• drcouzelis@lemmy.zip
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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!

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      1 year ago

      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.