Here at DCist, we’ve fostered a reputation as the definitive source of all things Dismemberment Plan fandom. Combine that with our affinity for the blip-bloop of an NES score, and we’re unable to resist.

It’s kind of a slow Monday morning, which gives me a chance to selfishly indulge my penchant for 80s nostalgia. Wired points out that on this day in 1985, the first Nintendo Entertainment Systems hit American living rooms, with little fanfare and no idea how huge of a cultural phenomenon it would become.