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Reminds me of Nintendo Seal of Quality for the NES. The uncontrolled amount of crap games coming out for Atari was the demise of the home videogame wave at that time.

Nintendo felt the need to closely control the supply of games and their quality to "guarantee" a good experience.



In reality that seal was nothing more than a marketing term

Nintendo with its lockout chip held an absolute stranglehold on supply of NES games that came out

The "Angry Video Game Nerd" of the mid 2000's was proof enough that plenty of shit got shoveled out on the NES


> Nintendo with its lockout chip held an absolute stranglehold on supply of NES games that came out

Yes, not only did Nintendo possess the unilateral authority to decide which games got published, but Nintendo was the sole manufacturer of the game cartridges.

This meant that Nintendo decided when those cartridges would be manufactured, and set an upper limit on the quantity. (Plus, they required you to pay for the manufacturing in advance.)

The fact that they controlled the manufacturing schedule meant that they might delay your cartridges if they had a first-party game in the pipeline which might compete with yours.




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