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In reality that seal was nothing more than a marketing term Nintendo with its lockout chip held an absolute stranglehold on supply of NES games that came out
by IntelMiner 5y ago
In reality that seal was nothing more than a marketing term
Nintendo with its lockout chip held an absolute stranglehold on supply of NES games that came out
The "Angry Video Game Nerd" of the mid 2000's was proof enough that plenty of shit got shoveled out on the NES
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 5y ago> Nintendo with its lockout chip held an absolute stranglehold on supply of NES games that came out Yes, not only did Nintendo possess the unilateral authority to decide which games got published, but Nintendo was the sole manufacturer of the game cartridges. This meant that Nintendo decided when those cartridges would be manufactured, and set an upper limit on the quantity. (Plus, they required you to pay for the manufacturing in advance.) The fact that they controlled the manufacturing schedule meant that they might delay your cartridges if they had a first-party game in the pipeline which might compete with yours.