/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8513539
>If that's the case then why do only Americans ever talk about old Nintendo consoles?
Don't know what gave you that impression, Nintendo was pretty popular in certain parts of Europe (and also South America and Asia). I'm in Scandinavia, and the NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boys and Playstation were popular consoles in the 90s, the Mega Drive was around but not as much. Never ever saw the Saturn here.
If you look at Eastern Europe, also, as well as Brazil, Famiclones with bootleg multicarts were dominant there.

>Did you really not have a ZX Spectrum
The ZX Spectrum failed to penetrate the North American market due to competition from Commodore, Apple, and Atari, to name just some. The Spectrum just couldn't get its foot in the door, the domestic options were simply better.

>or Amiga
Amiga was a Commodore line, and it was reasonably popular in North America for a time, but they eventually fucked up by making the CD32 while being outcompeted by Microsoft and Apple. They were left in the dust in the home computer evolution of the 1990s, as Commodore went bankrupt, and Macs and PCs could brag with sweet games like Doom.

>Mega Drive
They had lots, it was branded the Sega Genesis in North America. It was very successful there too, in fact they were the biggest in the console game right after Nintendo, and they had lots of good games to compete with. The Genesis/Mega Drive was far more popular in the USA than it was back home in Japan, where it was practically ignored.
There was also the TurboGrafx-16, which was pretty cool, actually, but it couldn't compete with the SNES or Genesis.