The real savior of video games and how the video games market survived

Video games keep getting better and better each year. The video games industries have expanded beyond the expectations and it became cultural phenomena. Nowadays, millions of dollar was spent to develop and produce AAA games titles such as Grand Theft Auto, and Final Fantasy series. Games have become giant industry like Hollywood and some universities such as Digipen even taught programming specialized in game making

Now imagine if the video games that you happen to love and know disappear right even before you were born.

The culprit was the video game crash during the mid of eighties (it was 1983 to 1985 to be exact). At that time, video games have lost their appeal in the market. With many bad quality titles still being unsold, most of the big player in video game industry like Atari went bankrupt. Accordingly, the recession and the lack of interest, video games was about to disappear eternally from the earth (enter sad music here)

It all went hopeless until (enter Xenogears’ “flight” theme here) Nintendo Entertainment system arrives in the scenes. The hero was a game named Super Mario Brothers, a colorful side scrolling plat former featuring a plumber with mustache. The players’ objective were to guide Mario reaching the next castle while avoiding harmful traps and enemies along the way

The addicting game play and high quality graphics (at that time) turned the public attention to the new Nes and video game industry slowly revitalized.

Learning from the past mistake of video game crash, Nintendo created a licensing system to check the quality of the games that appeared in the console. The new licensing system was made so that the next games would get a quality control before entering the market place

If Nintendo did not make appearance in 1985 and revitalized the industry, maybe we could never know game titles like Skyrim, God of Wars, Call of Duty and the other games. And for that reason, it is no exaggeration that some people considered Super Mario Bros as the best video games title of all time

Source of article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983