For many people around the world, the golden age of video games didn’t come in the ’70s; it came in the 1980s. Prince of Persia is widely regarded as one of the greatest video games of all time. Miyamoto was just getting started in the industry, but he was already innovating in ways that would shape video games forever. While Super Mario Bros. influenced side-scrolling games, its most significant accomplishment centers on how it saved the video game industry. It looked like video games might be more of a passing fad than the eventual juggernaut it evolved into.

Source: The Nation July 16, 2021 06:56 UTC