Before the Health Control Game Timer, there was Homework First! It’s like The Club, except built for the NES’s cart slot instead of a steering wheel, and designed to keep children off your system instead of criminals. “Yes, an antidote to Nintendo has arrived,” said the Seattle Times in January 1990, praising the curative gadget. Homework First was sold for $22 through Sharper Image stores and Spiegel catalogs, where it was billed as a counteragent to the video game sickness, finally enabling disapproving mothers to “control when and how much time [their] family play Nintendo.” It was even endorsed by the Council for Children’s Television and Media! Safecare also advertised the lock as an accessory ensuring the safety of saved games, blocking your kid brother from pushing in a cart and deleting your previous save files. See also: More accessories
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