What are some of the biggest myths in video gaming?

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Ruler said:

McDonaldsGuy said:

Nintendo has saved gaming twice though:

- NES: due to the seal of quality, it helped prevent another gaming crash. Also made gaming more mainstream and its games are the basis of gaming today. Super Mario Bros. was loads more advanced than Pitfall, Zelda was entirely new pretty much, etc. etc.

- Wii: Gaming was becoming stagnant, and gamers were getting stereotyped hard. Wii opened it up to a whole new audience and made gaming truly mainstream. Continues today with smartphones now.

Gaming was alive in arcades and homecomputers at the time, nintendo hasnt saved anything other than console gaming

Hope you don't mind me asking, but what kind of games were most popular around the time of Apple II or Commodore 64?