Shadow1980 said:
I remember those days. I actually did get my NES on Christmas Day 1988, and I was engrossed by it. I was all Nintendo, all the time. I had a Mario lunchbox, ate Nintendo cereal, and read Nintendo Power magazines until they started to fall apart. Even before then, I knew all about it. Friends at school talked about it. I had played it with friends outside of school. I still remember seeing an NES in action for the first time probably back in '87 and thinking it was the coolest thing ever. The NES was the hottest thing around back then for us young Gen X-ers. From 1987 to 1990, "Nintendo" was synonymous with video games. Those of us old enough to remember those days remember how dominant Nintendo was. It wasn't until around the time Sonic came out that Nintendo had any real competition from Sega, and even then Nintendo was still hugely popular and still had the support of most major third parties of the time, the SNES producing just as many games that would go on to remain among the best ever. |
Thanks for sharing that story. It brought back some good memories. It stands as evidence against the absurd idea that 2017 was Nintendo's best ever. There's no way anyone would say that if they either engrossed themselves in the history of the industry or lived through it. And even if a younger person DID study everything, they would only at best be able to agree with us. You really just had to be there to understand how popular and dominant Nintendo was.
