chad78 said:
If it were not for Nintendo - video games would have died completely in the 1980s. The Arcade was already dying, if not dead, by 1985, home computers were just starting to be a reality - and gaming sucked on them.
Oh hell no.
That's simply not true. I know cuz (once again) I was around at the time. And home computers were around since the late 70's. And gaming was freaking amazing on them. Long before anyone ever heard of Nintendo.
And the arcades were not dying nor dead yet, either. They were not what they once were in the early 80's perhaps, but they still had a good deal of life in them, and the fighting game phenomenon had not yet even come yet.
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If the NES had not come along, the home console business would have died with Atari (the *real* Atari - not whatever company bought the name from whatever company bought the name from whatever company bought the name....). If there were no home consoles during the NES / Sega era - video game development would have *CEASED*. Software companies for home computers would have seen video games as a dead fad, and we'd all be stuck with our EGA 32 color (not 32 bit - 32 actual colors) 9 inch monitors to type our reports on. If it were not for Nintendo - there'd be no...
There's no way to know what would've happened if Nintendo hadn't come along. The fact is they did, and we all know how well that went. Thankfully.
However - where there's a void, something WILL fill it. And my generation (the first gamers) were IN LOVE with our Ataris and Apples and Colecos etc., and we sure as hell wanted more. Eventually videogames would've come back. By another company perhaps, or by a revitalized Atari (assuming they could stop taking drugs and screwing secretaties long enough to do something good again), who knows? But videogames would not have truly died away.
Nintendo just happened to come along at the perfect moment, and ran with it.
chad78 said:
If you actually read this. If you actually thought about this *AT ALL* and you still don't get it... Not that you have to agree - but you at least see why this is *NOT* about putting stickers on it to make me happy If you STILL don't get it......
I think most everyone here "got it" from the start. In fact I referenced the connection to Pandora specific software and emulators in my first post to this thread some pages ago.
We simply don't agree there's a problem.
I will simply say I respect and appreciate how enthusiastic you are (and I do mean that), and I know you mean well for the Pandora.