• Dave@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m always vaguely jealous that I missed out on NES culture first time around.

    In the UK, consoles weren’t really a big thing until the Megadrive and the SNES, and the NES seemed to be nowhere at all, at least where I grew up. A few people had Master Systems, but mostly it was Spectrums and C64s.

    I’d see the NES in magazines occasionally, or in game ads in American comic books I got my hands on, and it always looked so cool.

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      1 year ago

      In South Africa, we got the Famicom. I was young and not aware of any others until the Mega Drive. I don’t even remember the SNES. Arcades ruled. Until the Gameboy and PS1

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      1 year ago

      In the UK? Were 8-bit micro computers popular there instead? I missed out on all of those in being in the US!

      • Dave@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, until about 1990… I’m not sure why, but I suspect it was because of the relative price of console games. It was a lot easier to swing 8 quid for a game than 30 quid for a NES game. Plus, there was an underlying delusion that parents were buying their kids a tool that could be used for learning if they bought a computer over a console.

        Consoles were a niche thing that occupied a couple of pages in the multi-format magazines of the late 80s.