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Why doesn't the European theater of the Console Wars, specifically the war of attrition between the ZX Spectrum and the NES, get any attention today?

>> No.6915536

>>6915512
Not enough threads get made about the speccy i'd imagine, people should make more speccy threads 2bh

>> No.6915553

NES was never officially released in EU I think.

>> No.6915561

False flag, there was no speccy/nes war. Speccy chads warred with 64 chodes and Nintendogs warred with Segatards.

t.bong who had em all.

>> No.6915563

>>6915512
Probably that same fag who makes those scotformer and mayor threads is spamming these.

>> No.6915565

>>6915561
You didn't have em all cunt, on your bike nonce

>> No.6915592

>we needed to let in /v/ users because the board was stale and slow

>> No.6915601

>>6915553
official Euro release was in 86

>> No.6915605

>>6915565
fuckin did cunt plus an Amiga & ST

>> No.6915619

>>6915605
What are you some minted wanker whose dad worked for Sinclair?

>> No.6915637

>>6915601
Probably one of the reasons the NES wasn't as popular in the EU was it released so late compared to Japan, the Amiga/ST were already around so people jumped straight from their speccys/ C64 right into the Amigas/ST and bypassed the NES altogether

>> No.6915641

>>6915637
Main reason was it was overpriced shite, you could get better games on the microcomputers for a fraction of the price. Buy some shovelware for Speccy? Oh it was only 2 quid. Buy shovelware for NES? 50.

>> No.6915648

>>6915619
He bought me a 128 and was amazed when I copied programs out of magazines, so buying me new systems became a thing coz he had LOADSAMONEY.

>> No.6915649

Nintendo released games late, not at all, and often with butchered PAL conversions that ran at like 25 fps. The Mega Drive was the first console that people here actually cared about even though the games were still very pricey.

>> No.6915650

>>6915637
This is why there was no war. Speccy boys were older than Nintendogs and didn't really mix. Plus micros and consoles are two different things.

>> No.6915662

>>6915641
I think one of the good things about the AMiga/ST scene was the social aspect of it, gettign to know people who could copy games, groups of lads piling to their houses after school to get games copied to blank disks, not to mention orderign public domain software from mags and gettign to experience early pirating scene "Greets to Paradox" and all that, I think that's what a lot a lot of people don't get about those times, it wasn't just the games it was the scene as a whole, you never got that with the consoles

>> No.6915664

>>6915648
Burger here, was there a big gaming "scene" around the Spectrum? I have seen there was a shit ton of magazines for it so that suggests there was a big community interested in it

>> No.6915676

>>6915662
It wasn't as technical as the micro scene, but there was definitely a social side to the console scene with swaps and 2 player games. Double Dragon on the Master System was built for sleepovers.

>> No.6915679

I agree. The typical computer gamer was a teenager while console gamers were children.

>> No.6915689

>>6915676
>Double Dragon on the Master System was built for sleepovers.

On the other hand...oh dear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL35HvTIMmw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RDgt26Zcio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpm8uBAhz5g

>> No.6915694

>>6915664
Not him but yeah there were plenty of mags for all the home computers back then, most shops that sold magazines or newspapers sold them I used to buy at least one a week.

The dynamics of the scene were pretty interesting, as we had the speccy, amstrad, and C64 all competeing with eachother at the same time, you could find other gamers to become friends with etc easy back then but did they have the same system as you so you could swap/lend games, if they didn't chances are one of you would eventually end up selling their system and get the same as their friend just so they could trade games etc

>> No.6915701

>>6915664

Massive. I was too young for all the computer fairs and copy parties, but I found that you tended to get to know everyone in your area who had your system and you'd swap with them. It was no big deal to knock on a strangers door and say "So and so told me you have X system, wanna do some swaps?"

>>6915689
It's like the Master System's one good game, but it was a peach of a port, tbf.

>> No.6915702

>>6915694
The UK C64 mags were always very colourful, anarchic, and had a punk rock aesthetic, and the focus was entirely on games. For whatever reason the American ones were much drier and tended to focus on the C64's use for teaching and office work.

>> No.6915710

>>6915701
>It's like the Master System's one good game
Bubble Bobble.

Also there's still the issue with the music being absolute ear rape while the NES DD has fantastic music.