What are some of the biggest myths in video gaming?

[oniyide]

Chubomik said:

Groundking said:

Then explain why PC gaming was, and still is, so large in Europe? You talk utter tripe. The NES did nothing for gaming, other than bringing the classic Nintendo IP's to the world.

All this talk about PC games still being big and I'm just thinking, "Okay?" 

The kinds of games you got on NES were way different than what you got on computers at the time. I'm positive that you would have never seen a game like Super Mario Bros on a Commodore or Apple II or whatever. A game that probably get's brought up too much but I'll do it anyway: The Legend of Zelda. Look, I'm not going to say it's a perfect masterpiece that should be held up on a pedestal. But you cannot deny that game's impact. Nobody really saw games like that at the time. An objective and an end without high-scores or lives. Could you honestly say that games today would be the same without big N?

ill give you Zelda but im pretty sure there were platform games before Super Mario

IMHO if it wasnt Ninty it would have been someone else. Now there is no way to prove that false or otherwise and it doesnt take away from the impact Ninty had