These are boards for the Famicom. I don't know if the BOARDS are authentic, but the rewritable EPROMs are def. old. pic.twitter.com/TTUsBy3GX1
— Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) 15 agosto 2016
I have just acquired and preserved an incredible piece of video game history. It will take a few tweets to explain: pic.twitter.com/CvRgPX7TPv
— Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) 15 agosto 2016
These were kinda fishy looking but I picked them up anyway. They are: Hyper Olympic, Stargate, Soccer, and Joust. — Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) 15 agosto 2016
I dumped the ROMs. All but Soccer are definitely earlier-than-retail code. Here are some clear differences in Joust. pic.twitter.com/uGeEbSJWmK — Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) 15 agosto 2016
Joust has an interesting history. It was programmed by Satoru Iwata in 1983, as part of a Nintendo/Atari deal that never happened. — Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) 15 agosto 2016
Nintendo did not release it in 1983/1984 as planned, but HAL eventually self-published in 1987…years later.
— Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) 15 agosto 2016
Joust was the first thing Satoru Iwata, the eventual president of Nintendo, ever coded for a Nintendo system. — Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) 15 agosto 2016
…so this is the earliest known Iwata code for Nintendo. pic.twitter.com/7Lh7wBMMGA
— Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) 15 agosto 2016
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