European gaming history often ignored in US-centric retrospectives

The tone is angry ('Poorly Analyzed US-Centric Garbage') but the point is a salient one: the European world of 8-bit and 16-bit computer gaming is improbably excluded from retrospectives. Put simply, American journalists think nothing was going in in Europe because so few game consoles and IBM-compatible PCs were sold there in the 1980s. — Read the rest
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