What's What! Video Game Facts (81/365)

The golden mark of Nintendo was first used by Nintendo of America since unlike its Japan headquarters, the America video games industry hit the bottom with something called video game industry crash of 1983 and led to the bankruptcy of several companies producing home computers and video game consoles in the region.

The reasons, to this crash well, there were many, an excessive number of product that entered the market where hundreds of games coexisted, many of them having a questionable quality * cough * E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial * cough * since they had been developed by the feared third-party developers in a very short time with the intention of obtaining large amounts of money taking advantage of the boom of this industry, so many consumers were questioned a lot when they buying a game, at that time there was no Youtube to see review and criticism, advice and guides. We also have the birth of personal computers, many people saw more utility in acquiring these devices than a video console.

To try to regain public confidence and ensure to the public that Nintendo games will always be of high quality, the company added in America and then later put in games in Europe and Australia the seal, manually approved Hiroshi Yamauchi him self.

The Nintendo seal that has already become an icon of the company in 2008, Sid Meier cited

The Seal of Quality as one of the three most important innovations in video game history, as it helped set a standard for game quality that protected consumers from shovelware.

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