@ hunter_alien
As far as I knew, the story went that after the abominable failure before the NES, the situation was so bad that retailers refused to stock anything related to video games owing to how badly burned they'd been before. Nintendo had to invent gyromite as a robot add-on because it was the only way under which shops would consider carrying video-games.
Nintendo did US focus tests on Super Mario Brothers, and eight-year-olds were denouncing it, and I practically quote "this is a piece of shit". This was the attitude they were fighting.
The mere IDEA of gaming had become the preserve of uber-geeks waggling joysticks in their parent's garage.
Gaming was certainly on the way out, and the world wasn't about to let it back in. It took Nintendo fighting against every piece of advice, analyst and big corporation to drag gaming kicking and screaming back into the forefront, and it took their unique vision to see it could be sold as a fun toy to kids, rather than remain the preserve of freaks and geeks. Sure, anyone with that much balls could do it, but the fact is, after the many failures before, no one would, no one did, and no one thought ANYONE ever could again.
Formerly Bugmenot, (mostly) I'm now reformed and adopting a more concrete persona upon ioi's request.
I'm not new here and had 147 posts to my (our) name - not that anyone noticed.
