Shadow1980 said:
Now, would video games still exist in some form? Probably, but the market would be vastly different. "Home computers" like the Commodore/Amiga, MSX, and ZX Spectrum would probably retain some kind of relevance, and they would likely still have given way to PCs in the early 90s after Windows 3.0 was released. Whether those would have become as mainstream as consoles is anyone's guess. Arcades would likely have stuck around and may have retained relevance to this day in the West. But without the NES, which had become the face of gaming in America and Japan in the latter half of the 80s, game design itself may have taken an entirely different path. Platformers especially may have never been popular without SMB to revolutionize the genre. Other genre-defining/-redefining/-popularizing games released first on consoles (e.g., Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, GTA3, Halo) may have never been made. So, the NES may or may not have saved gaming in general, but it did save console gaming and its success laid the groundwork for everything that followed. Our hobby may still have existed without it in an alternate NES-less timeline, but it would likely seem utterly alien to someone from our timeline. |
Don't even bother with this guy. I've NEVER seen him write anything positive bout Nintendo. It's a lost cause and you'l only waste your time and energy on him. Let it go man. Let it go.
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Furthermore, I think VGChartz should add a "Like"-button.