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After the fall of the Atari empire and the video game crash that followed, the future seemed fairly dim for the home video game market. The "fad" had passed and retailers had given up on the industry, leaving gamers to flock to arcades for their gaming fill.
With the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, however, the future again changed... not only for the better, but it also would shape the video gaming industry for years to come. The system would go on to dominate the home video gaming industry for the better part of six years and the term "playing Nintendo" would become synonymous with kids around the world.
What was it about the Nintendo Entertainment System that propelled it to dominance and still makes it a system that many gamers swear by, even today? The answer lies in the games.
Nintendo's game library started out modestly; with some sports games (Baseball, Tennis, and 10-Yard Fight) and some arcade conversions (Kung Fu, Mario Bros., and Super Mario Bros.). The games looked amazingly similar to the arcade games of the time and gamers were able to play near-perfect arcade conversions 'for the first time'.
Nintendo upped the ante with Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, Metroid, and The Legend of Zelda.
Third-party companies like Konami, Capcom, Electronic Arts, Tecmo, and others began to hop on the NES bandwagon. Quality titles like Mega Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Contra, Ninja Gaiden, Marble Madness, and many others. The games were the hook that sold the system, attracting millions. Even today, some of these games are having updates for today's next-generation consoles like the Nintendo Gamecube and Playstation 2.
The NES had something for everyone, and had a vast library of games by the time that the system began its decline in 1991. Family games, Biblical games, sports games, action games, adventure games, role-playing games, game-show games... the NES had them all. The NES began to take a role in pop culture, spawning a movie, cereal, clothing, TV shows, books, magazines, fan clubs, and tournaments. At the height of the NES era, everyone was "playing Nintendo" and loving it. Many gaming veterans today, myself included, still laud the NES for its great games.
One thing is for certain about the NES, as it relates to video gaming history; it re-opened the door for home video gaming and became the benchmark for success in the marketplace.
For those of you that haven't had the NES experience, I highly recommend looking into buying one (I’m serious), possibly from online or from a retro shop. The games are cheap, and the graphics may be primitive by today's standards, but the gameplay is as good now as it was 15 years ago and will never get old.
Go see and in some cases learn. If you consider yourself a Metal Gear Solid fanatic, go and get your hands on all the original's for the NES and learn of the series a little more.
Dated yes, but it will throw entertainment at you by the bucketload.
With the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, however, the future again changed... not only for the better, but it also would shape the video gaming industry for years to come. The system would go on to dominate the home video gaming industry for the better part of six years and the term "playing Nintendo" would become synonymous with kids around the world.
What was it about the Nintendo Entertainment System that propelled it to dominance and still makes it a system that many gamers swear by, even today? The answer lies in the games.
Nintendo's game library started out modestly; with some sports games (Baseball, Tennis, and 10-Yard Fight) and some arcade conversions (Kung Fu, Mario Bros., and Super Mario Bros.). The games looked amazingly similar to the arcade games of the time and gamers were able to play near-perfect arcade conversions 'for the first time'.
Nintendo upped the ante with Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, Metroid, and The Legend of Zelda.
Third-party companies like Konami, Capcom, Electronic Arts, Tecmo, and others began to hop on the NES bandwagon. Quality titles like Mega Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Contra, Ninja Gaiden, Marble Madness, and many others. The games were the hook that sold the system, attracting millions. Even today, some of these games are having updates for today's next-generation consoles like the Nintendo Gamecube and Playstation 2.
The NES had something for everyone, and had a vast library of games by the time that the system began its decline in 1991. Family games, Biblical games, sports games, action games, adventure games, role-playing games, game-show games... the NES had them all. The NES began to take a role in pop culture, spawning a movie, cereal, clothing, TV shows, books, magazines, fan clubs, and tournaments. At the height of the NES era, everyone was "playing Nintendo" and loving it. Many gaming veterans today, myself included, still laud the NES for its great games.
One thing is for certain about the NES, as it relates to video gaming history; it re-opened the door for home video gaming and became the benchmark for success in the marketplace.
For those of you that haven't had the NES experience, I highly recommend looking into buying one (I’m serious), possibly from online or from a retro shop. The games are cheap, and the graphics may be primitive by today's standards, but the gameplay is as good now as it was 15 years ago and will never get old.
Go see and in some cases learn. If you consider yourself a Metal Gear Solid fanatic, go and get your hands on all the original's for the NES and learn of the series a little more.
Dated yes, but it will throw entertainment at you by the bucketload.
You could say the same about Excitebike 64, with the original NES Game bundled in.
They're doing so, although not on the Gamecube.
Mario Advance on the GBA.
I bet Sony and Microsoft would give anything to be able to do that! :-D
Mario Advance on the GBA.
I bet Sony and Microsoft would give anything to be able to do that! :-D
They'd sell one a piece for £34.99
It would be great, but it wouldn't happen.
Unfortunately.
Unfortunately.
Wouldnt It be graet for Nintendo to fit all the NES Games onto a GC Disk?
It was still based around the past.
Don't worry, if every post in here had to be about the Future of Gaming then the forum would almost be empty.
Hence it's more Prime now.
Don't worry, if every post in here had to be about the Future of Gaming then the forum would almost be empty.
Hence it's more Prime now.
Yes but if you read it, I mention games in the future that will be 'updates' of the many NES Titles.
I cant help but notice too, that no sooner do I post a NES Topic, that a few others post their version too of 'retroness'.
I cant help but notice too, that no sooner do I post a NES Topic, that a few others post their version too of 'retroness'.
And hence it's now the future of gaming...
Hang on... ;-D
I suppose this forum is more Prime than FoG these days! :-)
Hang on... ;-D
I suppose this forum is more Prime than FoG these days! :-)
After the fall of the Atari empire and the video game crash that followed, the future seemed fairly dim for the home video game market. The "fad" had passed and retailers had given up on the industry, leaving gamers to flock to arcades for their gaming fill.
With the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, however, the future again changed... not only for the better, but it also would shape the video gaming industry for years to come. The system would go on to dominate the home video gaming industry for the better part of six years and the term "playing Nintendo" would become synonymous with kids around the world.
What was it about the Nintendo Entertainment System that propelled it to dominance and still makes it a system that many gamers swear by, even today? The answer lies in the games.
Nintendo's game library started out modestly; with some sports games (Baseball, Tennis, and 10-Yard Fight) and some arcade conversions (Kung Fu, Mario Bros., and Super Mario Bros.). The games looked amazingly similar to the arcade games of the time and gamers were able to play near-perfect arcade conversions 'for the first time'.
Nintendo upped the ante with Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, Metroid, and The Legend of Zelda.
Third-party companies like Konami, Capcom, Electronic Arts, Tecmo, and others began to hop on the NES bandwagon. Quality titles like Mega Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Contra, Ninja Gaiden, Marble Madness, and many others. The games were the hook that sold the system, attracting millions. Even today, some of these games are having updates for today's next-generation consoles like the Nintendo Gamecube and Playstation 2.
The NES had something for everyone, and had a vast library of games by the time that the system began its decline in 1991. Family games, Biblical games, sports games, action games, adventure games, role-playing games, game-show games... the NES had them all. The NES began to take a role in pop culture, spawning a movie, cereal, clothing, TV shows, books, magazines, fan clubs, and tournaments. At the height of the NES era, everyone was "playing Nintendo" and loving it. Many gaming veterans today, myself included, still laud the NES for its great games.
One thing is for certain about the NES, as it relates to video gaming history; it re-opened the door for home video gaming and became the benchmark for success in the marketplace.
For those of you that haven't had the NES experience, I highly recommend looking into buying one (I’m serious), possibly from online or from a retro shop. The games are cheap, and the graphics may be primitive by today's standards, but the gameplay is as good now as it was 15 years ago and will never get old.
Go see and in some cases learn. If you consider yourself a Metal Gear Solid fanatic, go and get your hands on all the original's for the NES and learn of the series a little more.
Dated yes, but it will throw entertainment at you by the bucketload.
With the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, however, the future again changed... not only for the better, but it also would shape the video gaming industry for years to come. The system would go on to dominate the home video gaming industry for the better part of six years and the term "playing Nintendo" would become synonymous with kids around the world.
What was it about the Nintendo Entertainment System that propelled it to dominance and still makes it a system that many gamers swear by, even today? The answer lies in the games.
Nintendo's game library started out modestly; with some sports games (Baseball, Tennis, and 10-Yard Fight) and some arcade conversions (Kung Fu, Mario Bros., and Super Mario Bros.). The games looked amazingly similar to the arcade games of the time and gamers were able to play near-perfect arcade conversions 'for the first time'.
Nintendo upped the ante with Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, Metroid, and The Legend of Zelda.
Third-party companies like Konami, Capcom, Electronic Arts, Tecmo, and others began to hop on the NES bandwagon. Quality titles like Mega Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Contra, Ninja Gaiden, Marble Madness, and many others. The games were the hook that sold the system, attracting millions. Even today, some of these games are having updates for today's next-generation consoles like the Nintendo Gamecube and Playstation 2.
The NES had something for everyone, and had a vast library of games by the time that the system began its decline in 1991. Family games, Biblical games, sports games, action games, adventure games, role-playing games, game-show games... the NES had them all. The NES began to take a role in pop culture, spawning a movie, cereal, clothing, TV shows, books, magazines, fan clubs, and tournaments. At the height of the NES era, everyone was "playing Nintendo" and loving it. Many gaming veterans today, myself included, still laud the NES for its great games.
One thing is for certain about the NES, as it relates to video gaming history; it re-opened the door for home video gaming and became the benchmark for success in the marketplace.
For those of you that haven't had the NES experience, I highly recommend looking into buying one (I’m serious), possibly from online or from a retro shop. The games are cheap, and the graphics may be primitive by today's standards, but the gameplay is as good now as it was 15 years ago and will never get old.
Go see and in some cases learn. If you consider yourself a Metal Gear Solid fanatic, go and get your hands on all the original's for the NES and learn of the series a little more.
Dated yes, but it will throw entertainment at you by the bucketload.