Editing Homework First

{{short description|Parental lock for the Nintendo Entertainment System}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox information appliance
| title = Homework First
| image = 
| caption = 
| developer = SafeCare Products, Inc.<br>[[Master Lock]]
| type = Combination lock
| release date = 1990<ref name="Kotaku">{{cite web|url= https://kotaku.com/parental-locks-for-video-games-used-to-be-crazy-1633774428 |title= Parental Locks For Video Games Used To Be Crazy |author= Luke Plunkett |work= Kotaku |date= September 11, 2014 |accessdate= November 13, 2018}}</ref>
| platform = [[Nintendo Entertainment System]]
}}
The '''Homework First''' is a [[combination lock]] [[Parental controls|parental control]] device for the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] made by SafeCare Products, Inc. of [[Dundee, Illinois]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Warshaw |first1=Michael |title=The Thing That Would Not Die, E-Commerce Article |url=https://www.inc.com/magazine/20000315/17875.html |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=Inc.com |date=15 March 2000 |language=en}}</ref> and [[Master Lock]]. The lock features a "Self-Setting" combination that attaches to the open bay of a front-loading NES-001 system via a screw hole below the [[ROM cartridge|cartridge]] slot which enables the lock to grab the console like a [[vise]] to prevent both the insertion of cartridges and the removal of the device.<ref name="Kotaku"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Nintendo's Forgotten Console Peripherals |url=https://transmithim.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/nintendos-forgotten-console-peripherals/ |website=Transmit Him |accessdate=July 8, 2018 |date=July 31, 2014}}</ref> Around 25,000 units were claimed to have been sold.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Plante |first1=Chris |title=How overbearing parents prevented kids from playing video games in 1989 |url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/10/6130973/safe-care-homework-first-nintendo-lock |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The Verge |date=10 September 2014 |language=en}}</ref>

==Reception==
[[ACE (magazine)|ACE magazine]] panned the device on a conceptual level during their 1989 [[Consumer Electronics Show|CES]] coverage.<ref>{{cite book |title=ACE Magazine |date=August 1989 |page=11}}</ref>

[[Jeuxvideo.com]] cited the device as one of the first video game parental controls.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nintendo et les accessoires : une histoire d'amour qui dure depuis plus de 30 ans |url=https://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/1129507/nintendo-et-les-accessoires-une-histoire-d-amour-qui-dure-depuis-plus-de-30-ans.htm |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=Jeuxvideo.com |date=October 25, 2019 |language=fr}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[10NES]] (lockout chip preventing games not authorized by Nintendo from running)

==References==
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{{Nintendo Entertainment System}}

[[Category:Nintendo Entertainment System accessories]]
[[Category:Locks (security device)]]
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