30 Sep
2007
30 Sep
'07
4:17 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Which sort-of raised the question of whether anyone's ever tried to
'map' the 80s video game industry by popularity in each country?
Not that I'm aware of, but there are definitely organizations that will
be tackling it in the future such as the Game Preservation arm of the IGDA).
Like I said, random mutterings. I'm just curious
what was going on
elsewhere while us UK lot were playing Frak, Manic Miner, Repton, Monty
Mole etc... :-)
Most of what you just mentioned were action platformers for 8-bit micros
like the BBC, Spectrum, etc. So it sounds like the UK had a monopoly on
8-bit UK games for 8-bit UK computers :-) In the USA, we had access to
less titles but much more variety -- adventures, simulators, racing,
wargame strategy, etc.
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