Wyrdness said:
NES didn't release in Europe until mid to late 80s with the earliest releases being in late 1986 with some countries having to wait until 1988 it's the platform that triggered computer gaming to struggle the late release in Europe was why computer gaming had a good stint as the were no active consoles around before NES after the crash it's only really in the UK where computer gaming continued to put up a fight. |
As I said, it did start to chip away that market, but given that Sega Master System sold around 6.8 mil in Europe, not that far from NES' 8.3, it would be a stretch to say that NES ended computer era in Europe.
If you were computer gamer (like I am since early 80s) around 1987-88 you would most likely transition from C64/ZX/CPC464 to superior Amiga 500 (my choice) or Atari 520ST. It was ultimately when Sega Mega Drive started to make splash that I noticed something drastically changing, only to see computers slowly dwindle in early 90s. Germany and UK were last bastions of that era of "gaming" computers, due to massive popularity of Amiga500, but that was it...until PCs, that is. And if you were like me, one look at Comanche Maximum Overkill around 92/93 running on i486 was enough to tell me were the next thing is.
