nintendo didn't start console gaming retard, History lesson time for the kiddies on January 27, 1972, Magnavox launched the Odyssey video game console. also in the 70's and early 80's we see atari, coleco, fairchild and rca systems aplenty. it wasn't untill 1983 that the Famicon was released in Japan. and 1986 until it was widely released in the USA as the NES. hot on it's heals was the Sega Master system. this is considered the 4th generation of consoles. from that point on the big N has been beat to market by it's competitors with every new generation release.