I Love the Famicom Disk System

Let's all make disk reading noises together

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[SHIGUFEVER]

Jon, you're my favorite gaming console.

[BenVaBo]

9:04 I want to see Jon record an entire let's play like this.

[Nukatha]

Jon, you can pick your upgrade order in English Zelda 2. The game encourages a particular order with the XP leaning you toward raising the three stats evenly, but you can always choose to not take the first option and earn more XP first.

[Jenaxu]

I love when I can tell it's a Jon video just from the title

[Guarda-Chuva.]

Disk System's final words moved me to tears, such a nice guy

[coneg]

i was thinking about picking up one of the Sharp two-in-ones a couple years ago as my first physical NES, it seems slightly more likely the rubber band doesn't fail and i like how funky it looks. but Nintendo putting out a lot of the Famicom Disk System versions of games on NSO's Japanese app saved me the money; the main thing missing is the Famicom Detective Games and i can't read the language to enjoy the differences from the remakes!

[juiceala]

As an Asian who grew up with the Famicom I really like the rectangular cartridges, they’re very nostalgic, I feel bad for you westerners who grew up with the bulcky grey ones, very ugly, even the system looks very ugly.

[Caolan]

The famicom Is such a nice looking system with that red and white and then gold on the controllers
the colorful and smaller cartridges

but someone somewhere In the 80's said "No, make It a VHS player"

[alwaysasn]

I love trying to guess who the voice behind the video is going to be before I click. I always get Jon videos correct lmao.

[svenbtb]

This was seriously cool, thank you for making this! I've always thought that the Famicom Disk System (as well as the other console add-ons you mentioned) were really fascinating and interesting!

I know that this would be REALLY hard, but if you could do something similar for the Satellaview it would be super cool to see. But I know it's really kind of a crapshot when it comes to trying to collect games, especially now lol. So if you need to use Emulation I don't think anyone would mind

[MrMegaManFan]

I'm doing the next best thing - I bought the RAM adapter cart and a FDS Key. That way I can play the games without worrying about disks failing or belts deteriorating.

[Chrisaaron]

Cool video! When the Castlevania Anniversary Collection was released years ago, I learned of the cartridge re-release that came out for the Famicom 5 years later with a new easy mode. Unlike the Famicom Disc version or the American cartridge, I could actually beat that one...

[OGSHY]

Never knew about this. It was a super cool concept, maybe a little before my time. But super cool. Great video!

[MakeItAme]

This was really cool! It's really interesting to me that on the Discs there are 3 lines in the Nintendo logo deeper than the rest, which is exactly the same way the GC jewel is being attached to

[MLennholm]

One more way it became obsolete and redundant is that the enhanced sound could be implemented in cartridges with an on-board co-processor. See Castlevania III. Unfortunately, for technical reasons the NES couldn't support this so once again we here in the west missed out.

[flamespear]

Not all of those cartridges are full of empty plastic some western games utilized that space for larger boards with more chips for more complex games Japan didn't get.

[maxinsano]

@14:45 what the hell are you talking about?? Ghosts n Goblins never came out on the disk system. What is this??? AI ???

[BigHead]

So, I kind of like your videos, but, the few that I have seen so far, I can't tell if you're just being funny / ironic or what, with regurgitating the same crap about "SMB 2 and Doki Doki Panic", since, in much more recent years, it's been confirmed that the game VERY ORIGINALLY started development as a Mario game / the sequel to SMB 1. It's on the MarioWiki, as well as in at least one, if not two different videos that I've watched (I know one of GTV Japan's videos for sure, maybe more than one of his, and possibly in one of Gaming Historian's videos). But either way, yeah the Famicom Disk System is such a neat little addon for the console. I just wish that I wasn't so low on funds at the moment, I want to buy one badly.

[TrailingSpaces]

Great video! I love these showcases of nintendo/gaming history. There's a certain charm that's lost when emulating that's captured here like the sounds of the machine or the the BIOS. Thanks Jon !!

[costelinha]

Do you know what this extra channel on the FDS reminds of sometimes? The FM-sound addon for the japanese Master System.