Commodore 64 Mini console announced.

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HoloDust said:

Green098 said:

Well unless someone told me about it or learned it somewhere, I wouldn't actively question it and look it up. Although I just looked it up now and heard that it never caught on in Europe the way it did in the US so that's probably the reason why, well other than the fact it came out in 1982.

It was very popular in Europe (yeah, I'm that old), but competition was stiffer than in US - Europe had ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464 as well.

It was very good machine for its time, with a lot of great games and some genres not found on consoles and (what is now called indies) lot of bedroom/garage developers.

i would rather say it was bigger in western europe than in the US. Just look at the amount of games made by european (mainly UK) developers and a lot of them never reached the US (where only made for the PAL version). 

 

C64 is the reason europe has been PC-centric and he US has been console centric.