How To Be a Real Nintendo Fanboy

July 31, 2008 | By: Grant Holzhauer

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Think you're a Nintendo fanboy? Make sure you have all these essentials in your collection.

R.O.B.

Real fanboys know that a product doesn't necessarily have to be good simply to have nostalgic value. Such is the case with Nintendo's Robotic Operating Buddy (R.O.B.), an obscure robotic peripheral released for the NES in 1985. Supporting only two games and being generally a niche item, few people probably actually owned one of these when it hit the market. Since then R.O.B. has become the stuff of legends. Making a recent reappearance in the Wii's Super Smash Bros. Brawl, our old pal is once again making the rounds. Even if you never played the supported games (Gyromite and Stack-Up), this is the kind of thing that you'd want to proudly display in a prominent location in your collection.

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dariasmystkspirl at 12:31 am on August 12th 2008

Oh my goodness. I totally have that Donkey Kong Jr. game from the Game & Watch series. I played that thing for hours upon hours when I was a kid. I remember taking that little sucker with me in the car every time my dad would take me fishing. I also saw that little guy in a museum in Washington D.C. about a year ago; it was featured with a lot of other little electronic gadgetry. Fun memories.*smiles*

oversteering at 3:49 pm on August 4th 2008

This is like beating an undead horse. Who dosn't know all this by now. w

absinthedog at 12:40 pm on August 4th 2008

I could never be a Nintendo Fanboy. Because I'm a girl. This is the second time I've caught you being sexist, gamedaily.com. I'm disappointed.

osacolouredcopic at 11:12 am on August 4th 2008

Oh. MAH BOIIII MENTIONING THE CD-IS IS WHAT ALL TRUE FANBOYS STRIVE FOR BUT MENTIONING THEM ON THIS BOARD YOU MUST DIE -fingerlightningplz-

osacolouredcopic at 11:09 am on August 4th 2008

You guys never get tired of targeting poor Nintendo, do you? All you do is BAWWWWW about it. My God. Choose to ignore it if it bothers you that much... I do like Nintendo though. I'm sorry. Is it a crime I grew up with the N64? Excuse me, I think I need to go cosplay as Claus now...

guycom93 at 10:49 am on August 4th 2008

so the key to being a fanboy is to have ****** consoles that failed?

theideon at 2:37 pm on August 3rd 2008

You should probably put a Famicom on that list. Before the 64DD anyway.

dinoe6 at 12:08 pm on August 3rd 2008

the guy who wrote this must be obsessed

guykamen at 12:19 am on August 2nd 2008

Forget life. Fanboys just need to get laid. Wait, more fanboy babies. No, scratch that. Just keep playing your stupid games and stay the hell off girls.