In 1983 the video game industry is in peril. An oversaturated market of thirdparty software games resulted in a $3 billion loss. But, in 1985, an old playing card company stepped in to save the day... with a robot named R.O.B.

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Further reading:

1. Games vs. Hardware. The History of PC video games. The 80s by Purcaru Ion Bogdan

2. Nintendo corporation: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/...

3. Nsidr
https://www.nsidr.com/archive/nintend...

4. Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered The World by David Sheff

(5. The Vindicator
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id...

6. The Video Game History Foundation: https://gamehistory.org/neslaunchco...

7. G4 Icons Documentary: https://web.archive.org/web/200601160...

8. Popular Mechanics

9. GamePedia
https://gamicus.gamepedia.com/Nintend...

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