Tag: 1985
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This Day in Gaming History – The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the U.S. (October 18, 1985)
By Marshall Garvey When the video game industry crashed in 1983, the medium’s once seemingly endless potential seemed more than completely destroyed. If anything, video games looked instead like another ephemeral cultural fad whose time had come and gone. Hula hoops, disco, the pet rock…as weird as it may seem now, Atari console and arcade…