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the "Seal of Quality" did nothing but force companies to license carts through nintendo

• jonursenbach 16y ago
  True, but that said I don't recall ever seeing any shitty shovelware games with the seal on it. It was a nice way to easily find the cream of the crop.
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  • ootachi 16y ago
    All licensed games had that seal. It was nothing more than a marker that the standard licensing process, which is not particularly different from console to console, was followed.
  • 9999 16y ago
    A lot of titles that are now considered classics were initially released without that seal of approval because the publishers didn't want to pay Nintendo's licensing fees. Check out the Nintendo v. Tengen case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengen_%28company%29#NES_games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengen_%28company%29#NES_games And a lot of awful games did have the Seal: http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/w20-01.htm http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/w20-01.htm