oldfart

I was 10 at that time. But being from Europe I did not notice the crash. Gaming was not big in Europe until the release of the home computers in the '80 used mainly for gaming: Commodore VC-20, C64, C128, Amiga. The Amstrad CPC 464, 664, etc. The ZX 81, Spectrum and Spectrum+, the MSX and MSX2 standard by Panasonic, Toshiba, Philips, Sony etc.TI-99/4A, the Apple II, Atari 520ST and 1040ST and I am probably forgetting some. The most popular was the C64: from '82 and was made until '92. You could obtain games from various sources. Unlike consoles, anybody could just program some simple game and sell it, publish the source code in a magazine or hand it out to friends on tape or floppy. That made the demo scene possible.

In other words what some in the US remember as crash of '84, I remember as the explosion in computing platforms, software and games.