alt Hacker News> And yet, this entire era of video games feels like a hole that has been carved out of the collective memory of the medium. It is, in truth, a reflection of how niche the computer game market really was in those days; for every Amiga 500 sold, Nintendo sold 23 NESs and 45 Game Boys.
This finally explains why on YouTube, 95% of 2D retro game videos are about console games.
I think the consensus is that Europe was home computer land, while the US and Japan were game console land.
Especially the Amiga and Atari ST were much bigger in Europe than the US (mainly in Germany and the UK, and for Atari ST also France).