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Written by William Lu

Animated by Jeremey Chinshue:
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Voiced by Octopimp:
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Transcript:

The early 1980s saw the Arcade Game industry reach critical mass as its worth exploded to 8 billion (or 20 billion today), and riding on the success of its own hits like Donkey Kong, Nintendo entered the home console market with the 8-bit Family Computer. The Famicom, after overcoming some growing pains, swept through Japan like wildfire and became the best selling console. Nintendo would then turn its eye towards the West.

But before they could enter the US market, Nintendo needed an American partner to license and distribute their hit system, and that partner was industry vet Atari Inc. A preliminary deal was to be signed at the 1983 summer Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas… until Atari execs saw Donkey Kong on the Coleco Adam Computer at that very same CES show. Offended, Atari halted the agreement until Nintendo could reel in Coleco, but it was too late. Atari CEO Ray Kassar was fired for insider trading and the Nintendo deal was dead.

Now without a US distributor, Nintendo formed the subsidiary company Nintendo of America, and at the January 1985 CES show they unveiled the Nintendo Advanced Video Game System, but reception for the system was ice cold. The video game crash just two years earlier still had Americans spooked.

Nintendo went back to the drawing board, but this time they modeled the system design after video cassette recorders which were booming at the time. So just like how you would load a VHS tape into the front of a VCR, you would insert a game pak into the front of the Nintendo system. Very exciting!

To really cement the NES as an innovative product, Nintendo created ROB, the Robotic Operating Buddy, which made the system appear more like a fun toy and less like a complex entertainment system. Coupled with the Zapper light gun (because America loves its guns dammit!), Nintendo was poised for success.

The NES debuted on October 18th, 1985 in New York City and was an instant hit. By 1990, almost a third of all US households were playing with power! The video game industry would go on to make a miraculous recovery, and Nintendo its king… until a new challenger appeared. Have fun!

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