By 1987, the two-year-old R.O.B. and "Robot Series" had received none of Nintendo's promised updates while the rest of the NES's library had exploded with classic flagship franchise-building hits like "Super Mario Bros.", "The Legend of Zelda", and "Metroid". In 1987, Mark Seeley of "Crash!" magazine visited a toy fair in England to observe a playthrough of "Gyromite" with R.O.B., saying of the struggling demonstrator that he had "never seen anything so complicated and difficult in all my life". In July 1987, "Family Computing" magazine advocated buying the much cheaper and more entertaining setup of the Control Deck and "Super Mario Bros." instead of R.O.B., saying, "Anyone who has seen a Nintendo ad on television would think that R.O.B. is the heart of the system. Not so. R.O.B. is an ingenious idea while R.O.B. is a cute little guy, there isn't much you can do with him. ... [Neither his two games generates much excitement."