Nintendo Entertainment System: Difference between revisions

The NES was also bundled with R.O.B. the robot in 1985, a battery-powered accessory to the NES system that could purportedly play games alongside you on the system. A seeming cross between {{wp|R2-D2}} and {{wp|E.T.}} <ref>https://www.google.com/books/edition/Power_Up/VuA7DQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0</ref>, R.O.B. functioned by using a series of flashing LED lights emitted from the TV set during the games ''[[wikipedia:R.O.B.|Gyromite]]'' and ''[[wikipedia:R.O.B.|Stack-Up]]'' to manually maneuver round objects to place on plastic parts connected to a standard NES controller, acting as its inputs. R.O.B. was short-lived, as he merely served as a trojan horse to get the NES into American homes, but he helped to give the NES a beginning, which led to the system becoming an American phenomenon only a year later. Along with being bundled with the NES system, a standalone R.O.B. was also released in 1986, which was released alongside a big box version of ''Gyromite]]'' that contained the R.O.B. attachments included in the 1985 set. The standard (and only) ''[[wikipedia:R.O.B.|Stack-Up]]'' release also contained a set of colorful gyro blocks, which could be used by R.O.B. to play ''Stack-Up''. In short, you could acquire R.O.B. and all of his accessories in two ways: you could purchase the October 1985 bundle/NES Deluxe Set and ''Stack-Up'', or you could purchase R.O.B., the big box ''Gyromite'', and ''Stack-Up'' individually. The same R.O.B., Stack-Up, and Gyromite bundles were released for the Famicom in Japan as well, with R.O.B. having the same maroon and cream color scheme as the Famicom; this would later be present as an alternate color option in R.O.B.'s subsequent [[sw:R.O.B|''Super Smash Bros.'' appearances]].

The NES advantage controller was also developed in the late 80s, functioning as an arcade-reminiscent alternative to the NES controller. The controller