RJ_Sizzle said:
There were other consoles around at the time. Even Atari was still around after the great "crash". it's just the Famicom was imported, repurposed and came in at the right time to take off internationally. I'll say the most important console is the one that escewed cartridges as a format for discs, saving a ton of costs for devs who could put that money back into their games. The dawn of AAA development if you will. The second most important is the one that established online gaming to the masses as a norm. |
The major US players at the time of the Crash: Atari, Coleco, & Mattel were all effectively killed by the Crash. Mattel sold off the Intellivision line in 1984 due to the Crash. Coleco Industries left electronics all together and went bankrupt Atari may have still been around, but it was not the Warner Communications owned Atari (1976-1984). That Atari died in the Crash and was sold by Warner to Jack Tramiel. That Atari was more focused on home computers. The Atari 7800 they released in 1986 to compete with the NES never had a chance, because the console was developed in 1983 for launch in '84, which never happened because of the Crash. I got a 7800 for Christmas in 1987 and remember being severely unimpressed with it having already seen Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda on the NES in other people's homes. We got an NES the following Christmas.
