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SvennoJ on 10 July 2020
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Nautilus said:
SvennoJ said:

More popular sure.

Looking at best sellers, Populous released '89 on Amiga sold about 4 million copies, Super mario world released '90 sold about 20 million copies.
Myst, best selling PC game until the sims, sold 6 million copies.
Kings Quest V only sold half a million copies and was actually also released on the NES (but censored for violence and religious themes)

Save gaming, nah. Make it more popular, yes they did. They made it more kid friendly as well.

Yeah... It did save gaming, for sure.

As said before, if Nintendo didn't do it, someone else would, as entertainment is part of human culture. But many gaming companies went bankrupt at the time, and everything seemed bleak, then Nintendo came and proved once and for all that gaming had a future.

Myst, the game you kept going on about?It first launched in 1993 on MAC, many years AFTER Nintendo already launched the NES and saved gaming. Hell, the Super Nintendo was already out. Nintendo already brought back the industry and made it more popular than ever before that game you went on. The same was for this Populous.It launched way after the NES hit stores shelves everywhere, since the NES launched in 85 in the Americas and 86 in Europe. By then, the reputation to gaming was already restored and was already walking into it was today, so of course those games did well.

All your examples came after Nintendo fixed everything up. So yeah, they saved gaming.

So Nintendo fixed Amiga 500 sales and started Bullfrog so they could produce Populous...
They also fixed Sierra online so they could keep producing mainly PC adventures like they were doing before the 'crash'

Sierra entertainment was founded in 1979, Bullfrog in 1987 but they didn't develop for the NES, it was licensed to be ported to the SNES after the game had won awards and proved to be successful. Same happened to Metal Gear, success first then ported to the NES (drastically altered btw)

Lucasfilm games was doing fine as well (Maniac mansion) also got ported to the NES later (A port for the Nintendo Entertainment System had to be reworked heavily, in response to complaints by Nintendo of America that the game was inappropriate for children)

NES got a lot of (mangled) ports from already successful games. Great save!