What if Radar Scope was a success?

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So I've been thinking. If you found you're way to the boards, or if you have an account on the wiki, I guarantee you know what Radar Scope is. If you somehow don't, Radar Scope was an arcade game released in 1980 that was a huge commercial failure for Nintendo when it released in the US. Shigeru Miyamoto was then assigned by Gunpei Yokoi to turn all remaining unsold copies into a game that would succeed. That game would be Donkey Kong, which lead to Mario Bros., which led to Super Mario Bros.

But, what if Radar Scope was a massive success? What if this game was the game to rival Pac-Man and save Nintendo? Would we get numerous sequels and spin-offs like the Mario franchise did?
 
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So I've been thinking. If you found you're way to the boards, or if you have an account on the wiki, I guarantee you know what Radar Scope is. If you somehow don't, Radar Scope was an arcade game released in 1980 that was a huge commercial failure for Nintendo when it released in the US. Shigeru Miyamoto was then assigned by Gunpei Yokoi to turn all remaining unsold copies into a game that would succeed. That game would be Donkey Kong, which lead to Mario Bros., which led to Super Mario Bros.

But, what if Radar Scope was a massive success? What if this game was the game to rival Pac-Man and save Nintendo? Would we get numerous sequels and spin-offs like the Mario franchise did?
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Then Super Mario was gonna be named Super Radar Scoper and this forum is named The Super Radar Scoper Boards
 
I hope you don't mind me asking, but what was Radar Scope about? I legitimately have never heard of it.
 
I think Radar Scope was destined to be a failure as it was just yet another copy of Space Invaders in a market flooded by Space Invader clones. The thing it sought out to do at least inspired Juno First and Beamrider but neither games I'd say are particularly household names either.
 
honestly even if radar scope was a success..it's not exactly a type of game that lends itself to becoming a big franchise.

like space invaders is popular as all hell but no one really thinks about it as a franchise (even though there are quite a few sequels as early as 1979)
 
we imagine that one way or another, donkey kong would Exist and the hypothetical would be MOSTLY moot, but it'd probably be for very different reasons and we'd end up with just like, a few things here or there. rather than being made because nintendo needed to replace a bunch of radar scope cabinets, maybe they would've wanted to make a popeye game with the newly found success, gotten rejected (though this time under the pretense of some sort of skepticism for games as a whole), recycled what they made for a new IP, and, well, boom, Donkey Kong Exists, and the rest is history...

except, y'know, that history has a radar scope assist trophy in smash, or maybe it appears as a warioware microgame somewhere. and honestly, if nintendo weren't cowards, they could've done those long ago.

...heck, we'll say it; maybe they SHOULD'VE done those a long time ago! we've actually futzed around with radar scope on emulator and it's a perfectly cromulent game, we think nintendo's maybe a bit too sore that it bombed/glad donkey kong was the quarter guzzler it was to realize that like. yeah, it's no galaga, but they made a perfectly cromulent little space shooter there with a pretty fun angle-perspective gimmick, and we think it's pretty neat and impressive, especially for the time.
 
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