One of the great joys of a new gadget is that the ritual unboxing: inside that box containing a smartphone or virtual reality headset is a universe of possibilities.
Plus it turns out unboxings can be just as entertaining once the gadget in question is actually old.
As part of a retrospective show on The Legend of Zelda, Nintends Japanese website recently posted a number of photos of the inside of a company storage room. (The Famicom is the Japanese version of the NES, which launched in 1983 and will shortly be available as an cute plug-and-play mini-console.) Is joined by a stack of Disk Systems, a Famicom add-on which made it possible to use floppy disks with the console.
Not only is that the post a great look at a near-mint-condition 30-year-old console, it ends on the greatest possible notice: it still works! The unseen Nintendo employee manages to hook among the consoles up to a local tube TV to play, what else, a few Legend of Zelda.
