80s video game markets...

[Mark Meiss]

On 9/30/07, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Like I said, random mutterings. I'm just curious what was going on
> elsewhere
> while us UK lot were playing Frak, Manic Miner, Repton, Monty Mole etc...
> :-)


Having spent a lot of time discussing this very topic with a British
co-worker, I can say that one key difference is that we in the U.S. didn't
have any such thing as a Football Management game...

One thing that surprised him was learning that the Sinclair Spectrum made
almost no market impact at all in the US, but the ZX-81 / TS-1000 did.  It
made a lot more sense to him when I explained that Commodore was offering
people $100 trade-in value on a $50 Timex-Sinclair 1000.