| KungKras said: I don't know about the rest of Europe, but Nintendo was huge over here in Sweden. At Nintendo's peak of popularity, a street was renamed into "mario's street" |
The NES didn't do too well in Europe's larger markets (UK especially), but here in Norway (like Sweden), it was HUGE. "everyone" had a NES and the official Nintendo magazine sold about 100 000 copies every month at its peak (with a population of 4 million people, that is pretty good). Of course, this was also when Gameboy was big.
The Sega Master System didn't have anywhere near the same user base, and the Amiga and Atari ST systems weren't as popular here as in for example the UK, which helped the NES a lot. Funny to think that games back then cost 599 NOK, which is about 100 dollars. That was a lot of money in 1990....
A game that wasn't mentioned in the list of top NES games was Duck Tales. We probably won't ever see it on the virtual console because of licensing issues, but here's hoping....
