27AM]

Is it me or has the NES release schedule really sank over the last 20 years?

[Dusty Posted Jan 1st 2010 9:32AM]

Cool cool. Too bad Christmas is over though...

HAPPY NEW YEARS!

[RupanIII Posted Jan 1st 2010 9:45AM]

I have an NES2 right here... Official, just like the one in the screen, and a bone controller.... need cartridge... need cheaper version of it..

[c w j Posted Jan 1st 2010 10:02AM]

the Atari 2600 didn't define the home console?

[Christian Martin Posted Jan 1st 2010 2:17PM]

I have to admit to ordering one. The customized menu text makes it a good keepsake for my wife and I, since we are both gamers. I plan on dumping the ROM when it gets here and putting the cartridge away with the NES.