The Nintendo Entertainment System sits comfortably in its position as the grand-pappy of the game consoles we have today. To go along with their new machine, Nintendo came up with a lucrative licensing system that guaranteed players a certain standard of quality, and ended up jump-starting the American game market after the infamous “crash” of 1983. At that point, plenty of people had already written off the “game console” as a dead idea—Atari, once a monolith of American entertainment, had fallen (after playing host to such awful products as that one infamous E.T. game)—but the “home computer” was a subject of…