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They licensed games on platforms even before that - Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong were ported to many home computers by Atari's home computer label, Atarisoft. Th
by nsxwolf 11y ago
They licensed games on platforms even before that - Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong were ported to many home computers by Atari's home computer label, Atarisoft. Those were good ports, so I imagine Nintendo was enthusiastic to try it again later with those disasters.
- bitwize 11y agoThose date from a time when Nintendo sold arcade hardware but not home consoles, so shipping a Nintendo game on non-Nintendo consumer hardware was not considered a compromise to Nintendo's core business.