| PAOerfulone said: No NES? Guess what: |
Why no Mario without NES? The Mario series was started in 1983 on Arcade, not on the NES. And as almost any popular Arcade franchise, it was ported to a lot of home systems, f.e. Atari 2600 in 1983 and Apple 2 in 1984. And the same goes for Donkey Kong.
So even if Nintendo had decided to not enter the home console hardware business, they probably still would have made a lot of games for Arcades and later for other home systems.
Why no Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest without NES? Most RPG games weren't suited to Arcades due to their longer playtime and more complex gameplay... but if Nintendo had decided to not enter the home console hardware business, Square + Enix would have released these games on other popular systems, f.e. MSX, FM-7, C-64 and home consoles which would have filled the vacuum instead of the NES.
Why no Call of Duty and Halo? These genres were born on powerful PCs. The first CoD was launched for PC and Halo was planned for Mac.
Just a few examples... most games would have been developed even without the NES.
