How did these "games" get the Nintendo Seal of Quality?

Seal of Quality is one of the biggest fucking memes in vidya. It means literally nothing.

Because they adhered to NoA's inane publishing requirements, such as only five games a year per publisher and the like.

>inane
You do know why the crash happened didn't you?

Seal of Quality only meant the game wouldn't break your console or would actually work

Their dogshit vice grip drove devs to other systems where they wouldn't get raped on production costs that ninty already made a huge profit on

Came to post this. It never meant "Nintendo says this is a good game." It just meant that it baseline functioned to the point of passing QA and met Nintendo's lot checks and shit.

>Their dogshit vice grip drove devs to other systems
And since then we've seen a staggering drop in quality, go figure. Also the reason why the crash happened was specifically because third parties had way too much control and like retards they flooded the market.

>seal of quality
>yup, they signed the royalty agreement
top kek

alien3 had one of the best ost on nes

>Nintendo Seal of Quality

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>Nintendo Seal of Quality
AND NOW....THE CHEETAHMEN.

I meant with the NES, specifically shit like limiting you to 4/5 games a year except if you were konami. Shit like that is why EA was on megadrive for years

>Literally an unlicensed game
Based retard

Damn those are fire

fuck off faggot

You fucking moron.

>I meant with the NES
Yes the system that was made after the crash in an industry that was in shambles. What was your point exactly?

>Shit like that is why EA was on megadrive for years
It's also because they're shovelware developers.

Because it wasn't a seal of quality, it was just an extra fee devs had to pay for Nintendo to produce their cartridges and call it authentic.
I mean, did any retard ever fall for this "seal of quality" stuff past their childhood?

>except if you were konami
Then there clearly wasn't a limit.

>Laughin' Jokin' Numbnuts

wasn't it just a way of saying that the game was licensed by nintendo
there were a lot of unlicensed cartridges back then

youtube.com/watch?v=-J0H5ah1G7A
Here's some NES fire, user.

My point was that Devs got fed up getting the shaft when it came to Nintendo and jumped ship. Same thing that happened however many years later when they stuck with carts over CDs and lost a lot of 3rd party support. Nintendo acting like they were the only game in town is what killed their momentum after the SNES. EA also used to make good games but I'm sure you think they're all shit so why bother

Basically.
It was just one of the many necessary regulations Nintendo had put in place to allow the industry to thrive again.

youtube.com/watch?v=ypNPxwnppU0
More good NES music, made by the same guy.

Quality meaning "we paid however much for this license". There was still truckloads of shit released that had their seal of "quality"

They weren't that bad. It's mostly just AVGN critiquing the flaws to an extreme.

the "seal" is a meme, much like how people think LJN is a bad dev rather than a bad publisher.

They got around it by releasing games under their "ULTRA" subsidiary

I remember talks that Nintendo actually had a contract which enabled them to blacklist any company that released a game outside of their own system, one of the explanations why Sega's Master System did even more poorly in the US and lacked tons of games released in EU and JP.

It was really down to who was actually developing the game. Nightmare on elm Street is decent since rare made it but Terminator 1 and 2 were hot garbage pumped out by mindscape or someone. Also Atlus made that Friday the 13th game

>My point was that Devs got fed up getting the shaft when it came to Nintendo and jumped ship.
Yeah, no one denied that but third party developers being sick of it doesn't mean it wasn't the correct thing to do when they were the ones who caused the crash to begin with.
It was the same deal with carts and CD, carts as a storage medium was superior for video games but the reason why third party devs left was because of the current "FMV ON EVERYTHING!!!" trend which of course did nothing to actually improve video games as a medium.
> EA also used to make good games
They most certainly did not, they published a handful but the majority of games they made themselves were all shovelware and it only became worse when they acquired the John Madden license.

Sega got around that by developing most of their arcade ports in-house and just paying for the license from the developers. Strider for example was coded by Sega because capcom had already made that shitty NES game

Look when I say good games I really just mean Road Rash and Mutant League

I really think you underestimate how badly developers hated working with Nintendo during the NES and SNES era. There's a reason so many jumped ship the second real competition came along, and Nintendo had to drop their anti-third party stance to compete.