20 years ago… Video games dominated the Christmas season

Posted December 17th, 2009

After five years of dominating the Christmas wish list of many boys and girls, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) met it’s first stiff competition in the home video game system arena in 1989 as Sega released the Genesis system into the market. The Sega Genesis quickly became the most wanted Christmas toy of 1989. Who would’ve thought in 20 years, the projected revenue for video games for 2009 would be at approximately $57 billion!

Here are some screenshots from some of our old favorite video games from the 80′s.

Super Mario Brothers!

Super Mario Brothers!

The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda

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One Response to “20 years ago… Video games dominated the Christmas season”

  1. Alex Ball says:
    December 18, 2009 at 5:56 pm

    Wow…there’s a blast from the past! Fun to see those screen shots again after all this time!


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