Fall 1990, ground zero for the modern games industry. The six-year-old Nintendo Entertainment System (eight if you count the time since its Japanese launch), with its box-like chassis and dated visuals, looked like a relic of another era. Nintendo's arch-rival Sega was killing it with the Genesis thanks to an aggressive philosophy of price cuts and in-your-face advertising. In Japan, the p...
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