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| Happy US Anniversary NES! Deathstroke 8-Bit image by Michael Ferguson (AKA sonikuu4) |
Thirty-one years ago today, October 18, 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, was first made available on American shores. After the home console gaming industry collapsed in 1983 as signified by the symbolic and soon-to-be legendary burying of Atari on September 26, 1983 in an Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill, Nintendo Corporation of Japan felt like it could take advantage of the fall of the industry leader by learning from its biggest mistakes.
Nintendo would create the Famicom (short for "family computer,") in Japan in 1983. The Famicom was the original incarnation of the NES, which would make its way to our neck of the woods shortly. But unlike Atari, who failed to restrict third-party developers from accessing its hardware system thus opening the figurative floodgates for a deluge of sub-par, crap games, the Nintendo's machines locked out third-party developers unless they were granted Nintendo's blessing to create for the new console. The resulting first-party quality control and licensing strategy allowed Nintendo to not only protect it's brand from bad games, but also ushered in a new revenue stream to the company at the same time. This move paid off huge not only for Nintendo, but for home-gamers as well as the once terminal industry rebounded and established market dominance over all other forms of modern entertainment.
So the now question is, "What does all this have to do with Deathstroke?"
The answer is to this question is, "Nothing of which I am currently aware as Deathstroke never appeared in a NES game."
Then the next question is, "Then what is all this Nintendo stuff doing on a Deathstroke blog?"
The answer is to this question is, "I don't know other than the really cool NES-style 8-bit Deathstroke image that I found on DeviantArt that is pictured on the top-left of this blog post."
So the natural response to that statement is, "Works for me."
