So Nintendo, a company that got its start as a playing card manufacturer, did what any card player would do with a losing hand: It bluffed. All the company had to combat the promise of PlayStation and Sega Saturn was an aging console and increasingly expensive add-on chips that couldn't begin to measure up to what the competition had in store. Unfortunately, Nintendo's own Super NES successor, the Ultra 64, was still a year away from prime time (actually, as it turned out, two years).
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While it doesn't look quite as impressive in hindsight, the dusky diorama graphical stylings of Donkey Kong Country didn't just make it look better than its 16-bit competition - it trounced most early 32-bit software as well. Its awe-inspiring 3D capabilities were a far cry from the clunky visuals produced by limp also-rans Atari Jaguar and 3DO, and even early glimpses of the likes of Ridge Racer absolutely shamed the meager polygons Nintendo's FX chip produced. The looming specter of Sony's PlayStation, however, painted a different picture. Sega made headway with its Genesis, but even that juggernaut couldn't quite dethrone Nintendo as the industry's big player. By 1994, a mere three years after the console's American debut, the Super NES had grown long in the tooth, and enthusiasm began to wane.Īll throughout the 16-bit era, Nintendo had managed to fend off threats to the monopoly it built in the '80s with great software and some ruthless business decisions.
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right up until the point at which it didn't. So it went for Nintendo, whose Super NES offered the slickest graphics and most convincing audio of the 16-bit era.
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But technology marches ever onward, and while this year's system may trump the competition with its jaw-dropping power, next year it'll be nothing more than a dusty relic. We're running it again here to celebrate its 25th anniversary.Įver since Mattel chose to sell the Intellivision platform by proclaiming its incredible graphical realism relative to Atari's 2600- our stick figures are better!-technology has been the gaming business' preferred battleground.
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This article was originally published November 2014.