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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D&D grew out of Midwestern wargaming in the late 1960s and early 1970s, created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974. It set conventions for role-playing and video games.
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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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