What Do You Call This Console? | 1980sGamer

In 1985, the NES almost flopped in America. Just two years earlier, the entire video game industry had crashed—cheap, low-quality games flooded the market, and people stopped trusting consoles. Retailers wanted nothing to do with video games anymore. So Nintendo came up with a genius plan: they didn’t market it as a video game console—they called it an “Entertainment System”. They redesigned the Famicom to look like a sleek VCR and bundled it with a toy robot named R.O.B. to make it seem like a