In 1985 Nintendo jump-started a moribund home videogame market with the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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By mid-decade the golden joystick had been passed to a cheap, Japanese import, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

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But when the game was released in Japan for the Nintendo Entertainment System, the hard-to-pirate NES cartridges sold much better.

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Why else would it emphasize that the Revolution will play GameCube games and downloadable games from Christmases past: Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo Entertainment System and even the two-decade-old Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Naturally, because it was a gaming party, they drew up a poster with images of a Nintendo game controller and the Zapper, a gray-and-red electronic pistol that came with the 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System.

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The Kyoto, Japan, company manufactured 3-D goggles and a companion disc player that could be connected to the Family Computer, called the Nintendo Entertainment System in the U.S. The project flopped and never made its way outside Japan.

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It was the first time since the original Nintendo Entertainment System came out in 1985 that videogaming felt like a party experience--not just because it was new, and worth gawking at, but because the experience is so much more physical, like Charades or Twister, and spectators can enjoy as much as the players.

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