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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      Nintendo started as a toy company when they got into this business, and kind of stumbled by fits and starts into making "computerized toys" and then just "computers", as an accidental side effect of the Great Video Game Crash of 1983 "opening up the space"

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      (Kind of like Nintendo shoving Sony into making video games as a side effect of them being a leader in making CD players) And so like their "computers" ("Famicom" meant "family computer") were the least hackable computers yet made in the 80s It was a self-contained product

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      I do wanna say that although the difference between a "home video game system" and a "microcomputer" existed before Nintendo, they really put up this impermeable wall between them, they established the modern idea of a "console" and made it a selling point you can't fuck with it

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      The console landscape as it is today is a result of of Mr Yamauchi's personal aversion to tech, this culture he created of differentiating his stuff from the shit the computer geeks from California were doing by making it shiny and slick and unhackably opaque

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      And, well, it succeeded in creating a massive industry and making him one of the richest men in Japan Whether it was good or bad for the world is up for debate (I'm guessing that as an emulation and ROMhack enthusiast @Nymphomachy is not a fan)

      3 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
    6. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      Honestly I will say making consoles did make video games a lot more accessible to folks like me growing up, at least.

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    7. Wildfire Darkstar‏ @FieryDarkstar 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

      That's not really anything to do with Nintendo's philosophy of control. Plenty of comparatively open and standardized computer platforms existed throughout the 1980s. The idea that computer games were weird and inaccessible is more of a specific issue with the IBM PC ecosystem.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @FieryDarkstar @arthur_affect and

      It's more that it was both expensive and had a bigger footprint in the house than a console you just attached to a TV.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Wildfire Darkstar‏ @FieryDarkstar 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

      That's also a somewhat PC exclusive situation, since the IBM PC was initially pitched at businesses. Plenty of computers hooked up to TVs and were much more competitive with consoles price-wise (the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, etc.)

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    10. Wildfire Darkstar‏ @FieryDarkstar 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @FieryDarkstar @loudpenitent and

      Not that Nintendo doesn't deserve credit for targeting the low-end home market that US companies, in particular, seemed curiously uninterested in by the late 1980s, because they do. But the idea that "zealously closed ecosystem" is a necessary part of that isn't true.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @FieryDarkstar @loudpenitent and

      The 1983 Crash was a really big deal and left US investors skittish for a long time Nintendo succeeded by making themselves look as different from the preexisting "home video game market" as possible (different country, different aesthetic, pretty different business model)

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        2. Wildfire Darkstar‏ @FieryDarkstar 17 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          To some extent, yes, though I think the degree to which Nintendo separated themselves from previous consoles is somewhat overstated. It was a significant part of their initial push (particularly the decision to package R.O.B. with it), but it fell by the wayside quickly.

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        3. Wildfire Darkstar‏ @FieryDarkstar 17 Sep 2020
          Replying to @FieryDarkstar @arthur_affect and

          Within months of the nationwide launch, the idea that the NES was being pitched substantially differently than the Atari 2600 had been is hard to maintain. In particular, the "seal of quality" was nowhere near the big deal retrospectives make it out to be, in terms of marketing.

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        1. Cap'n Peanut B. Crunch!‏ @Peanut_Crunch 17 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @FieryDarkstar and

          Too, having a bit of a positive reputation w/ games like Donkey Kong, Mario Bros. & Punch-Out!! helped w/ the New York City and Los Angeles test launches. It made the NES seem like a safer bet to the arcade rats of the time.

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