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Originally Posted by Jope
This is an interesting thing, worth more thought.
What different happened in Europe, where home computing was a thing all the way up until 1994 or so, in comparison to USA, where home computing stopped being a thing quite soon after the 8-bits stopped being state of the art?
In Europe we happily kept on home computing and playing games on the same devices. In USA home computer gaming seemed to become games console gaming and actual computers were for boring business stuff?
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One reason (certainly one of the many, though): Video game consoles. Thriving business in US, not so thriving in Europe.
Even today when someone nostalgic talks about his/her youth, how spent in front of a flickering screen, the difference is striking. US retro maniac talks about Atari 2600, NES, MasterSystem or Genesis, while European talks about ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Atari 8bit family or later ST and... Amiga :-)