why Americans never made any fun wacky games on home computers?

[Anonymous No.8544572]

>Europe
>has Dizzy/Creatures/Zool, etc

>America
>has incredibly boring simulations that require you to read a 65 page manual

[Anonymous No.8544587]

why cant you stop shitting up this board with your retarded /v/ threads

[Anonymous No.8544591]

Americans aren’t very good at cute things.

[Anonymous No.8544595]

>>8544572
>65 page manual
>simulations
pleb

[Anonymous No.8544607]

>>8544572
Japan target audience: Kids with game consoles (and kids at arcades)
Europe target audience: Kids whose dads bought them microcomputers
US target audience: Dads who brought their work PC's home

[Anonymous No.8544617]

Surely Sierra and LucasArts games would qualify? But it's unfair to single out Microprose since they were bankrolled by the Defense Department to produce Cold War advertisements for the US military much like COD was similar propaganda in a later time (that was why Microprose were based in Maryland near DC instead of California like the vast majority of the video game industry).

[Anonymous No.8544626]

>American war-related game
>Is literally just propaganda with generic american hero protag
Every time.

[Anonymous No.8544639]

but even putting war/flight sims aside Americans always had a fetish for dry D&D shit like Might & Magic and Wizardry

[Anonymous No.8544651]

OP's being unfair anyway, Microprose were by and far the biggest American supporters of the Amiga and they released stuff for it pretty much from start to finish.

[Anonymous No.8544653]

What is Commander Keen?

[Anonymous No.8544656]

>>8544617
>But it's unfair to single out Microprose since they were bankrolled by the Defense Department
Do you have a source for this?

[Anonymous No.8544665]

The video game crash had a detrimental effect in that sense, Americans didn't figure out side scrollers until more than halfway through the 4th gen.

[Anonymous No.8544667]

Even the most notable American platformer of the 80s had a semi-realistic art style. Americans like to think of themselves as always doing things very seriously, including when it’s time to relax by watching sports very seriously.

[Anonymous No.8544687]

>>8544653
A PC version of Super Mario Bros. 3 with the copyrights filed off.

[Anonymous No.8544690]

>>8544687
It really isn’t.

[Anonymous No.8544692]

Aren't Germans the guys who play Forklift Simulator?

[Anonymous No.8544741]

>>8544639
And don't forget the adventure games. Do you have fond memories of Lane Mastadon (cover story of computer gaming world in 1988)?

People have fond memories of playing Rastan and Castlevania that year, but few people alive today go on about their fond memories of Lane Mastadon silly adventures.

[Anonymous No.8544746]

>>8544741
who honestly talks about Rastan anymore?

[Anonymous No.8544779]

>>8544746
Rastan is talked about in most /vr/ music threads. And to be fair it. Did have a PC port but it was awful and missing the legendary music.

[Anonymous No.8544857]

>>8544779
Volgarr the Viking was pretty much an indie game version of Rastan. I always wondered if the title would've been better remember if it had been ported to the NES. It always felt weird Taito only did a Master System version.

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[Anonymous No.8544901]

>>8544883
irony of having this picture saved

[Anonymous No.8544942]

>>8544617
I know Quicksilver Software (known for shitty computer ports of Data East and SNK games) were affiliated with the US military; they're still around and produce simulation software for military training.

[Anonymous No.8544945]

>>8544587
This

[Anonymous No.8545016]

>>8544687
>i have never played any commander keen games or super mario bros 3
You should probably get on that at some point.

[Anonymous No.8545036]

>>8544572
Because the average European lives a very dry and boring life, thus they seek wackiness as a form of escapism. The average American on the other hand lives a very wacky and clown like existence, thus they seek boringness as a form of escapism.

[Anonymous No.8545295]

>>8544572
For me, it's Crystal Caves, the best American PC scotformer.

[Anonymous No.8545302]

>>8544572
You don't know shit about American computer games, obviously. Just fuck off.