How Nintendo brought the NES to America — and avoided repeating Atari's mistakes - Mashable [Archive]

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19-10-2015, 21:48

<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNFe2U3kM7HhL-EjT4kKC9GK-jIxQQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778972186606&ei=PmUlVsjMMsP91AbIyYG4DQ&url=http://mashable.com/2015/10/19/nintendo-nes-launch-atari/"><img src="//t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSJI959wCDguLlEJFaiKuHToXT00Byww Ld9PjN1jJGgsyU5hVU0enDPU0zjltKJ0YEegbvci8WO" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80"> Mashable</a></td><td valign="top" class="j"> <div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNFe2U3kM7HhL-EjT4kKC9GK-jIxQQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778972186606&ei=PmUlVsjMMsP91AbIyYG4DQ&url=http://mashable.com/2015/10/19/nintendo-nes-launch-atari/">How Nintendo brought the NES to America — and avoided repeating Atari's mistakes</a> Mashable Exactly 30 years — and 42 million consoles sold — after its debut on American shores, it seems like the Nintendo Entertainment System was destined to be a success. But in the early 1980s, things were quite a bit dicier. Nintendo was worried about the ... <a class="p" href="http://news.google.ie/news/more?ncl=dH27SCK3-VCE0OM&authuser=0&ned=en_ie">and more »</a></div></td></tr></table>

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