Hold down RESET while you power off your NES -- or else!

Bamboo tackles the age-old gamer question: Why did some battery backed-up NES games ask you to hold down the RESET button when you powered down the NES? Thanks to @ijimkoz on Twitter, Tyrel, and Keenan for their help with this video! Check out more at https://theindustriousrabbit.com ## References ### The best answers I could start working from * https://web.archive.org/web/20140906113717/http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=28592 * https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/267306/why-do-some-versions-of-legend-of-zelda-on-the-nes-have-the-hold-reset-caution * https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/229861 * https://www.reddit.com/r/nes/comments/9xsi98/holding_reset_when_you_turn_the_power_off/ ### The 6502 and the RESET line * https://doc.lagout.org/science/0_Computer%20Science/0_Computer%20History/old-hardware/mosTechnology/_dataBooks/1982_MOS_Technology_Data_Catalog.pdf - Straight from Commodore, the manufacturers of the 6502. Page 31 describes the RESET signal in more d