Last Sunday, the Nintendo Entertainment System celebrated its 35th anniversary. On October 18th, 1985, the system went on sale in New York City, with a nationwide launch in the fall of ‘86. The NES’s Japanese counterpart, the Famicom, had been out in Japan since 1983. But while arcades were still popular in the United States, the home video game market was essentially dead. Nintendo’s fledgling American division was tasked with convincing retailers that their system was different from the Atari