This kind of view is 'NES-Centric' rather than US-centric: I live in the northern part of South-America so almodt everything gaming-related comes from the US, but my dad bought a C64 in 1984, I was 7 at the time. I didn't care about consoles until 1989 when my little brother got an NES, and still, all through 1985-1990 I only played games on the C64 : Accolade, Activision, Epyx, Microprose, Electronic Arts, Sega, Califormia Dreams, Lucasfilm Games, Brøderbund, Data East (i think they imported Ocean's titles), Cosmi. Those were the big names in video games for me, and it was a very vibrant market. Maybe not as massive as consoles, but pretty big and healthy if you counted C64, Apple II and PC Clones together. So yeah, all the criticisms shown above are accurate: structuring video-game historical narrative around Atari's 1983 colapse and Nintendo's 1986 rise in the US is, to say the least, very myopic and ignorant. PD: there was plenty of european software, although it was mostly through piracy because it had to be dumped to disk and made to run in NTSC machines.
It's absolutely not true that 3D games lose their appeal fast as opposed to 2D bitmaps. Look at the resurgence in interest for Atari VCS / 2600 games, which have the most primitive graphics. I, for example, have been playing VIRTUA FIGHTER 2 for almost 30 yeras and it still looks good to me, especially the camera motion and the backgrounds. And Tekken is loads of fun, especially in comparison to Mortal Kombat.
Don't forget that it did come out for Mac, then for Windows 95, that's what incensed Sony. They didn't care about Dreamcast : those people didn't buy a Playstation anyway. But PC & Mac users were potential customers.
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Re: "Poorly Analyzed US-Centric Garbage" - Why Do Americans Keep Ignoring European Gaming History?
This kind of view is 'NES-Centric' rather than US-centric: I live in the northern part of South-America so almodt everything gaming-related comes from the US, but my dad bought a C64 in 1984, I was 7 at the time. I didn't care about consoles until 1989 when my little brother got an NES, and still, all through 1985-1990 I only played games on the C64 : Accolade, Activision, Epyx, Microprose, Electronic Arts, Sega, Califormia Dreams, Lucasfilm Games, Brøderbund, Data East (i think they imported Ocean's titles), Cosmi. Those were the big names in video games for me, and it was a very vibrant market. Maybe not as massive as consoles, but pretty big and healthy if you counted C64, Apple II and PC Clones together. So yeah, all the criticisms shown above are accurate: structuring video-game historical narrative around Atari's 1983 colapse and Nintendo's 1986 rise in the US is, to say the least, very myopic and ignorant.
PD: there was plenty of european software, although it was mostly through piracy because it had to be dumped to disk and made to run in NTSC machines.
Re: Don't Hold Your Breath For A Tekken Collection
It's absolutely not true that 3D games lose their appeal fast as opposed to 2D bitmaps. Look at the resurgence in interest for Atari VCS / 2600 games, which have the most primitive graphics. I, for example, have been playing VIRTUA FIGHTER 2 for almost 30 yeras and it still looks good to me, especially the camera motion and the backgrounds.
And Tekken is loads of fun, especially in comparison to Mortal Kombat.
Re: Bleem, The Company That Took On Sony And Won, Rises From The Dead (Again)
Don't forget that it did come out for Mac, then for Windows 95, that's what incensed Sony. They didn't care about Dreamcast : those people didn't buy a Playstation anyway. But PC & Mac users were potential customers.