"It's perhaps understandable that Nintendo's mindshare in the world of video games is enormous – but some people feel this bias is resulting in the industry's history being retrospectively altered or distorted." - Damien McFerran | NintendoLife
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Interesting, not sure I agree it’s a Nintendo problem (though frankly there are some for who Miyamoto, genius as he is, passing wind should be awards worthy) but I think just like with movies and music there are some things which are essentially immune from real critique and revisional analysis. Nintendo because it is really the longest surviving big beast of the industry after Sega, Amiga, Atari and others have collapsed so does get treated differently to its now dead peers or later entrants. I do also think maybe younger people won’t understand the huge impact Nintendo and the original Mario Bros had, it was all pervasive in its cultural impact in a way you cannot really compare to anything in todays world. That does mean some of its games have an oversized reputation; Metroid is a good example and is spoken about as a top tier franchise but the actual popularity, sales, impact on the overall industry and gameplay (to me at least) has never justified.
No I don't think video game history discourse has a Nintendo problem I think it's just as widely covered as sega, PlayStation or Xbox. There's videos from the very excellent gaming historian, wrestling with gaming and many more on the roots of the industry all with their own take and some great production
Why are there more videos of Nintendo then most other companies purely because they have been around longer with the NES starting in the mid 80s and a even earlier arcade business there going to be more articles and videos than PlayStation in the early to mid 90s and the Xbox in the 2000s
The croc example in this video is probably more a example of a average game with a great marketing strategy I fell for it in my younger years begging my parents for croc way back and then I got it and it was great until the tank control frustration set in and I wasn't alone out of every retrospective on croc everyone hates those controls they aged like fine milk but there's still a Nintendo link here Argonaut software produced croc after star fox thinking Nintendo might buy it and make it a Yoshi game it didn't work and they pivoted there's also some accusations of Nintendo stealing their ideas but that is unfounded as far as I can tell.
I think in gernal there's a bigger knowledge gap around Atari, Fairchild , colecovision etc 1st and 2nd gen systems funny enough I don't see many writeups of anything pre the NES.
I still think that largely Nintendo deserves credit for revitalising the industry after the market crash and implementing a early version of quality control
The thing I really enjoy about nintendo is they're keeping lighthearted action adventure platform titles around. I've been playing Psychonauts 2 lately and it made me realize how much I miss those type of games. I then realize I have my switch to enjoy even more like that lol.