I was looking through the list of games trying to decide where to cut things off for the awards posts. My original thought was to do something close to every month. Which means June 1986 (the month we just finished) would have had ½ of its games getting some sort of award. It also meant that everything in October and November would get an award one way or another. Most importantly, it meant that Gradius in December would get all 4. That’s just not a good system.
Since I don’t have real release dates I can’t really go every X number of games without some kind of safety net. So unless there are any objections, I’ll be doing awards every roughly 20 games or so. That number isn’t exact because when I get to 20 games I’m going to finish the month and start over in counting when the next month begins.
Of course it would work out that after March of 1987 it would be exactly 20 games since the last set of awards. That’s just how things work out I guess.
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First the housekeeping, because I want to get that out of the way. Nintendo just doesn’t have records that I can find about the US releases of games. Or maybe it’s someone on our side of the deal because I’m not the only person having this issue.
What I do have is a list of games that at least gets it down to the month and year. I was going to try using Wikipedia to get some exact dates, but they can’t even decide if Super Mario Bros. was released in 1985 or 1986 in the US. Nintendo says 1985. With that in mind, I’m going to just randomize the list in each month unless I have a reason to do otherwise. We’re actually going to get one of those this month. But let’s take a general look at things first.
It’s been about 8 months since the last US release. 8 months of playing these games and shooting stuff with the light gun and not having new stuff to bug parents about. Then we get 8 games relatively all at once. Read the rest of this entry
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When the NES launched in North America there were 18 games available. Compare that to 3 for the Japanese Famicom release in 1983 and only 5 games for the US release of the SNES in 1993. Please remember that I’m following the North American release schedule, so things can get a bit wonky at times. Especially since there isn’t an official record of the US release schedule that I can find that gets more specific than the month and year.
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