Why Did the NES Succeed When Everyone Else Failed?

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  @tedah_riagrimi · 1 year ago · pinned

  Hit me right in the childhood with this one ❤

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• FR

  @Froggievilleus · 1 year ago

  Nintendo really dodged a bullet by not working with Atari.

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• ST

  @stephenmclemore7614 · 5 months ago

  My best christmas present ever... those hard sharp buttons were blisters waiting to happen..

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  @atariboy9084 · 1 year ago

  On Nov 23rd 1985 at age 13 I saved up to buy my very first gaming console with my own. At NYC in 1985 where me and my mother gone to 14th street and that same block where I got the NES Deluxe unit at the Woolworth store then the store closed in 97. The NES Deluxe Set was test market in NYC in Oct of 85 and one month later on my birthday on a Saturday afternoon. The same day I got the NES Deluxe Set for my birthday me and my mother gone and ate at Blimpies on northwest corner of 14th Street and 1st Avenue NYC (think of Subway before it was a thing) and I open one of the games and it was Super Mario Bros. Sadly Blimpies is no longer there.

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• NI

  @NineteenEightyFive · 1 year ago

  I really don't mind the AI voice but "field programmable Gatorade technology" is hilarious 😂

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  @Tr0nzoid · 5 months ago

  By the time I got my basic Control Deck set in early 1988 for $79.99 (without the Zapper), it did not include Super Mario Brothers but a Player&apos;s Guide. I had to get &quot;Super Mario Brothers&quot; separately.<br>That Player&apos;s Guide, however, sparked my interest in &quot;Metroid&quot; because it had the game&apos;s full map.

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  @whitetylerperry · 1 year ago

  I remember I had a friend who had the top down NES and he hated the dog bone controllers so we traded. I ended up falling in love with how much more comfortable they were and could never understand his gripe with them lol.

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  @ashleyjohnson9695 · 10 months ago

  Big fan of all your videos! Keep up the good work.

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  @johnlarson505 · 9 months ago

  Every kid I knew in the 80s had a Nintendo. &nbsp;I don’t know anyone that had the robot.

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  @whiteknight420 · 1 year ago

  Tecmo Bowl released as an Arcade game in 1987. <br>Released for the NES in 1989.

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  @Nathan-raimmy · 5 months ago

  Castlevania 3 was so fun. &nbsp;miss that game. &nbsp;and final fantasy blew my mind. &nbsp;so fun

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  @hawaiidkw1 · 1 year ago

  Nobody wants to hear this, but... it was the variety. Nintendo <i>knew</i> they couldn&apos;t count on just Contra, or Super Mario Bros. 3, or Ninja Gaiden, or Tecmo Bowl, or Mike Tyson&apos;s Punch-Out, or Legend of Zelda, or Metroid, because there were plenty of players who didn&apos;t like fast-paced platformers or fantasy RPGs or football or space shooters. But you have <i>every</i> mainstream genre <i>and</i> plenty of quirky offshoots like City Connection, Wall Street Kid, Excitebike, Kid Icarus, Rollergames, Nuts &amp; Milk, and Monster Party, and there&apos;s something for everybody.

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