🕹️ The last place anyone thought to look

In 1986, Nintendo released the Famicombox — a commercial 8-bit system for Japanese hotels, holding up to 16 cartridges, coin-operated, never meant for home use. Most units disappeared long ago.

Famicom archivist Orochi went undercover to a love hotel and found a batch of them, fully operational, installed in nearly every room. Almost all games work fine — the only casualties are Zapper shooters, since light guns and LCD TVs have never really got along. Orochi won't name the hotel, hoping to "protect" the consoles. Automaton Media broke the story.

Forty years later, the hardware is still clocking in. Just not at the kind of hotel Nintendo imagined.

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