harrymcc writes "On October 18th 1985, Nintendo launched its NES console in the US, reviving a near-dead video game industry and establishing Nintendo as a leader in home consoles. We've celebrated with a roundup of some of the stranger spinoffs that the NES has inspired over the last quarter century, from odd controllers to a lock parents could use to disable the console to do-it-yourself projects like an NES built into a Super Mario cartridge."<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot .org%2Fstory%2F10%2F10%2F18%2F2017233%2FNintendo-Entertainment-System- Turns-25%3Ffrom%3Dfb" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a>
  
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