How did Nintendo become the Nintendo we know today? Our column Nintensive Care tracks the history of Nintendo’s videogame era and its outsized influence on games and the gaming industry. Up this month: 1980’s—not because it was a success, but it was such a failure that it almost shut Nintendo of America down well before the NES even existed. Typically available only to.
like beyond the story? Did it deserve to be a flop in 1980? Is there more to it than its reputation? Would I be asking these questions if I didn’t plan on trying to answer them, like, right now? Of course not., and other early shoot-’em-ups like them for as long as I’ve been playing games. I’d never playeduntil earlier this year, though. And what I discovered was a game that certainly has a fair amount of flaws, but that also innovated more on theabove most of the competition.