{"id":2297,"date":"2011-01-07T04:43:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T04:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2011-01-07T04:43:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T04:43:48","slug":"npr-discusses-how-nintendo-saved-the-video-game-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/npr-discusses-how-nintendo-saved-the-video-game-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Discusses How Nintendo Saved the Video Game Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/files.g4tv.com\/ImageDb3\/250625_S\/Super-Mario-Brothers.jpg\" alt=\"Super Mario Brothers\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NPR did a series of segments about the gaming industry. Last week they aired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/transcripts\/2010\/12\/31\/02\">How Nintendo Saved the Video Game Industry<\/a>.  Listen along as On The Media&#8217;s\u00a0PJ Vogt\u00a0discusses how the video game  industry faced a downfall in early 80s. &#8220;By 1985, the flood of bad games  had shrunk the game industry\u2019s value, from three billion dollars down  to just a few hundred million dollars. And that\u2019s when our story really  starts. That winter, Nintendo sent out salespeople to try to pitch U.S.  retailers on a new console that was doing really well in Japan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/g4tv.com\/thefeed\/blog\/post\/709562\/npr-discusses-how-nintendo-saved-the-video-game-industry.html#ixzz1AJzN3N6k\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object id=\"OTM_Mp3_Player_158745\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"350\" height=\"36\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/flashplayer\/mp3player.swf?config=http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/flashplayer\/config_share.xml&amp;file=http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/stream\/xspf\/158745\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"OTM_Mp3_Player_158745\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><embed id=\"OTM_Mp3_Player_158745\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"350\" height=\"36\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/flashplayer\/mp3player.swf?config=http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/flashplayer\/config_share.xml&amp;file=http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/stream\/xspf\/158745\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" name=\"OTM_Mp3_Player_158745\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR did a series of segments about the gaming industry. Last week they aired How Nintendo Saved the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}