Its been said often that without the NES ,and more importantly, super mario bros, the american crash 1983 would have marked the end of the gaming console industry.

so how many of you agree to that ,and how many feel that without Miyamoto san and SMB, the industry would have just evolved differently(directly going to mature themed games as one possibility)?

your views

PC would have done the trick. Nes would probably have worked without miya but with less ease (mario and duck hunt where the big games for my sisters and parents... I was the only one playing anything else).

Though I personnaly picked up a NES because i was intoxicated by playing my cousin's Zelda over the summer, so I'm a miyamoto fan all the way.

well,

you can't say for sure that the gaming industry wouldn't have taken off later in time if Miyamoto and Nintendo wouldn't have done the job at that time

and Atari should be getting more credit for it's role in this history

eventhough that if they hadn't get in so much trouble in the early 80's
Nintendo wouldn't have even made the NES on it's own
because the original plan was that Atari would make the Famicom and publish it, while Nintendo would get royalties for it's developed games

but that never happened

yes, he save the industry.

The 1983 crash would have marked the end of the console gaming industry? Only in America perhaps. The Famicom in Japan and the Sega Master System in Europe were successful regardless of what happened in America.

But even if the NES was not released in the States, something would have emerged to fill the void. Perhaps the conditions were ripe because of the crash, given that it left Nintendo without any real competition.

Ajax

im aware of the deal and how atari suffered the brunt of the crash

but i tend to look at it more like natural selection.the games atari made were not as good as the nes games. 

but its true,the crash might have been a blessing in disguise for nintendo.forced them into making one of the most successful consoles ever.and influence-wise,maybe the most successful.

yes-he is the best and the one who rescued gaming

Father i don't know. He's basically the Michael Jordan of the videogame industry though.

Due to his talent and the time he came up he's basically the one everyone else will be compared to.

Michael Jordan might not be the best analogy--Babe Ruth I think makes more sense.

Right after the Black Sox scandal MLB was reeling and in crisis, possibly on the brink of folding. Fewer people were going to games and whole infrastructure for MLB ws incredibly weak. Enter this guy destroying the ball and hitting home runs in numbers greater than some teams as a whole were doing. Attendance got hiked, home runs became a thing around the game as a whole leading to more attendance hike, and people allowed themselves to put the scandal in the past. Saved the game, Ruth did.

This analogy works pretty damn well when used with Miyamoto/Nintendo and the Great Video Game Crash.