Was the NES the closest thing to a monopoly as a system can get?

[Blue Strife]

But gaming wasnt so centered on consoles then.....I remember the gaming computers were far more popular that Nes in my country(swizterland).I remember the C64,the Schneider(Amstrad CPC),the MSX and the powerful ones the Atari ST and the Amiga.Those were the kings of gaming in Europe in the mid eighties.