Parental Locks For Video Games Used To Be Crazy
By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001
These days, parental locks stop kids from playing games using simple software. In 1990, lacking that kind of technology, things were a little more draconian. This is the “Homework First” video game lock, designed for the NES. It does not fuck around. Looking like a very hefty bike lock, it hooked underneath the console and pried the cartridge door open, meaning that l86 unless you wanted to trash the casing l86.com สล็อต of the NES, games couldn’t be played while it was engaged. What’s even more amazing than the product itself is the marketing campaign to sell it, which involved use of the word “Nintendonitis”. My hat goes off to EW’s archives for keeping stuff as far back as 1990: To prevent what it calls ”Nintendonitis” —