Shigeru Miyamoto:Father of the gaming industry??

[jalsonmi]

Played_Out said:
Did the internet survive the bursting of the .com bubble?

The videogame crash of 1983 was the exact same situation. It only affected America and it was the direct result of over-eager investors and their goldrush mentality.

Any industry that experiences such rapid growth is bound to crash eventually. Such expansion is just not sustainable.

Also, it is fair to say that the NES would have been just as successful with or without Miyamoto. Their was certainly no cult of personality around developers then like there is now, and the NES didn't have any significant competition until the Master System arrived on the scene.

@ BringBackChrono
Games on the 2600 may have been inferior to games on the NES, but Nintendo didn't make "better" games than Atari. If you look at the arcade games Atari were making at the time you will see that they were considerably more innovative than Nintendo, or pretty much anyone else for that matter. In those days the arcade side of the business was the biggest earner and got all the best games.

It's pretty hard to say Nintendo would have been just as successful without Miyamoto considering the way things went.

The game that put Nintendo on the map was Donkey Kong, which was of course the first game Miyamoto created. It was the first ever game with a story (howevertiny that story seems nowadays) and the first ever game with different stages. Those are both pretty fucking huge.

The phenomenon that was the NES was largely based around Super Mario Bros. Obviously other games became big as well, but that is what made the Famicom/NES the system it was. Without it, the NES probably languishes on the shelves back in those aforementioned days at the one NY store. Of course the cult of personality didn't exist back then. SB is what created that cult in the first place.

If the arcade was the biggest earner, why did Atari go backrupt and have to be sold a few times before eventually disappearing into nothing? Hell, considering the bath Atari took with the 2600, I'd say arcade was the bigest earner by default. And really, since we're basicaly talking pre-NES it's pretty much besides the point.

In the mid-80s, I had a 7800, not an NES. The 7800 was known for how good it's arcade posts were, but even at 7 years old I knew I was missing something by having it instead of the NES.