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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Where would we be now if the NES didn't come when it did?

sguy78 on 29 July 2009
richardhutnik said:
Ryudo said:
Lingyis said:
if not NES, something else would have come along, even if weren't as influential. the NES wasn't that revolutionary, no need to put it on a pedestal.

Yes it was.

Nintendo invented the D pad which is now standard. Plus it introduced us to games like Mario and Zelda which were breaktrhough back then.

Atari was about dead and practically no one even heard of master system.

 

That reminds me of the first time I saw an NES in a KMart near I was.  I was used to joystick controller, and wondered where they heck the controller was for the NES.  The store employee in the electronics department pointed to the D pad controller, and I was like, "You GOT to be kidding me".  Well, I did get an NES and did get used to it.  But the D-Pad definitely killed off maze games.  Pac Man like games generally SUCK with a D-Pad.

It was better than the joysticks that preceded it though.



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zzyoshiman on 29 July 2009

basically nintendo saved the video game business, due to the fatalness of E.T for the 2600



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sguy78 on 29 July 2009
zzyoshiman said:
basically nintendo saved the video game business, due to the fatalness of E.T for the 2600

You know a game is a pathetic failure when the unsold cartidges are buried in a massive hole.



vidiotsavant on 29 July 2009

In far less Debt



sguy78 on 29 July 2009
vidiotsavant said:

In far less Debt

I wonder how much cash I have personally paid towards Nintendo products over the past twenty plus years.



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sguy78 on 31 July 2009

I just can't believe it came out around 25 years ago.



amp316 on 01 August 2009

The Commodore 64 would have increased in popularity. This would have led to more "gaming computers". As much as I love the NES, gaming would have made a comeback if it didn't exist.



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sguy78 on 01 August 2009
amp316 said:
The Commodore 64 would have increased in popularity. This would have led to more "gaming computers". As much as I love the NES, gaming would have made a comeback if it didn't exist.

I still have some of my Commodore 64 games. I remember having tape games that took something like ten minutes to load.



Joelcool7 on 01 August 2009

I'm a major Nintendo fan but if Nintendo didn't enter gaming we would be in a Sonic centered universe. Sonic would have replaced Mario Atari would probubly still be alive as a console manufacturer. Sony would have never entered the market, neither would Phillips, Apple and Microsoft would have continued to support games as a medium for computers.

Alot would change , alot of the great games we see today were inspired by Nintendo's titles. But I think Sega would have filled the void with Atari surviving to be the secondary console of choice. Computer gaming would have probubly been a much bigger challenge to the console centric sociaty we have today.

Can you imagine a world where Sonic went unchallenged by Mario.

 

Now the real question has to be, would gaming have survived without Nintendo or Sega? Could Atari single handedly have survived the crash and come out prosperous. Or would the world give up on console gaming altogether?

I think if it wasn't for both Nintendo and Sega , we would all be gaming on our PC's and/or Mac's and the graphics would probubly be N64-PS2 visuals right now instead of the next gen stuff we have. No competition would have existed to push the gaming technologies we enjoy today!



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