As many here know what Nintendo unveiled back at the 1985 CES was radically different then what the NES became. Ever since the Pokemon center in New York turned into Nintendo World some components of the Nintendo Advanced Video System have been on display though the actual system is not. While these pictures have been on the net for some time I don't recall them being posted here nor any discussion of the system itself so I've taken the liberty to post them myself. Wherever they are I want to than FortNinty and Koopa P whom I graciously "borrowed" these photos from. Artist's rendering of the system. Artist's rendering of the Keyboard. A publicity photo of the system. Note that it appears to take standard Famicom carts and the controllers are hardwired like the Famicom though they were to be wireless in the final design. A look at the Keyboard and controllers. A better look at the Keyboard. The Musical Keyboard. The Tape Deck. A closer look at the Tape Deck. The wireless Controllers. Closer look at the Controllers. The Flight Stick controller. The Zapper. Side view of the Zapper. The display at Nintendo World. The display card reads as follows... "ADVANCED VIDEO SYSTEM†The Advance Video System, or AVS, was the prototype of the popular Nintendo Entertainment System. The AVS was shown publicly only once, in 1985 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The AVS was revolutionary for its day. The system included a keyboard, handheld joysticklight wand/gun, music keyboard, and a data storage unit, that was all infrared wireless. The revolutionary controllers were also wireless, and could be stored in the front of the main unit, or control deck when not in use. The AVS combined many features found in computers of the day and included innovative functions such as game editing and storage, music composition, light wand-TV game interaction (you could shoot at the TV), and never before seen 8-bit video game graphics.",
Yeah, I'd seen some pics of that controller and some of those protos in a past thread - and, I, at least, was interested as hell. The "Zapper" looks super retro-chic, and the controllers are the bomb. Hell, the whole system looks better designed. The famicom carts it takes, and the promotionals, that's interesting as well. I am to speculate that the tape drive would have been equivalent to the Famicom Disc System here. The keyboard and the flight stick would have been great additions to the NES line up.. AVS lineup, that is. Thanks a lot for the update on the subject. Great pictures.
if this was shown at ces 85, wasnt the famicom already released in japan..... i still cant understand why nintendo switched up the carts from the famicom to the nes...
Probably to keep people from importing? That's my guess, although I'm sure there's a "real" reason to it... That's a pretty interesting piece of hardware.
that was already posted on the boards, still cool to see them again though. edtiting games...damn, that would have been fun!
wonder if it really worked or was just plastic. If it were real i wouldn't mind knowing what street value is for something that rare.
billions. no, really, this is deep in nintendo's underground AND secret QJ, i highly doubt we'll ever see this surface on ebay or something. Never say never though.
It's funny to think that during that time Nintendo was seriously trying to get Atari to market their system in the States. If only they had.
I love atari more than anything, but I think it was for the best of the gaming industry that they died without the famicom deal. They would have sit on it and marketed the 7800, probably. Or they would have run it into the ground.
