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 | Title : NES Core System
Author : Nintendo
Release Date : 20000101
Binding : Electronics
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This is the system that single-handedly resurrected the U.S. videogame market. Before the days of the NES and Nintendo, Atari and its 2600 VCS reigned supreme. And Atari could've stayed on top had it accepted Nintendo's request for Atari to market Nintendo's Famicom in the States. Well, around that time Warner Communications sold its Atari home division to the infamous Tramiel family who decided that Atari should be about computers, not video games. In 1985 Nintendo introduced the NES and thanks to a chubby Italian plumber named Mario, games were suddenly 'in' again. Atari saw Nintendo's success and brought its 2600 Jr. and 7800 systems out of the mothballs(the Tramiels shelved these projects as soon as they took over Atari), but kids were hooked on Mario, not Pole Position....it was too little too late for Atari, and Nintendo went on to dominate the industry. There were some absolutely GREAT games for the NES. My favorites are the Mario series (original Mario Bros., Super Mario 1, Super Mario 2, Super Mario 3), the Zelda series, RC Pro Am, Punchout (it was Mike Tyson's Punchout for a while, but after Mike Tyson's conviction, the original version was recalled and renamed Punchout and in the game itself, ear-bitin' Mike was replaced by Mr. Dream), and Maniac Mansion. The only problem with the NES is its front-loading mechanism is prone to dust, dirt, and bent cartridge connectors...you would be better off finding the top-loading NES, but the top-loading NES is extremely rare.
Although the Atari 7800 and the Sega Master System had better hardware technology than the NES, they lacked the one important thing that the NES had...not only a huge library of game, but also a huge library of good games. The 7800 had minimal support (rumor has it that the Tramiels spent a little in advertising for the 7800 versus the multi-million dollar campaigns that Nintendo made), and Sega wasn't much better with the Master System. It's true that Nintendo's 'third-party exclusivity' contracts (which meant that if a third-party company made games for the NES, they made them only for the NES, and they couldn't make games for competing systems) severely hampered the libraries of the 7800 and SMS, but the 7800 was doomed anyway (the Tramiels simply didn't care and basically ran the company into the ground until they sold the company to JTS), and SMS games were usually bad. The NES had its share of turkeys (one word of advice...steer clear of games made by unlicensed company Color Dreams [aka Wisdom Tree]...their games are so bad it's pathetic) but IMHO their good games outweighed the bad games.
(by bigdcaldavis)
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