/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5393758
>Given what unlicensed NES developers like Color Dreams and American Video Entertainment were like, you ought to be thankful for Nintendo's harsh but ultimately for the better policies. Many of those games serve no purpose whatsoever outside of providing material for AVGN.

CodeMasters and Tengen had a pretty good output on the NES as unlicensed publishers. CodeMasters made the game genie. They also had success with their Micro Machine games. Which used unlicensed gold carts. Camerica published their games in the west. Which was a Canadian group. But outside of those exceptions, unlicensed third parties were trash. Wisdom Tree made bible themed games on purpose so they could use Christian bookstores as a method to distribute games.

But Nintendo, went great lengths to create a walled garden around the third party developers. Kinda of impressive how they made it all work. Atari didn't didn't have licensed publishers on their console. I don't think that concept existed for them. Activision were formed by disgruntled Atari game designers who found out they could produce their own comparable VCS cartridges without giving Atari any royalties. They were Atari's best talent and their games were instant hits that caused many other companies to jump on the bandwagon and produce their own 2600 carts. The people at Atari couldn't do anything to stop that.