Itās easy to forget now, given its enormous success, that the NES was once seen as a risky proposition. Coming on the heels of the great video game crash of 1983, into a market unsure if games were a fad that had already died out, the system didnāt just magically appear in stores across North America.
Instead, it was launched very slowly, and very carefully (you can read more about these early days for Nintendo of America here). First in New York, and then in Los Angeles, in only a handful of stores.
