why did American youth ignore 8-bit computers and favor Japanese consoles?considering they had the best 8-bit computers and should have had the best homebrew and demoscene. was it an intellect thing?
>>12354243Only rich people or large businesses had computers (for the most part) back then and we poors had arcades galore.
its down to bringing the arcade home. atari tried and almost succeeded but commodore were terrible at it. the commodore 64 is a great machine but useless at arcade ports until it was far too late
>>12354243>Biff keeps hogging the damn Atari 800 and playing video games! I'll get him a TV console so I can finally get our budget in order.
America abandoning Commodore is the biggest crime in gaming
>>12354243>why did American youth ignore 8-bit computers They didn't. 8 bit computers were very popular with American youth. Why do /vr/ (You)th ignore the rules and favor underageposting?
>>12354685This. IBM PC-compatibles didn't get popular with kids until the early 90's or so, when they stopped being just business machines their parents got from work, but the C64 was popular, as well as the Apple II. My best friend had a C64 he inherited from his parents when they got a DOS machine, and a box full of games on 5.25 floppies. We would pick a game, put it in to load, and go outside for a while, then come back in later and play once it was loaded.
>>12354243Different culture
>>12354243They didn't. The Commodore 64 is the best selling home computer of all time and was extremely popular in America. The 8bit computer scenes peak popularity ended around 1988 (16bit computers were already available and people started to move on), and the NES started entering its peak popularity around the same time in North America.Also they were different audiences. The C64 was a computer first and foremost, and the NES was literally advertised as a toy and sold in toy stores.
>>12354243Pre-Doom control schemes were atrocious compared to arcades and consoles.
>>12354769Most games used a paddle, not the keyboard.
>>12354774The prosecution rests, your honor.
>>12354767>and was extremely popular in America.This anon doesn't know what the word extremely means.
>>12354818The US accounts for 1/3 of all sales of the highest selling computer in history. Yes, it was extremely popular.
>>123548261/3 is not much compared to 2/3. So no, it wasn't "extreme" anything in the USA except maybe milquetoast.
>>12354243>considering they had the best 8-bit computers
>>12354867Hey I have one of those!
>>123548341/3 of the global total is a shit ton for the amount being sold in a single country. What the hell are you smoking?
>>12354879Almost no one had a C64 in the US compared to the NES, you fucking zoomer bastard.
>obscure console gets mentioned and hyped to death on youtube>Zoomers: GASP IT WAS EXTREMELY POPULARFucking retards, all of you. It's like if you said CD players were common in 1983 just because rich fucks could buy them, but normal people didn't even hear of them until 1988 minimum. That did affect vinyl record sales.
>>12354880The metric of whether or not something was popular is not measured by whether or not it sold more than the NES. You're literally comparing apples to oranges.
>>12354884The C64 wasn't obscure at all. Hell even my mom had one and she doesn't like video games.
>>12354906>You're literally comparing apples to oranges.That's what I'm not understanding from this anon. It's like he's forgetting that most people didn't buy computers just to exclusively play video games on them. If you wanted something to exclusively play games you'd... Buy a game console.
>>12354906>>12354907-t. was not alive back then yet preaches bullshit.
ITT: retarded zoomers (double negative) that think the Commodore 64 was competing with serious IBM machines in the early to late 80s.LOL
>>12354910Neither were you
>>12354921Keep telling yourself that, zoomer, just like how your daddy didn't touch you.
>>12354927Why are you projecting?
>>12354939What took you so long? I didn't think it took that long to wipe away tears.
>>12354945I'm playing a game
>>12354907This. Commodore sold more of those things than Ford sold Model Ts. By the end of its run you could pick one up for $60 new, and I picked up a used one for $30 at the time. OP is dumb as per usual
>>12354254No, fact is that computers were for tech literate adults and most kids didn't bother
>>12354254>weworst.larp.ever.
Great thread, guys. Very interesting discussion...NOT
>>12354769QAOP for life, bitches!
>>12355764>how to cope like a zoomie in one simple step
>>12355617I knew you were a fat know-nothing, but thanks for confirming.It's like that BANNED message that has the butch troon. Not sure why the mods want to remind me that they're troons who can't think every time they ban me, yet they do.
>>12355764If the sales of something are measured in the millions than it's popular.
>>12356573>If the sales of something are measured in the millions than it's popular.The Atari Lynx sold over 2 million units
>>12354243>why did American youth ignore 8-bit computers and favor Japanese consoles?This is just stupid, 8-bit platforms sold better in the US than in Europe. They are FROM America.What happened was, America was wealthier than Europe so Americans upgraded their home computers. By the 1990s all the C64s were shoved into the back of a closet and people had MS-DOS or Mac machines for the most part. This was the peak era of the C64 demoscene in Europe.
>>12354243Americans love convenience. Using a home computer to play games wasn't as convenient as a Nintendo. And why write your own software on a C64 when you could just buy better professional software for an IBM PC. It's the same reason American cars are all automatic while Europeans preferred manual transmission.
>>12355764whiner
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>>12355947Whine more dork
For me it's the PC-8801 mkII SR.
