| Nickelbackro said: Computer Gaming would have ruled, and the game systems would be like the Commodore 64, computers hooked to TVs, which would be a lot less popular. |
...because consoles aren't computers hooked to TVs, right?
The good side of Nintendo's accomplishments - we wouldn't have a Japanese domination of the industry, which would be bad given how uninspired western games are for at least the last decade.
The bad side - home computers market. Had Commodore and Atari been more popular in their time (and they would, had Nintendo not existed), the all-purpose, "multimedia" machines would become a standard a lot, lot earlier than the latter part of the nineties, and maybe, just maybe, they'd evolve into what consoles are trying to become now (fully-fledged, easy to use enternainment systems with the full capabilities of a personal computer). No goddamn Windows anywhere near your home, how would that be a bad thing?
