| zorg1000 said: Gaming was already heading that way before Playstation, Sega was marketing themselves as the cool brand in America and it was working, then u also had more mature, adult focused games coming in the early/mid 90s like Mortal Kombat, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Night Trap. And u also have to consider kids who were gamers in the 80s were now becoming teens or young adults in the mid 90s so the gaming demographic was naturally going to become older. And even to this day, gaming is still considered by many to be for kids, nerds and man-children. Playstation did not make gaming mainstream in America, did they help? Of course they did, but too many people act like gaming was niche before they arrived and that's simply not true. |
Also, many seem to forget that, altough Europe wasnt as interested on consoles as the Americans and Japs, the interest on games was already established
They used the Spectrums, Amigas, etc to play
And also the portables consoles such as GameBoy and GameGear where relevant
