Nintendo Entertainment System

After the 1983 crash, American stores did not want another video game console, so Nintendo redesigned the Famicom as a gray front-loading box that looked more like a VCR. The Nintendo Entertainment System began a test launch in New York on October 18, 1985, with the R.O.B. robot helping persuade toy stores to stock it. Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Metroid followed, and the industry the crash had flattened came back around this machine.