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Nintendo paired well-made games with the NES and strict control over who could publish for it, and sold it to wary US retailers as a toy. Some historians say this also stifled developers.
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No single cause explains it. Market saturation, a flood of weak games, overestimated demand and competition from home computers combined to collapse the US console market.
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Pokémon grew from a modest 1996 Game Boy release in Japan into a worldwide franchise through trading and linking, playground word of mouth, and coordinated anime, card and game launches abroad.
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Tetris spread through shared copies, reached Hungary and a British salesman, and was licensed abroad through tangled deals. Henk Rogers later negotiated directly with the Soviet agency Elorg.
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In 1999 designer Shigetaka Kurita and a team at NTT DOCOMO drew 176 tiny 12 by 12 pixel pictures for Japan's i-mode mobile internet service.
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Composers treated each channel as an instrument, shared channels between parts, used rapid tricks to imply more sounds, and often entered music as numeric data.
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