No problem.
Another fun fact; an interview that surfaced a few months ago confirmed that the N64's relative failure in Japan is the real reason why the N64DD was never given a proper retail release, let alone a release at all outside of Japan. The hardware was finalised in 1997, there were games lining up that could've launched for it (most moved to cartridges in the end), but Nintendo were internally aiming for a domestic install base of 6m units before feeling like an add-on was justified, and they never managed to reach that milestone.
Arcades actually did decline during those years in the US. It just wasn't as dramatic as consoles, so people latched on to the narrative that the crash was exclusively a console thing.
Brazil is also where the 8-bit gen is still alive and going.
The market was hugely varied with platforms in UK back then. Saw this chart for May 92 doing the rounds a little while back:
As someone who is an organiser for Game Workers Australia, I know for certain it wasn't because of our unionised workforce that scared the AAA studios away - it was our rising dollar post-GFC. There's still plenty of un-unionised workers getting crunched and exploited down under, sadly.
Wow, that split is even later than I imagined it would be. Thanks for that! What an interesting snapshot. You can really see the final days of the budget games on cassette there as the microcomputers are still holding out. They've got maybe another 18 months before becoming largely irrelevant. Consoles gradually creeping in in terms of market share.The market was hugely varied with platforms in UK back then. Saw this chart for May 92 doing the rounds a little while back:
Growing up in the UK, I have yet to even see an actual Gamecube in person outside of literal museums. Almost *everyone* I knew gamed on a home computer or PS2, with a small fraction of Xbox users too.
I mean… Japan and China (where video game development is also massively popular) also don't have a good track record on workers rights either.
Oof. There is a musuem here that will let you play Sonic Adventure 2 on a Gamecube. None of the kids could beat it so they all asked me to beat it for them so they could watch clips of Shadow.
In the school playgrounds of my youth it was as common to swap mixtape cassettes of games as it was music taped off the radio too.
Was it The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge??? Small place but incredible to visit. Really nice to see this stuff hands on.
Nintendo of Europe published all the action rpgs they could get form Square or Enix
The National Videogame Museum in Sheffield
Ooh, didn't know about this one. Will see if I can give it a visit.The National Videogame Museum in Sheffield
It's very Sonic-centric actually.
If you do we can meet up if you want.
Yup came to say this. I didn't know a single person with anything Nintendo until killer instinct came out for the SNES and even after that they all moved back to megadrive etc
I can confirm that in Spain nobody knows or care about Twisted Metal.
Haha. There's Sonic 1, Mania and actual arcade versions of Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing / Transformed too!
Portables were the big exception. Game Boy trounced the Lynx and Game Gear just like (presumably) everywhere else. Although if there is somewhere that *didnt* happen I'd love to read about it :D
I remember arguing with people about Spider-Man 2 that the ps2 version wasn't better just because it was on the ps2. I have no idea about the qualities of the respective ports though.
