mike_intellivision said:
The Atari Home Entertainment System took America by storm in 1985. Replicating the model used a decade before, Atari went back to Sears' Sporting Goods departments with its latest contraption -- a dark box resembling a toaster that played game.s Once it proved the concept, it unleashed its design studios to fully support the AHES -- supplementing the Nintendo offerings with unique games such as Ballblazer and Xevious (games originally planned for the now scrapped Atari 7800) as well as the only home versions of popular computer games like Mean 18 Golf. It also put all of its arcade hits on the AHES -- such as RBI Baseball as well as games from its ST computer series such as Plutos. The partnership benefitted both companies initally. Atari remained the name for video games in the US while elsewhere the Nintendo FC and Nintendo NES were king. And other than token opposition from Sega and NEC, the playing field belonged to these giants. It reached a point though that the relationship began to fray about 1990. Atari mangement wanted more control over the SuperNES/Super Atari. Eventually, its management was ousted in a proxy fight and Atari became the North American subsidiary of Nintendo. It has remained that to this day, though mostly as a second-party software producer as Nintendo has released its consoles in the US under its own name since 1992.
Mike from Morgantown |
I disgree.
It is more likely that NES ( or how Atari would rebrand it ) would fail. Atari at that time didn't believe in console gaming anymore so I don't think they had the will, motivation or skill to recreate the console gaming market in US thus giving at the future of gaming a more "home-computer"-like connotation.
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