Nitrome Enjoyment System

The  is a console allegedly made by Nitrome Limited in 1984. The was Nitrome's original Flagship product, but it was presumably cancelled. The games were planned to come in Game Cartridge format. It also was planned to come with the Nitrome Glove. There is an ongoing debate amongst fans as to whether or not it is a real product or a joke or hoax by Nitrome.

History
The would have been worked on in 1982-1983. It was never released, and there are no records of it ever existing. In November 2010, 26 years later, it was discovered by a Nitrome employee while they were moving stuff from one building to another.On the nitrome website, ocassoinly in the advert box in the bottom left corner, a picture of this so called 'enjoyment system' is featured. If a user clicks on this it comes up with a diagram of the box that the console would have came in.

Console
The had several buttons on the console. If the version on the left is based on (or is) the actual invention, there are 2 ports, for 2 Turbo Controller cords. The Black Bar in the middle of the console is where the Cartridges are inserted.

The Light Gray button with the "P" on it is pressed to play a game cartridge inserted into the console. Below the Cartridge-insert area are 2 buttons - the left gray while the right is a darker shade of gray.

The left "Eject" button is pressed when the player is finished playing the game and wants to eject it from the slot. The right button "Restart" is pressed when the game freezes, a glitch occurs, or the player wants to reset the game without ejecting the cartridge then inserting it back in.

There is a dial where the player can alter the graphics from 8-bit to 16-bit by rising the dial or bringing it down.

Specifications
The system had several specifications mentioned on the back of the box.


 * POW-Based 1up core
 * Up to 16 bit graphics
 * 3 1/2 channel sound
 * Blast processing FX Chip (sold separately)


 * 2 Turbo Controller ports (box contains one controller)
 * Compatible with Nitrome Disk System
 * Requires 15 "AA" batteries (not included)
 * Wall-Plug Compatible (not included)

Games

 * 52 in 6
 * Shoot
 * The Bucket
 * Pixel Bros.
 * Balloon
 * Super Treadmill
 * Maths


 * Ninja
 * To Be Announced
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 * To Be Announced

Controversy and Existence as a system
Before the release of Super Treadmill, there was a lot of controversy over the existence of the. When it was first revealed, many fans took it as a joke, not thinking it to be real. Nitrome had claimed to be in the process of porting the games onto the internet not to soon after finding it.

Evidence against its Existence

 * 3 days later, after its revealing to the internet, it was discovered on the left side of the box there were several words that were made to be small. There was some big words saying the age rating. This is what the big words and small print said:

For Ages 30 and Downwards1984 Nitrome Inc. MADE IN CHINA All rights reserved. Nitrome and associated trademarks and

trade dress owned my Nitrome inc. all games are made up on the spot by a Nitrome artist and probably do not actually exist. Man this is a small font, don’t strain your eyes trying to read this. It’s just as BORING as it looks.

This was thought to prove that the was a hoax, but some say it was not. This was possibly added as a joke or way of fueling skepticism.
 * If Nitrome planned its release in 1984, Nitrome either went bankrupt before they did so, went bankrupt after canceling the project or went into hiding after they decided not to sell it, because the company wasn't back on the market until 2006.
 * No beat or alpha versions were released, so the project would have either been highly secretive or ridiculously low-budget.
 * Programmaticly, INTERCAL would not be used to program a console game at the time. C, a low-level language, or a scripting language (possibly created by Nitrome) would most likely be used instead. Also, it should have taken a longer period of time to port games from INTERCAL to ActionScript.
 * Its name bears a vivid resemblance to the Nintendo Entertainment System, hinting it is a joke.
 * In Super Treadmill, a game said to be ported from the, has the Blue Troll, Magneboy, Cable Car, and a double deckered bus saying Skywire on it as platforms in the game. It is possible that these were included for no reason, then included in later games.
 * On the first Nitrome Website, it says that Nitrome was formed after a conversation by Mat and Heather in 2004. How then is it possible for Nitrome to have started up in 1983, 21 years later?
 * Mat and Heather would have to have been in their 20's while making the console. Since the console came out in 1984, they would have to have been in their 50's by 2010. Judging from pictures of them, they look much younger.
 * In Super Treadmill, several consoles and hand-helds appear as platforms. 2 of the consoles being the Game Boy and Nintendo DS. The Game Boy wasn't released until 1989 in Japan, and 1990 to the rest of the world. The Nintendo DS also wasn't revealed to the public until 2003. It is possible these were added when the game was ported.
 * It has been a while since a game from the Nitrome Enjoyment System has been uploaded; this suggests that they're making the games and then uploading them. Then again, they may have to remake the games.

Evidence for its Existence

 * Aaron Steed on Facebook replied to two comments about the, saying it did exist in the first comment, and that Nitrome had ported 14 games in the second.
 * In an E-mail to a Nitrome fan, Mat said there was more to reveal about the, and there was things he didn't want to reveal to the general public yet.
 * It would have been finished right when the North American Video Game Crash hit, which may have caused them to cease work on it, fail to get it in any stores, or go bankrupt for 2 decades (in spite of filing no report).
 * INTERCAL would have theoretically functioned, and Nitrome may have gone with professionality or quality rather than speed or quantity.
 * Nitrome could have ported the games before revealing they found the console.
 * "(Company name) (Possible Adjective) System (or number)" was a relatively common title for first-party video game consoles open to licensing.

Trivia

 * There seems to be no record of the Nitrome Enjoyment system ever being released to the public. Before it was revealed in 2010, it was not even known it existed.