NightlyPoe said:
I'm more or less the perfect age for a Nintendo fan growing up in their age of dominance in the 80s-90s. This is certainly up there and I don't believe it's hyperbole to rate it near the top. Only one year makes the case truly difficult. 1986 when they gave birth to Zelda, Metroid, and Kid Icarus as well as being the year that the NES began to truly dominate the United States market. Plus a second Super Mario Bros. game came out. In Zelda and Metroid they had two games that would serve as the prototypes to what would become popular genres, and additionally Dragon Quest came to the Famicon that year and jump-started a third. Other years have been truly great. But I believe that I would rank 2017 as the second best year the company has ever had behind 1986. |
The NES had a higher marketshare than PS2. It's still the most dominant home console of all time... easily. As kids, we were all eating Nintendo cereal, wearing Nintendo shirts, playing Nintendo games, watching Nintendo cartoons. Nintendo, like I said earlier, was gaming personified. It was a pop culture phenomenon.
Do you honestly think the company is even close to that now? If so, I find it hard to imagine you were old enough to have experienced that era. I was. There's no contest.
