Welcome, and thank you for flying with 1987 Airlines. Please be advised that things are going to get hectic soon, so please fasten your wrist straps and return your Wii Remotes to a sideways position.
Our first stop on our tour through this curious year of bad hair and worse fashion sense is a store selling Nintendo games. Here, we can see the Nintendo Entertainment System is selling like wildfire, as it has been for the last year and a half. If you'll follow me, we can look at the games section. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot available right now, but if you take a flight with our sister airline, 1988 Airlines, you'll discover that this situation changes drastically within only 12 months as new developers emerge and try releasing their titles on this rising star of video game systems. As for now, most of the titles available are from Nintendo and other Japanese companies that have been developing for the system since as far back as 1984.
Next up on our tour is the computer game store. Well, this certainly looks much more lively, doesn't it? There's games all over the place, from lots of big-name developers of the time. Here we have Psygnosis, Mirrorsoft, Mindscape... Not many of these may sound familiar to you if you're not well-versed in history, as many of them collapsed around the mid-1990s, while others were absorbed by more successful companies as an effort to deal with their losses. But just look at their reputations! Why, Mirrorsoft recently even released Tetris on the PC, a sure hit! As you can see, releasing quality software doesn't guarantee survival for any company.
This concludes our flight, and so we return you now to 2008. Thank you for flying with 1987 Airlines. We hope you've enjoyed your flight, and encourage you to fly with us again!
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