Mandalore76 said:
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. |
Well, yeah. I guess NES deserves more credit for being a system that resuscitated the US console market, based on a strong lineup of games and not being trash. I know I loved it. I just still feel that the NES was being a touted as a child's toy still (since it was introduced that way outside of Japan), and didn't quite set console gaming as the true juggernaut it was going to be at that point.