The Anarchyz on 25 July 2008
| bdbdbd said: @The Anarchyz: It started when Shigeru made a game (in surveillance of Gumpei Yokoi) about a moustached carpenter, who was supposed to save a girl from a big ape. Donkey Kong was Nintendos first phenomenon, SMB came years later (although, it was just as phenomenical). |
Donkey Kong is the first appearance of Mario and Nintendo's first phenomenon (also made by Shigeru), we agree in that, but Donkey Kong was not the game that sold its way to the restoration of gaming on the US, all the retailer stores had the NES+SMB package, and the display on the stores was SMB... Donkey Kong was first, just like Pong or Asteroids were first, but the restoration of gaming after the crash were thanks to the NES and SMB...
