When did you get your Famicom?

[Vikingo70s]

I don't have a Famicom, I have a cheap famiclone named "soccer station" (?)
Newest famiclones have a lot of weird names...
Some i ve listed below:

-Hammy
-Terminator
-Fun station
-Game station (think its an hybrid between playstation & gamecube hehehe)
-super 3d game (3d, where?)

and there are a lot more, hope i could buy an original famicom or at least an early famiclone (those look like famicom replica !!!)   

[waiyan115]

My first one dated back in around 1984. Now I have 4 of them, plus all the Famicom related toys!~

Nintendo ROCKS !

[skyrunner14]

I just got mine a week ago, and finally got my first game today!

[SeanOrange]

I got mine in June 2006 at a little store in Japan called Wanpaku.  I'd wanted one for many years, and hadn't ever considered getting one until it was right there in rather pristine condition.  I'm not sure, but I think it was one of those later models manufactured in the '90s, which would explain its good condition.

Days before I got a complete working system, I'd actually bought two junkers that I tried to resuscitate.  One had crummy controllers, but worked great.  The other one had wonderful controllers but wouldn't power on.  A bit of surgery later I had "transplanted" the Famicom controllers from one system to the other.  The ugly junker now takes up space on a friend's shelf, complete with a working copy of Robot Gyro (AKA Gyromite).

I actually had to replace my nice Famicom a little while ago because of an inexplicable power failure.  Very sad...  But now I also have a Twin Famicom (a the non-turbo red one), so JUST IN CASE my Disk System dies I'll have a spare.

[Trium Shockwave]

Mine arrived from Rising Stuff on Thursday. Along with it, Macross, Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu, Moero! Pro Yakyuu, Shinjinrui, and Mahjong. Coincidentally a package from an eBay seller containing Transformers: Mystery of Convoy, Z Gundam Hot Scramble and Star Force also showed up that day. Adding to that the SMB3 cart that arrived a week earlier, and that leaves me with 9 games. One of which (SMB3) is actually good  I did sit down and plow through Transformers today, at leas the first run through. Missed a RODIMUS letter somewhere, but forget that. Once through that game in a sitting is enough.

[SeanOrange]

Trium Shockwave?  THE Trium Shockwave?  Like, AllSpark and Big Bot and all that jazz?

[Trium Shockwave]

That'd be me. Fancy running into you in an out of the way part of the Internets like this eh?

Spooie pointed Famicom Dojo out to me back when you first started doing it. Good stuff. You have me mortified of finding a copy of Wrecking Crew on one of my FDS disks though.

[SeanOrange]

Hey, it could happen!  It's not that typical, actually.  I think most shops at least check them before they sell them.  Mine was a unique case!  Hiro did apologize profusely and told me I could have anything else I wanted, but I kind of wanted a copy anyway!

[Rob64]

I haven't gotten mine yet but I know a famicom is coming by christmas of this year. I am hoping I can ask for a FDS for my birthday..... in July