You might know that before the NES, Nintendo was thinking about bringing the Famicom over to the US as the Advanced Video System. There was even one on display at the Nintendo World Store in NYC for a while.
The Video Game History Foundation has what we believe to be the only surviving flyers for the Nintendo AVS, which were handed out back in 1985. They show a vision for a pretty radically different console where you could add on functionality with new accessories. This is a REALLY cool artifact of how Nintendo was trying to approach game console marketing in the wake of the whole "the entire American console game industry collapsed" thing.
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This is so damn wild! Wireless controllers! A wand controller that folds into a zapper! Famicom BASIC hardware and software localization! And the music board holy moly that is a shocker