ECM on 28 March 2013
I got one on Xmas morning, 1985, and my heart goes out to this brave soul :D
Also: the reason ROB was created was so that many retailers would carry it *at all* ("appealing" doesn't qutite do justice to the situation at the time), since they refused to take another bath on videogames, which were a dead letter in '85, outside arcades and the PC (writ large) scene. ROB let Nintedo sell it as a toy, and not a game system--the rest is history.
