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redrocket_pub posted...

So we're just ignoring the NES itself?

I mean, I don't really put a lot of stock into it? Most GameFAQs users either weren't alive or weren't old enough to notice the NES's release, and the NES's first year is really crap compared to its third, at least NA-release wise. It's got a certain charm to it in a way, you can like kind of immediately tell those really early NES games - Excitebike, Ice Climber, Clu Clu Land, and all the rest - apart from their later counterparts, but really, they're mostly kind of novelties at this point. 1987 is when the NES really started coming out with heavy hitters, and for most people 1987-1990 are going to be the years that define the NES and what it was, and not the 1985 launch that most people weren't around for. It would be utterly bizarre to me for people to be voting for 1985 because of the NES. That's like giving 2006 credit for the PS3.