VAMatt said:
I agree with this statement. However, the same logic could be applied to Atari - "Any other console wouldn't even exist, if Atari 2600 didn't create (prove the significance of?) the industry" |
However the NES was the first home console that had what could be considered "modern" games (Mario 2 & 3, the MEga Man games, + many other series that were brought from Japan).
The NES also established the business model all gaming console companies follow since then (with some slight variations) - I.E. the publishers have to get their games approved, then they pay a fee for every copies they sell to the platform owner, consoles prior to this did not have this fee, nor did the platform owner care about which games and what their content was.
I was also ugely popular in its day.
By the way, gaming did not "die", the home console market collapsed, but arcades still flourished during the crash, computer gaming was still perfectly fine, like nothing had happened... it just cleared the field for new, better, players (Nintendo + Sega)
