Rare Famicombox surfaces in a Japanese love hotel—and it still works
A Nintendo historian named Orochi discovered a fully functional Famicombox, a 1986 commercial-use Famicom, still installed and playable at an unnamed love hotel in Japan. The Zapper couldn’t be tested due to the hotel’s LCD TV, but the system otherwise works, a finding that fuels long-standing rumors about Nintendo operating love hotels and highlights the persistence of rare hardware in unexpected places.