I wasn't exactly sure on the numbers, sinse it's a long time sinse I heard
that story.
One amusing fact about the huge slump in games though is that most crytics
hold that it ended in 1985 when nintendo released a rather obscure game a
few people may have heard of called Super Mario brothers :d.
Of course, from then on things just got better, and the late 80's and early
nineties is still regarded by many as the most revolutionary period in game
developement, as most of the classic series metroid, mega man, castlevania,
F0, Zelda, Dragon warrior etc all started around that time.
Rather sad that things from about 1995 got huge, multinational and
corporate, indeed there are many in the retroremakes community that see this
as the point when games went wrong, though of course sinse this also marked
the point when for me new releases like donkey kong country that I could
play were replaced with 3D games that I couldn't, I probably am not the best
person to evaluate that period of developement from an objective viewpoint.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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