If anything, this is more of "in the middle" since you have Atari and other video game systems that pre-date the NES. While there's nothing wrong with the photo and I like the angle, I don't like the wooden tabletop and the bokeh on the video game cartridge.
An interesting take on the challenge. Photo is a bit dark and seems slightly out of focus. With better lighting and focus I would have scored this a bit higher.
Not sure that there the background element (a cartridge?) helps here. Very grey picture. top of image is also wasted space - maybe a tight crop on the Nintendo logo woud be more to my taste.
Now this brings me back a lot of memories!
Colors are a bit washed out and also de DOF is kinda weird. This could have worked a lot better if you worked the shooting area (maybe a colored sheed as background, better lighting and so...)