The NES does get the nod for first, even though it was in 1987. Officially, "Lord of the Dungeon" was never released. If the crash never happened, we might very well have seen battery backup before 1987 on console in the US. In fact, we would have seen quite a few neat things if the videogame business had stayed on relative track. Let's remember that videogame stock was always available, right through the NES's introduction, so it wasn't a total collapse, but certainly the focus had shifted by 1984 through 1986 or so to personal computers. That didn't last either once the NES began to capture popular mindshare and the computer market was slowly shifting to 16-bit systems.
The NES does get the nod for first, even though it was in 1987. Officially, "Lord of the Dungeon" was never released. If the crash never happened, we might very well have seen battery backup before 1987 on console in the US. In fact, we would have seen quite a few neat things if the videogame business had stayed on relative track. Let's remember that videogame stock was always available, right through the NES's introduction, so it wasn't a total collapse, but certainly the focus had shifted by 1984 through 1986 or so to personal computers. That didn't last either once the NES began to capture popular mindshare and the computer market was slowly shifting to 16-bit systems.
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.