We curse you, beautiful NES. You were the moon in our sky, the apple of our eye and the stabbing pain in our nether-regions. Who among us has not suffered the infuriating “flashing blue screen” and tried to solve it by jamming something into the NES to hold the cartridge down, pinning it like a thrashing possessed child being exorcised?
Well the good people at Shamoozal remember our pain, and have captured it well. This mock instructional film show’s a new NES owner all the wonderful parts of his new system. Sure, he gets electrocuted, but “Contra” finally appears on the screen. Love is pain.
Ah the elegant, vintage rage. We’ve gotten the wind knocked out of us huffing and puffing into those grey cartridges. All that’s missing is having the blue screen pop up halfway through “Contra’s” 30-life code. “Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right… BLARG!”
Or remember when it turned into a random smattering of pixels? Apparently an abstract artist did, and it inspired rather than enraged.
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