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On this day in 1982 two selfless brothers risked their lives to save New York from an invasion of killer turtles, giant crabs and fighter flies.
Jul 1, 2024 5:36 PM
ToSisPoS
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On this day in 1982 two selfless brothers risked their lives to save New York from an invasion of killer turtles, giant crabs and fighter flies.
seanonimo1
Mbappe
5NoteHalf
BRAVO op! What a good memory. My only wish is to have this with sound. ^_^
tarataqa
I'm stealing this
roberMarbleWatcher
MARIOOO Where are you!!!
jappie348
this movie is just the perfect amount of badness and goodness
FraudulentPepsi
Holy crap. Is this for the Atari Mario Bros??
ToSisPoS
It’sa true
Vergenbuurg
Before entering the US videogame console market with the NES, Nintendo allowed third-party ports of their games on other manufacturers' systems. Before releasing the NES on the US market themselves, they even tried inking a deal where the Famicom would be sold and distributed as an Atari-branded console. Thankfully that got derailed, as Atari's management at the time was a mess and most likely would have fucked it up. Nintendo did use third parties for releasing the NES in Europe, unfortunately.
AbeFromanSausageKingOfChicago
They thankfully opened Nintendo of America and the team decided to change the colors from the cream/maroon Famicom to more US friendly grey and black. Downside is they changed from top loader to side opening to make it more like VCRs which were huge at the time. Created a lot of missed connections and all those fun blinking screen issues.
Vergenbuurg
With the videogame collapse of 1983, they wanted to distance themselves as far as possible from the Atari VCS/2600 and other videogame consoles of the time... that's why they had it not be a top-loader and more reminiscent of a VCR. It was an engineering failure, yes, but deemed a marketing necessity to escape the tarnished reputation of prior consoles.
mikeatike
Atari did their best to wreck the entire video game industry. Making a deal with them might have ended Nintendo.
Vergenbuurg
I think Nintendo, globally, would have survived, more or less, but for sure Atari would have totally wrecked their chances in America.
mikeatike
I do wonder what the 80s and 90s had been like if it wasn't for the crash. Or if Japanese companies never got a foothold in the USA (and Europe?). One aspect is that we were dirt poor and in 84 it was easy to get a shoebox full of games for cheap. I might never have gotten unto it if we could afford how cheap a 2600 slimline was post crash.
Vergenbuurg
The thing about the crash was it brought down values on *all* games, not just the terrible shovelware that contributed to the crash... we might have had a world where a decade's worth of kids had to scrounge and *discover* the diamonds in the rough. For every Chuck Wagon, Fire Fly, and 2600 Pac-Man, there was Demon Attack, Pitfall, and Adventure.
JerBearington
TIL there was an Atari Mario Bros
MarkOfTheCovenant
Atario Bros
BaklavaWearingBalaclavaWhilePlayingBalalaikaOnBlackLava
I own it!
Raileks
mikeatike
This is the 7800 version. Thr 2600 one didn't look as good.
smashpro1
Looks way better than Atari Donkey Kong.
PineappleLoopsBroether
For an Atari game, this must have been so exciting
TheUnnamedPoet
It was an adaptation of the original Mario Bros arcade game. Many people do not realize that there was a game prior to "Super Mario Bros" because it wasn't as well known. When I was a kid I saw "Mario Bros" in an arcade and was very disappointed that it didn't look like the Mario game I knew from my cousin's NES
HandoB4Javert
rockiesmagicnumber
SOMEONE didn't play enough Mario 3 2-player with their cousin - trapping someone in an OG Mario Bros battle was how I first heard the word "Fuck"
TheUnnamedPoet
Mario 3 wasn't out yet I'm afraid. We hadn't even gotten Super Mario 2 / Doki Doki Panic. We're talking during the heart of the 80s when arcades were still the big thing