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Everyone's favorite tagline is how the Famicom saved the video game industry.
Discuss everyone. :)
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http://www.arstechnica.com/gaming/20...30th-birthday/
Everyone's favorite tagline is how the Famicom saved the video game industry.
Discuss everyone. :)
Before anyone decides to respond to the OP's question, the question that needs to be answered first is how the Famicom system saved the video game industry (since this question is at the argument).
Almost forgot ... Happy 30th birthday Famicom! :)
at least ars aknowledges atari
unlike a recent top 10
Seems like every gaming forum had one of those thread, was wondering when it would appear here :p
And... Did it really save an industry? Or did it rather use the fact that the industry had crashed to fill the void?
^ isnt that the same thing really ?
the american video game market crashed nintendo saw a void and swooped in to fill it
now in just 2 short years the frontloader nes will be 30 years old
and in 5 years the megadrive will be 30 too
Kind of shocking to think the Atari 2600 is 36 years old in 2013. 4 more years and it hits the big four-oh.
Let's see what consoles and add ons of mine still work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guntz
Atari 2600. Check.
Atari 7800. Check.
FL NES. Died in 1995, traded a SMS for it in 1988.
Atari Lynx II. Check. Gave it to friend.
Genesis 1989. Check. Add On Sega CD 1992. Check. Add On 32 X 1994. Check.
SNES 1992. Idk I sold it for cigarettes and sf2sce money.
Saturn. Check.
PS. Worked but I had to turn upside down to function.
PSOne with LCD screen. Check. (Sold). I can play Tekken 3 and others with DC Bleemcast and the games look better.
Dreamcast. Check.
XBox. Check.
PS2. Lens died after I bought it on 2nd day. Traded it in for another new one. Again lens problem. Not dumb enough to get a 3rd one.
360. Ring of death.
I've only ever owned a couple 2600 Jr. systems and a Coleco Gemini (1986 and 1983?), but I have some 1977 launch carts and they still work.
I've only had a few consoles actually die in my care. Off the top of my head, a few Gamecubes have worn out, but I've replaced their lasers. Most either worked from the day I got them, or I repaired them upon purchase.
Cool Guntz.
Yep I will be the first to tell you how our DAY was the best DAYS to live life on earth ever.
Now how can they top our life when we had so many great things occur during it.
I'm happy not to have bought into Ps3/X-box now, I don't see how There will even be any left for future retro gamers, unless our dinosaur systems outlast even them.:D
Yep just like the after the monday wrestling wars, its all downhill from here.
I wouldn't say im happy about things getting old, but I guess that means it has survived time.
When my genesis turns 30, I will make a short video of it along with my almost 40 year old 2600 working and reply in some "my ps2 died again !" or "my other 360 just gave me the ring of death !" videos. They will wonder "why is this retard posting this here" yet be blind to the obvious, I can still play my games on a 30 year or 40 year old system and those only lasted only a decade, if that.
They don't make ERA's like this, like they used to.
Hey at least sooner or later the new systems get hacked so you can play great games from the past on them......while they still work that is.:p
I am curious as to how long lead-solder reballed 360/ps3 can live though. Ive seen accounts stating that they still break, other stating that it is the permanent fix.
I guess It is too soon to truly judge this hardware in the long term. Still, I cannot see it outliving old tech.
Well, this thread is already starting to go off topic. I guess I got to comment some on the NES saving the Industry thing.
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Ok, what happened is obviously that there was just too many consoles and too many games and many consoles AND games also sucked. So people at some point went "Fuck that shit!" and it crashed.
Ok we all know that right? If you ask me this was actually a healthy thing, It cleared the crap away. Good riddance.
But then, at the heart of the crash people were still putting monies in interactive electronics, for instance 84-85 were good years for Commodore 64 sales. So it was a home console crash but then home computers fared a little better. Even though this market was affected too, it was not as bad.
Then when Nintendo Came, the home console market was just like open to them. They also had pretty damn good hardware at the time. They also got smart and did not repeat many of the mistakes of their predecessor. They learned from it and did things like "Strict software quality control".
Hence the installment of the Official Nintendo Quality seal stuff which made it looks like the precious.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...of_quality.jpg
So basically they had a good opportunity and they did the right things to take advantage of it. There is also this interesting story about how they penetrated the market with the "world of wonder" distribution deal, which was a pretty crazy bold move. But hell did it work.