Were Famicom consoles REALLY white when they were new?

[AndrewSi]

Been curious to see if when you were able to buy the original famicom new were they really white, like stark, bright white? Or were they off white, cream colored?

I know famicom's tend to turn yellow with age, but I have famicom that is not really a bright white but a slight cream colored white(hint of cream/yellow) I also have a boxed robot block(stack up) and the arms/stands match the color of the famicom. Both are not really a stark white. The color is uniform all around the console even in all the cracks and crevices.

Just wanted to see how much my console has aged compared to when it was new. Judging from others mine has aged(if any) quite gracefully lol. 

You can kinda tell the difference in whites between the Lego Mario and the console, it's alittle more obvious in person.

[linkzpikachu]

i know that they were intended to have the same colors as the japanese flag but thats about all i, a dumbass american, knows

[tappybot]

You sure?  I heard the reason red and white were selected was because they were the cheapest colors to run through production.

But yeah, I wonder if they were really white back then or not.  I'm thinking at their whitest, they were a bit pearl, or cream like you say.

[linkzpikachu]

never knew that they were the cheapest colors. but i guess my reason could be logical too Japanese console=Colors of Japanese flag

[Xious]

The industry name for this colour is 'Snow White', a sort-of off-white also used by Apple in 1985-6 on the //c; apple followed this by their 'Platinum' grey, and it was preceded by a type of beige. Snow White plastic turns yellow easily in UV-light, but the original colour was a creamy white, not pure-white. I have a couple virgin systems if anybody needs to see what they look like when contrasted against different degrees of UV-damage.

FYI, the RetroBrite method works like a charm (search the forums for RetroBrite).