[QUOTE="Runningflame570"][QUOTE="OceanLeet"][QUOTE="Runningflame570"]Dead industry my foot..it was the console market and it was in the US only.billbradsky
Apparently you havn't heard about the industry crash in 1983.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
I've read about it though I don't consider Wikipedia to be the most reliable source. Europe, the UK and to a lesser degree Japan all weathered the Crash and were fine for it (especially Europe where the homebrew scene essentially replaced the commercial scene). The computer industry in the US pretty much consistently grew throughout the 80s for a number of reasons, the crash did not destroy that market even if there was a dropoff, likewise the arcade industry experienced a dropoff but by no means a complete failure. It was only videogame consoles that became entirely irrelevant for the term.First of all, there was a huge market failure. I don't what you want to believe or how you want to view wikipedia, it happened. Second the crash didn't destroy the market, the market caused the crash. Too many companies brought out too much crap and consumers got fed up with it. Nintendo revitalized the video game industry.
However, in response to the original poster. NES had amazing graphics for the time, don't kid yourself. In today standards they are simple, but in 1986 those were amazing compared to the 5200, colecovision, intellivision and the such. That's not why people bought the NES though. Nintendo was very clever to market it as a entertainment system and not a video game console or a gaming computer. Secondly, they required the game to be approved by Nintendo. The great Nintendo seal of approval you see on NES game boxes. This avoided all the cheap poorly made games that flooded the market and caused the crash.
So Nintendo did many things right to succeed. But to say it had bad graphics is a little short-sighted.
I said it had good graphics and was a clear step up from Atari. But people didn't go on and on about the graphics like they do today. The graphics were nice, but they came after gameplay. The gameplay of games on the NES were groundbreaking. Lush worlds like in the original Legend of Zelda were unheard of. And the action found in Contra was awesome. Even making Mario jump around collecting stars and squishing was incredible. The NES was a whole new kind of gaming.
That is Pole Position and its one of the more impressive titles for the 2600. 
This is adventure and is pretty much par for the course on the system, that dot is your character.
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