Nintendo did not save American gaming from itself. US game makers created games for a lot of successful platforms including the PC/MSDOS, C64, the Mac, the Ata

Nintendo did not save American gaming from itself. US game makers created games for a lot of successful platforms including the PC/MSDOS, C64, the Mac, the Atari home computers, and the Amiga. What Nintendo did do was create the first good home console which had good games. Note that it was not until the Xbox/PS2/GC generation that PC and console gaming merged (i.e. there were relative few titles which were not multiplatform).