Re:“Atari Was Very, Very Hard” – Nolan Bushnell on Atari, 50...
by MBCook on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:13PM
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Over here they’re basically synonymous with gaming. They are the company that brought gaming back after the crash with the NES and sold a ton. Then we got the GameBoy which just cemented things further. The Genesis (MegaDrive) was kind of their first real competition here but they released the super Nintendo and it sold a much better (roughly 50m vs 25m).
Of course they’ve been around ever since. The GBA, the DS, the Wii, and the Switch have all been massive successes. they’ve never really disappeared in the US.
They’re kind of the brand for all of gaming history here after the Atari crash. Sega came later (Genesis/MD) and went (so long Dreamcast), Sony came in ‘95 and Microsoft in ‘01. That’s basically it for the big brands.
There’s a reason that tons of people called all video games “Nintendos“ for a very long time.
Of course they’ve been around ever since. The GBA, the DS, the Wii, and the Switch have all been massive successes. they’ve never really disappeared in the US.
They’re kind of the brand for all of gaming history here after the Atari crash. Sega came later (Genesis/MD) and went (so long Dreamcast), Sony came in ‘95 and Microsoft in ‘01. That’s basically it for the big brands.
There’s a reason that tons of people called all video games “Nintendos“ for a very long time.