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[–] 8 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

The NES required companies to have nintendo make the cartridges for them and approve of games before doing so. You can say it improved quality over other systems but its still heavy handed and shitty from day one.

I love the games and consoles over the years but fuck nintendo all the same. They are capitalist greedy pigs like every other big game company.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Honestly, that kind of makes sense given the era the NES came out in. There was a fair amount of unplayable shovelware for the Atari, so having some oversight was probably good marketing at the time.

    The practice of going after emulators and trying to establish exclusive rights to game mechanics that they didn't actually invent is a bit further.

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