Lost video takes us inside Nintendo In 1990 NES consoles were manufactured

Total revocationTotal revocationTotal Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends.

This 20-minute collection of b-roll recordings, shot as part of a news release and only uploaded to YouTube this week, gives us a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Nintendo of America in 1990, showing everything from production to R&D to the Nintendo Power Line.

Although some of them are told or are part of interviews, many of them are simply footage capturing day-to-day activities that are incredibly relaxing to watch on a ‘slow TV’. The workers who assemble NES consoles by hand is particularly good.

If this flashback in time is nostalgic for long-running consumer electronics news stories, the same YouTube account has a lot more to explore, including the launch of the iMac in 1998 and a trip to 1991 to Toys ‘R’ Us.

(Thank you Cable!)