fun fact

[Adriel]

There was a pretty cool article about the NES. It was the game system that ended the northe american video game crisis of 1983. Heres the full article.

North American video game crash of 1983 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Waterworld]

Yeah I remember watching a show about the history of video games. Atari had run video games into the ground in the US. Mostly due to the fact that they just allowed anyone to make any game for there system. thus you end up with a lot of crap games.

Then the trading card company Nintendo showed up on our shore line. Most people counted them down and out. They used a lot of tricks to try and sell there system at first (like R.O.B.) but most stores didnt want anything to do with more video game systems. Over all I am just happy that they stuck with it and Mario and the NES took the world by storm. Had that not happen god only knows where video games would be today


Hey here is a fun fact for everyone in 1963 Nintendo was in the business of running a chain of sleazy Love Hotels. this was just after they stoped selling instant rice and just before they started there own Taxi firm. I guess you can say that Nintendo has done a little bit of everything

[Adriel]

yeah, lol, it's funny to think that there is a crisis in the video game industry.