Buddy of mine picked this up randomly locally, the controllers only, no unit. From the brief research I did, It looks like there was around only 200 of these units produced? These as rare as it looks like? http://nes.wikia.com/wiki/Television_With_Built-In_NES (not my pic, just found the controllers) Looks like these only were on sale for 2 months for first run, and then 1-2 months for second run.. They are a bit dusty, just need to be cleaned up otherwise they are in great condition
For the full unit, or controllers only? Here is an auction for the full unit that went for 445 shipped - http://cgi.ebay.com/NES-Nintendo-Sh...elevisions&hash=item20b53a84be#ht_1011wt_1141
I saw one, with a bunch of games, not sure if it had controllers. $700 and they wouldn't ship it. And there was no way in hell I'd drive halfway across the country to pick it up.
Question: Does the picture look any better being directly integrated with the TV? Or is the picture just as fuzzy as the regular NES?
No idea, I would imagine it looks the same. Imagine how difficult it could potentially be to replace the 72 pin in this sucker..
if you should take one lession from this its keep your boxes people! I still have my gamecube box lol. Yeah beat that. well one day it will be worth something i bet.
NO ONE makes only 200 units. They sold these in thousands of sears stores across the country. So there's at least ten per store, so say over 2000 at the minimum.
my dad had us keep our NES box. And my SNES, all my N64's, Gamecube, Xbox...every gameboy I've owned...
After a lot of digging I still can't say for sure whether it's composite or RGB (the service manual seems to be only available on pay sites). It's hard to say based on the image at the top of this thread (Mario looks fuzzy, the logo looks surprisingly clean). Here's another one: This one looks more obviously composite. Bleeding and rolling all over the place on the logo. Image quality isn't great in general though. I also found a thread on the benheck forums where some guy was making a portable out of the board from one of these (dead CRT). He was using composite.
I have one, it has no real benefit over a normal tv. Also with age it looks rather poorly now due to the caps dying.
Any chance we could get a screenshot of some obvious rolling, like the flagpole at the end of a level of Super Mario Bros? That'd pretty much settle it. Japanese wiki pages and some other sources seem to say that the Japanese Sharp Famicom TV actually does use RGB, which is more likely given the Titler.
Other than the controllers, the TV unit is pretty silly, I'm sure its more of a burden to have it all in one. Just a novelty.
