How Nintendo Conquered America in the 1980s with the Nintendo Entertainment System
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2020
- In 1983 the US home game console market collapsed, contracting around 93 percent and putting dozens of major companies out of business. The conventional wisdom was that the home game console market was finished, and would never rise again.
But a century old Japanese company that was originally founded to manufacture and sell playing cards thought otherwise. Their name was Nintendo and their successful reinvigorating of the US game console market with the 1985 American release of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is a fascinating tale of shrewd business practices, a willingness to defy expectations, and a company that wasn't afraid to try new things.
We had some mic trouble with this that we didn't catch initially, but we hope this doesn't detract from your enjoyment of this video, it's a fascinating topic and one that we have been looking forward to bringing to you.
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I really hope you blow up in yt! You honestly deserve more
Appreciate the compliment! Slow and steady wins the race 😁
Great video! It would be really awesome if you could do a video on the SEGA Genesis? I was 10 when I got my first Nintendo, I remember the huge rivalry between the two companies.
It is a good story of how they briefly dethroned Nintendo.
We may make a video on it in the future.
Thanks for watching
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No problem, I think your channel is great. All your videos are very interesting and intriguing, I learn something new in every one.
Excellent video!
Thanks for watching
How intoxicated were you during the recording of the voice for this video?
Console Wars is a book I love, always enjoy hearing about this era. Released just before I was born... My childhood let's me juuuust barely have nostalgia for the 80s. And 80s tech is just perfect.
It is a great book. 80s tech was something special and I think many people miss the simplicity of it.
Thanks for watching
This really helped out with one of my project thanks 😊
Glad to hear it.
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Keep It up
Appreciate it. Thanks for watching !
Another excellent vid B)
Thanks!
Glad you liked it
My family got this upon initial release back in 1985 when I was like....9 years old; with the robot and light gun as well. It was pretty damn amazing because Atari and Coleco frankly sucked by the mid 80's, and PC gaming was not really a thing yet. Unless you count the C64, which was also getting dated by 1985-86. The graphics blew us away, and it was fun having arcade games like Super Mario Bros on home console, or Duck Hunt. I am pretty sure the success of the NES drew Sega into the market with their (also) good Master System. And that continued well into the 90's, the heat between Nintendo and Sega. The NES still has some favorites like: Punch Out, SMB 1 and 3, Ninja Gaiden (tough but fun), Double Dragon, Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda (1)...on and on. Thanks for the video. Really hit the nostalgia spot for me. You can emulate this stuff and there are USB replications for the controllers, but it isn't quite the same as playing the actual console, and the resolution was meant for CRT, not LED screens.
Seeing your story it’s clear how the NES single handedly saved gaming in the US through a superior gaming experience.
Would you be interested in a part 2 looking at Sega Genesis vs NES ?
Thanks for watching!
1. Super Mario Bros. was never an arcade game
2. Sega dropped their SG-1000 console on the same day (15. July 1983) as Nintendo released the Famicom. So Sega entered the console market regardless of Nintendo.
3. Total nonsense about CRT and LED. If anything, the games look a ton better on a LED screen than a flickery, scanlined to hell CRT with color bleeding and all the other issues that outdated technology has (even worse if you lived in Burgerland and never got to experience RGB Scart, instead having to use crap like RCA and RF connectors, which added even more color bleed, washed out colors and interference)
Atari 2600 could display more than 52 colors I believe.
If only the North American NES would have been a top loader (like the Japanese Famicom), it would have been even better. That front loading spring mechanism on the NES became problematic. They should have just stuck with the Famicom design but with the casing in black and gray instead of red and white. The Sega Master System looked more modern and better designed.
The only challenge Nintendo can not pass: hire a female executive.