Talk:Eastern Land/@comment-108.255.113.25-20140522230219/@comment-25173123-20140906053136

Save is a word i would not use.

America market was saturated with consoles early 80's and caused itself to be non-sustainable due to competition and over reaching of companies beyond their capabilities to cover buy backs.

America in turn faced a crash in the gaming industry around 1983 (or somewhere close to that time period?)

Japan on the other hand was not over saturated and their market suffered little due to Nintendo being the big dog at the time, and no major competition to hurt their market shares.

Japan in turn took advantage of the clean slate that the gaming crash created and moved their product a few years later into the void. Atari also made a small renewed push back into the market but they were still recovering from previous crash.

Some can say Japan saved the American market but in actuality they simply took the opportunity to enter it with the power that they had due to being little effected from the console war that crashed the american industry at the time.

Had they not done so then likely another source would have taken advantage of the void in the American market at the time. It simply was Nintendo took the opportunity before others could recover and take it themselves.

So save...? More like took advantageous control.

Just mine and others opinion on the matter... a report was done on this a long while ago but I can't seem to find anything on the web for it. I read it in an old video game history article that talked on the report. But that was old school before everything became internet based. ha