Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "1990: NINTENDO and the JAPANESE SOFTWARE boom | The Money Programme | Retro Computing | BBC Archive" video.

  1. Maybe Sega lost in the US but in Europe, or at least the UK, they far outsold Nintendo and were anything but a failure, though no console could compete with home computers like the C64 and Spectrum. When I was 10 I only knew three people who owned a console and all three owned Sega Master Systems. Then the next generation arrived a couple of years later and what few people in the UK owned a NES decided to buy a Sega Megadrive instead of the Super NES and Nintendo were gone. They did have a slight resurgence with the N64 though.
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  2. Multi-decade recession, eh? The last recession before 2008 was in 1983
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