The Ghost of RubangB said: If you're going to discard Nintendo's success because somebody else would've gotten around to it anyway, then why can't we discard the successes of Atari, Sega, and Sony in the same way?
And Pitfall didn't introduce item collection to platformers. I explained how on the other page in case you missed it. Pitfall took everything from Donkey Kong, including the sound cue that plays when you die. I'm assuming it was a DK tribute.
Arcades survived the game crash because they only cost 25 cents to play. Atari games cost more, and sucked.
We can't discredit Atari because without Atari there never would have been a video game industry since all attempts at making successful home video game systems prior to Atari (Magnavox;s Odyssey and Faairchild's Channel F were abject failures). And without the 2600, Nintendo wouldn't have even had the idea of making more than one game for the NES.
Why are you repeating something you already said? You're starting to sound as robotic as Maxx Steele.
Atari games didn't suck. The 2600's library was much better and more well rounded than anything on the NES. In addition to Pitfall, River Raid, and Enduro that I mentioned before. There were tons of games from Imagic, Atari, more Activision games that rivalled or surpassed anything ever seen on an NES.
Ooh, come'on, the library of the atari is nothing compared to the NES... That's also the reason why Nintendo is still in the console business while atari isn't... U just hate Nintendo lol... You make it sound like it's easy to make gaming popular again... You make it sound like it's easy and 0 risico for Nintendo to make the NES. You sir, are an epic fail.
What are you saying that the 10 games that Nintendo has used to sell systems from NES until today are better than the hundreds of games that made their first appearance on the 2600? I really don't think so. How old were you in 1984 and when did you get your first game system? The NES' game lineup was awful compared to the 2600's and it was awful compared to the PC adventure games from Sierra On-Line and Lucas Arts that were coming out in its lifetime too.
If Metacritic had been around in Atari's days it would have as many games in the worthy of purchase category as the PS2 does while the NES wouldn't have half that number.
