How Nintendo's R.O.B. The Robot Saved The Gaming Industry - Cheddar Examines 

Ugh good catch. Sorry about that!

Wow i wish consoles were only $1 again like in the old days

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Which was the mistake?

I had one but yeah, none of my friends did nor did any care. The few games for it were crap and it was difficult to get working properly. I think what did it for Nintendo was the massive amount of hype around it, Nintendo Power, Nintendo related cartoons, cereal, etc., the games themselves being incredibly iconic unlike Atari games, and it wasn't crazy expensive like getting a computer just to play computer games was at that time (and still that's true).

@@the_letter_b And even the claim that it "saved the gaming industry" is a false claim. PC gaming in the US at the time was fine, Japan's industry was fine, Europe's industry was fine. The only thing the NES did to quickly recoup console gaming market by an angled marketing push by moving away from it being a stereotypical games machine and it being more family friendly (as arcades at the time weren't seen as being particularly child friendly places). Something both the Family Computer (the NES in Japan) and it's competitors already where. As for PC gaming being expensive, consoles like the NES where roughly on par in price (and later in it's life more expensive) than your atari 8 bit, sinclair and other more budget friendly micro computers. And while the US mostly stuck with floppies (for some reason), tapes where dirt cheap often less than a 10th of the price of a Atari or NES cart (and floppies where also significantly cheaper). Granted the big name computers, unlike Europe, where mostly expensive business work horses rather than sold on the idea of "little Timmy can do his homework on this machine and teach him how to use a computer for in the future" like most computers in Europe around the time of the NES release in the US. The whole idea that ROB and/or Nintendo save the gaming industry is just a nice myth but rather far from the truth.

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It doesn't matter they totally redeemed their selves when they developed call of duty and other ganes

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@@kakaipechora3141 *themselves and no, the first two CoD games were good, the rest suck harder than a two-bit whore.

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It’s not like Nintendo fans are getting any play anyways (I’m also a Nintendo fan)

IKR Even the claim that it "saved the gaming industry" is a false claim. PC gaming in the US at the time was fine, Japan's industry was fine, Europe's industry was fine. The only thing the NES did to quickly recoup console gaming market by an angled marketing push by moving away from it being a stereotypical games machine and it being more family friendly (as arcades at the time weren't seen as being particularly child friendly places and Atari tried being an arcade machine at home). Something both the Family Computer (the NES in Japan) and it's competitors already where. The whole idea that ROB and/or Nintendo save the gaming industry is just a nice myth but rather far from the truth.

Looks the same to me. ;}

@Eduardo Segovia Oooooh-kay there, um, "Eduardo"💩

No one cares what happens anywhere else 🤷‍♂️

@@MrEazyE357 here we see an amazing exemple of what i'm saying.

@@yansproductions *example

@@MrEazyE357 yeah

Even in the U.S. there wasn’t a crash. I was 15 in 1983 and a huge gamer and never noticed anything “crashing”. The whole concept of a video game crash was created by Nintendo fans who were either not alive in ‘83 or were little kids.

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Who Rob? Well yeah, if you'd like to call it click bait (I'd like to call it more like deception). The reason for Rob was to deceive parents into believing it was a toy and not a console due to Atari's screw up of the market. So Nintendo brought the Video game market back from disaster, and afterwards Rob was discontinued. But it was nice for the time, the blaster, Rob, and the power glove.

Yes the OG clickbait

It's slow af

Evan Pangaribuan i’m from hungary we have really good dub i don’t know why you guys don’t have dub

@@ottokunsenpai7496 dubbing in Indonesian cinemas is ILLEGAL BY LAW in order to protect local film industry. And also some people believed that dubbing is disrespectful and rude, it disrespects casts by replacing their speaking skill

In portugal only children cartoons are dub

Here in Sweden everything is subtitled. The Netherlands doss the same thing. Only a few European countries dub.

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Nope. It came out more than 6 months later.

Tell that to Tengen, Color Dreams, Code Masters, American Video Entertainment, Sachen, and many other, unlicensed game publishers of the time, who hacked the CIC check.

From a Customers point of view there never was a crash. You could by Games very cheap which was great. Even if a Game was terrible you didnt spent much money on it. So it wasn´t a big deal. But from a developers point of view the Crash was huge. You couldn´t earn much money with Video Games anymore.

Everyone who bought the original NES did, it came with the console.

No retailer would touch anything even resembling a video game console back at that point. The only reason Nintendo was able to get on store shelves was by marketing R.O.B. to retailers, because there was a robot fad going on at the time, thanks to the TOMY Omnibots line. You can compare R.O.B. with an Omnibot 2000 to see the resemblance. Once established on the Shelves, Nintendo had no more need for R.O.B., and only sold the console after that.

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Who thinks that now? I think most people associate video games more with teen to 20 something bros, shut ins, and < 30 year old normie women who don't want to work pretending they're "nerds" trying to cash in on that crowd. But yeah, Nintendo still pushes the marketing towards kids thing still, that's been their niche since the 80s. I also think they've been trying to become a new Disney with their characters.

@@the_letter_b Dude, thats that's why I said SOME people. Obviously it's not the norm any more.

Same as The Gaming Historian. His video about R.O.B. is far superior.

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