It was so bad that retailers notoriously had little interest in carrying Nintendo’s new console when the Japanese company launched it in America in 1985. A glut of poorly made games for the Atari 2600 killed the marketplace as the industry lost billions in revenues in just a matter of months. After the videogame crash of 1983, the console was essentially dead, and the arcade reigned supreme. It’s not an overstatement to say that the Nintendo Entertainment System saved the entire home videogame industry. Something like the NES Classic doesn’t become impossible to find merely out of nostalgia its popularity was a testament to the enduring triumph of the best games released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. One of the hottest products last holiday season was a tiny box that played a bunch of videogames from 30 years ago.
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