The 1980s gaming industry saw the rise of popular home consoles like the Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, and Intellivision. The video game crash of 1983 hurt the industry but Nintendo's NES, bundled with Super Mario Bros., was hugely successful in reviving the market. Advancements in sound and graphics helped propel the gaming experience forward in this transformative decade.

1. 1980’s Gaming Industry
By Tim Hou

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The Commodore 64 was released
in August, 1982. It became
extremely popular and one
reason was that people could use
their joysticks from previous Atari
consoles with it.
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The NES Zapper,
the first light gun to be used with
the NES, was released and was
very successful, inspiring other
controller variations.
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5. Console
Nintendo release Game and Watch
line which is the first handheld
electronic game. The console itself
was deemed to be quite good but
there was a lack of games and it
wasn’t too successful,
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The Video Crash of 1983 caused a large
amount of companies to go bust and
resulted in peoples expenditure on games
to drop leaving many games doing badly.
It was blamed on a large amount of poor
games being produced.
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7. Console
Nintendo Power magazine was first
published due to the success of the
NES. It was then ended when the
NES was discontinued in 1995.
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8. Console
Nintendo released its NES console
and it was bundled with Mario
Brothers and it became an
immediate success. It was
particularly successful in North
America and Japan until the 1990’s.
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In 1983 the idea of network gaming
with personal computers took a leap
with Snipes allowing different people
to play together in one game.
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Dedicated sound cards were
invented meaning that the quality of
the games on home computers were
greatly increased meaning that
games could start to use better
sounds.
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11. Console
The Intellivision was released by
Mattel and it was immediately a
huge success. It was the first console
to have better graphics that the Atari
2600.
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12. Console ColecoVision was introduced and on
paper it was seen to be the better
console, however the shear
competition of three consoles in the
market and bad quality games meant
it didn’t get a lot of sales.
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13. Console Atari released its Atari 5200 Super
System but was considered a failure
due to the timing and also they put
more effort into their older 2600
model and less on the new console.
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