| pokoko said: Gaming was not dead. I have no idea what you're talking about there. Arcades did not die and, quite honestly, the popularity of arcades in Japan is why the home console industry rose again and would have done so even without Nintendo. Also, if you're saying that nothing that came later in the industry was inspired by Space Invaders or Pac-man ... well, there really isn't anything else to say to that, because that's ridiculous. |
Gaming was dead the crash happened and 90% of developers went under, arcades were seen as a fad that wouldn't last in the long run especially with developers going under. Japan never experienced the crash because gaming was new over there as opposed to the west where it had been around for over a decade, the NES launched in 1983 in Japan after the huge success of Donkey Kong in arcades which launched around the same period as Pacman (1980) so even then what you're trying to argue still ignores many aspects.
1983 was when the crash took hold but Japan had the NES launch that same year which is the first modern console and averted the problem, in the west for the two years leading up to the NES' launch gaming evaporated and consumer interest was at negative.
