It’s absolutely a myth. I’d say NES advanced gaming and win teased the bar for commercial success of dedicated platforms. But saying “Nintendo saved gaming” is hyperbolic nonsense.
I’ve been a Nintendo fan since about the beginning, but there were clearly other platforms popular around that time, Vic 20 and C64 for starters. Granting Nintendo this sort of messiah status is silly. This reminds me of people claiming Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition was a full remake; they had to make up the myth of it being something different than what it actually was. Silly fanboyism. We as Nintendo fans don’t need fiction/lies to make it sound greater than it was - what Nintendo achieved with the NES was already phenomenal.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
