“15 years in the making!”.
Hopefully, many of you are enjoying an end-of-year break over the holidays, but even if you’re back at the coalface before the new year arrives, we recommend making time to check out this fascinating new overview documentary of the NES’ US launch from Frank Cifaldi and the folks over at the Video Game History Foundation.
Building on his years of research, and following on from the excellent panel at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo back in October (featuring NOA veterans Gail Tilden, Lance Barr, and Bruce Lowry – we’ll embed the archived video at the bottom of the page), this new 45-minute video went live on Christmas Day and explores the ins and outs of the Famicom’s journey to the US, its transformation into the Nintendo Entertainment System, and how its New York test market launch set the system up for monster success in the second half of the 1980s.
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