Ummm, no. The third generation recreated the market.

when i was a kid back in the 1980's. i spent countless hours playing the Atari 2600. until the nes came out. the 80's era was the best time for video games

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To understand the third generation of gaming, you have to understand Nintendo and the Great Video Game Crash of 1983. The crash of '83 was caused by a variety of factors such as market oversaturation, inferior technology, Atari's refusal to credit developers for their work, competition with home computers, shovelware, and other stuff. All that killed the North American video game industry for two years. Nintendo had seen success in arcades with Donkey Kong and Mario Bros., and was even in talks with Atari to sell them the rights to sell the Famicom in North America. But Atari didn't have the money to buy the rights and simply strung Nintendo along. So Nintendo said, "Fuck it, we'll release the Famicom in America ourselves!" Nintendo studied what led to the 1983 game crash and learned how to avoid the mistakes of Atari, Coleco, Mattel, etc. They made the NES look more like a VCR than a video game console. Nintendo knew that the top-loading Japanese Famicom wouldn't sell as it originally was. Remember, this was a time when people thought of video games as a passing fad that went out with a whimper. Hence the front-loading design. They added the 10NES lockout chip to deter the glut of shovelware and porn games that plagued the Atari 2600 and other second-gen consoles.* Ditto creating a cartridge design that nobody but Nintendo could make. The Nintendo Seal of Quality was also used to show that the game was properly tested and worked. During the second generation, nobody tested the games to make sure they were playable and the companies thought that people would buy video games no matter the quality. Not so much during the third generation. The Nintendo Seal of Quality didn't mean that the game worked right 100& of the time, just that it was tested, playable, and would actually read once you turned on the console. Anything else was assumed pirated and "play at your own risk". These moves didn't stop shovelware altogether, though; the NES still has plenty of shovelware and bad games (i.e., anything LJN ever made) even when you factor out the unlicensed games and Taiwanese bootlegs. The worst move Nintendo did? Their exclusivity policy. If a company wanted to make games for Nintendo, they could only make games for them and no one else. It was so monopolistic and crowded out both Sega and Atari. In North America, Nintendo had the market cornered while only a little portion was split between the Master System (which was technologically SUPERIOR to the NES) and 7800. But the release of the NES in North America worked. It breathed new life into America's console market. They had the right game for the task, too: A game about a fat Italian plumber running around a land full of walking mushrooms and anthropomorphic turtles on his quest to rescue a princess from a fire-breathing dragon-turtle. *The 10NES chip has even locked out legit games, giving us that blinking screen. The original Famicom didn't have the chip, making importing Japanese games difficult. Retro gamers who play NES games on original hardware simply cut one of the pins on the 10NES chip to defeat the lockout.

NES dominated the US but Europe was much more interested in micros in the eighties. That's probably the major difference in the 3rd generation. As an older gamer, I could not afford a NES in the eighties but was perfectly happy with my Commodore 64 and loads of games on tape and diskette. Another wild thing about this generation is the randomness of system popularity in certain regions. Ever heard of the MSX computers? Well Konami certainly liked this system. It was popular in Spain, the Netherlands, Japan.... not in the US or the UK though.

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I for one loved the Sega master system. I had both. I think NES was more well known with more popular series like Legend of Zelda and Castlevania, but I still think the master system was overall just as good, but it didn't have quite the library of NES.

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4th Gen was when they really started hitting the sweet spot. SNES and Genesis/Mega Drive had some of the best looking and playing games.

The consoles from the past are great

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the nes a plethora of good games and a plethora of horribly bad games too. i think the snes, even a with a more limited catalog, is where nintendo exercised the best quality control. so many amazingly good games for the snes. also the snes controller is by far the best. the only modern controller i have which comes close is the wii classic controller, which seems to be based on the snes controller. there is one nes game that i think has the highest replayability rating i could give any game of any console. it's called river city ransom.

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It would haven been nice if you had had an actual Sega Master System game playing for the visuals for the Master System and not Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, which was a Mega Drive/Genesis game. Some actual Master System games like Wonder Boy III or any of the 8-bit Mickey Mouse Castle of Illusion series games look better than the "next gen" Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle.

I had nes , snes, and a megadrive Greed killed gaming

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Excuse me? No it didn't. The 3rd generation was the best time for video games and it reshaped the market

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If you were born in the 80s the Nintendo was actually a great console, master system and the rest not so much

Not gonna lie, I agree, I've never got into a nes game

Mario 1 sucks. Marioe 3 was the Apex. 🙂

Games had a purpose, back when people were afraid of computers and didn't understand them. Games offered a safe way to explore these strange new digital devices. And now, everyone grows up surrounded by electronic gear. Games have partially depleted their utility in a world, where nobody fears computers anymore. It's still a way to blow off steam and challenge others, but that gets boring eventually. As you age, the value of your time grows and at some point you realize that what you get out of games is never worth the time wasted playing them. All you do is piss your life away with no payoff whatsoever. If you're buying games, you're paying to make yourself stupid.

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