Former Nintendo of America employees discuss their poor conditions in the 1980s
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Now we are used to talking about the best Nintendo Switch games and now Nintendo Switch 2: this time we have different news. Nintendo is today a giant of the gaming industry, but it wasn’t always like that, especially during the early years of Nintendo of America (NOA). Former employees of NOA, Gail Tilden, Lance Barr and Bruce Lowry, shared their experiences on a panel during the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. Among the highlights, they talked abo…
Nintendo of America was so poor in the '80s that it was "bartering" for 2am TV commercials while employees had to dodge "snakes and rats in the bathroom"
The Famicom was already a success in Japan by the time Nintendo considered bringing it worldwide as the NES, but in the wake of the Atari crash, its fortunes in the US were by no means assured. While Wikipedia shows that the NES launched in the US in 1985, that was effectively just for a test market in New York City, and Nintendo of America was fighting hard against its own budget to get the console off the ground.Last year, a handful of Nintend…
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