ABSTRACT
With the end of the Golden Age and the Video Game Crash of 1983 in North America, the arcade market experienced a steady decline during the mid-1980s. The console market would be revived by Nintendo, but the games that brought players back to their TVs during this time were quite different from those in the arcades. Many console games during the third generation were more intricate than their arcade counterparts, containing more elaborate stories, secrets to be discovered, and a greater time commitment. Console action/adventure games now often took several hours to complete. Role-playing console games could last for 10 hours or longer.
