wvenable 2 days ago

A lot of that was necessary for Nintendo get away from the "it's a video game console" comparison after the video game market crash. That's why the NES looks like a VCR too.

  • coro_1 2 days ago

    Also NES appeared before the US as a VCR design because well, American's loved VCRs

p_j_w 2 days ago

When you try weird shit you’re bound to have failures. Nintendo has a remarkable success rate with their weird shit, though.