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Mobile
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Nintendo
Nintendo Entertainment System, AKA Famicom, Celebrates 40th Anniversary In Japan
When you look at the video game industry right now, you can’t possibly see it “going out of business,” barring something explosive or implosive happening. After all, AAA titles are making billions of dollars by selling millions upon millions of units. Then there are the mobile games making billions a few dollars at a time. But in the early 1980s, when the video game market was going through one such “gold rush,” everything crashed in 1983. It seemed like the end of the video game market until the Nintendo Entertainment System, aka the Famicom, arrived in Japan.