My recollection is that this was the first Christmas that the NES was widespread. I wanted one so badly when I saw it and like most dumb kids at that time, I was convinced that R.O.B was going to be my new awesome robo best friend. I never did get R.O.B, by the time I got an NES, it was 1987 and I had seen it fail at all of my friends’ homes.
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I’ve got a couple JC Penny Christmas Catalogs from the 90s (not sure of the years), I’ll have to dig them up and see if there’s anything good in there.
Oh, I am sure they will have SOMETHING good.
Do you look back now and thank God you didn’t get a ROB? NES didn’t enter my life until 1990, when the Power Pad and Glove were the hot periphials. Never heard of ROB til I was older. I recently bought off craigslist a mint Power Set, with the NES and Pad in the box, stryofoam and all. The woman lived a block away from me. God bless her.
I had my eyes on R.O.B. as well. I remember being really disappointed the NES system we got didn’t include him.
Sometimes, I wish we could just go back to the simpler 8-bit times. The new Mega Man is 8-bit but incredibly hard.
When I was like five years old my sisters boyfriend had R.O.B. and I thought he was some kind of scientist for having a ‘real robot’.
What exactly did R.O.B. do? I could never figure that part out.
I still dislike Nintendo to this day, especially the NES! I think Atari still had the best video game systems as far as graphics, sound and processing power. It was the marketing that lured kids to Nintendo. ROB was just a marketing ploy. Nintendo ROBbed the new Atari of its business in 1986. B*stards! Still hate u 4 this Nintendo
Just FYI, that’s not the first christmas that nintendo was widespread. That’s the 2nd gen of R.O.B.