The Great Video Game Crash of 1983/WMG: Difference between revisions

* Unlikely. Look at the other side of the Pacific -- Japanese marked never had anything even distantly resembling the Crash, and the Big N still reigned supreme there, despite the fierce competition from the vastly technically superior platforms like [[MSX]] (which was a Japanese answer to [[Commodore 64]]). It was their quality games that won the war for them, not a market situation or superior tech.

On the other hand, we need but look at the battle between the [[Atari 5200]] and the [[ColecovisionColecoVision]]. The former showed off ''Super Breakout'', while the latter showed off ''[[Donkey Kong]]''. Yes, '''that''' ''[[Nintendo|Donkey Kong]]''. Nintendo was already planning to release the Famicom in North America, and they still had exclusive rights to the sequel of ''[[Mario Bros.]].'' — ''Return Of Mario Bros.''-er, ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].'' Essentially, the same thing that happened in Japan to the MSX would happen here. Nintendo's console would have won out against the 7800 because it had the ability to ''scroll the screen smoothly'', an essential element in almost any game made since.