Trigger Happy
Already by this stage a great number of teenagers were more interested in videogames than in pop music. And Nintendo and Sega inspired fanatical loyalty. They were the Beatles and Stones of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Nintendo was the Beatles: wholesome fun for all the family, with superior artistry but a slightly “safe” image; Sega, on the other hand, were the snarling,
As videogaming culture grew and the games became ever more complex and adventurous (with ever larger profits to be made), the hardware companies realized that technology had to keep pace with the designers’ ambitions. The seemingly unassailable Nintendo, having seen enormous success with the 1989 launch of the handheld Game Boy, decided to soup up the SNES by adding a
But after various
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