Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "1992: Will VIDEO GAMES kill the radio star? | The Money Programme | Retro Gaming | BBC Archive" video.

  1. This video was broadcast two months after the worst financial event in British history where Tory incompetence (what's new?) wiped about a quarter of a trillion pounds off the British economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
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  2. You really are a frightful bore Chevy, old boy. Chin chin!
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  3. It's a financial show, it isn't watched by normal people, it is watched by grandparents interested in who to invest their savings in. They wouldn't have a clue what a games console is.
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  4. Nintendo messed up badly too by starting and then leaving the Playstation project with Sony because "optical discs will never take off in gaming so we've decided to stick with cartridges". Sony and Microsoft have utterly dominated Nintendo for the past 25 years while using optical discs.
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  5. It was Numtendo's answer to Spikey Blue Blur.
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  6. How so?
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  7. It was even more so in the 90's. Thanks to the inexpensive ZX Spectrums of the early 80's the 90's had an abundance of 20-something programmers who created some of the biggest games companies on the planet, DMA Design, Bitmap Brothers, Bullfrog, Core, Sensible Software, Team 17, etc. Many would go on to create franchises that still exist today like Tomb Raider and Grand Theft Auto.
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