Nintendo console, which released in North America in 1985, and in Europe throughout 1986 and 1987. The console was initially released in Japan as the Family Computer (abbreviated as Famicom) in 1983. The best-selling gaming console of its time, the NES helped revitalise the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983. With the NES, Nintendo introduced a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers, authorising them to produce and distribute games for Nintendo's platform. The NES was bundled with "Super Mario Bros.", one of the best-selling video games of all time, and received ports of Nintendo's most
The Oregon Trail (1985 video game) inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame in 2016. Out of the 12 games currently in the Hall, "The Oregon Trail" is the only educational game. In 2012, "The Oregon Trail" was listed on Time's All-TIME 100 greatest video games list. In 2016, Time placed the game 9th on its "The 50 Best Video Games of All Time" list. It was also included in the book "1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die". The Oregon Trail (1985 video game) The Oregon Trail is a computer game developed by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) and first