Revival of the Videogame Industry: A Nintendo Story

The Early Videogame Era

In the late 70s to the early 80s, there were many great videogame consoles released in the U.S., many of them introduced ground breaking games that are considered simple, classic, and fun such as Pac-Man, Pong, Galaga, and Missile Command which are made for videogame consoles like Atari 2600, the Vectrex, Odyssey and Odyssey II, Intellivision and Intellivision II as well as Colecovision, many of these consoles are made by the people at Atari while others came from manufacturers such as Magnavox, Milton Bradley, Coleco, and Intellivision and had created one of the most important market in the electronic industry, the videogame market. Unfortunely, by the mid-80s, these manufacturers had become so anxious in the videogame market that many outside companies, many of which had nothing to do with videogames jump in to produced videogame based title on their own product using it as advertisement instead of quality game play. As more and more outside companies jump in and the games started getting produced once every minute, the more the products came, the badder the gaming industry gets and it had become so worst that soon consumers started seeing the gaming industry as a joke or a flop. Some think the gaming industry had become nothing but an advertising strategy to sell products made by other manufacturers to persuade them to buy their goods for examples, Kool-Aid, Quaker Oats, and Chuckwagon Dog Foods. The reason for that is because not only the manufacturers wanted to advertised their product but they believed that people at that era were so into gaming that they will do whatever they can to play just because it's a videogame, that's like saying "Hey, everybody loves to eat at McDonald's, so let's make a game about it that people can play with so that McDonald's can be as fun as they are good." Well if you think about it, gaming back then was quite a mess, also since computers at the time had came to be quite popular, every consumers finally gave up on gaming and were playing computers instead. Also the other reason that made videogame flopped at the time is the game E.T.(or Pac-Man if you count that).

The Nintendo logo of this generation

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