NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner Help with a video - History of the NES in the UK http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=172572 2017-04-01T13:31:41 -05.00 Pomelo_Fish 6 Help with a video - History of the NES in the UK http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=172572 2017-04-01T12:01:14 -05.00 Pomelo_Fish 6 Help with a video - History of the NES in the UK http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=172572 2017-04-01T12:00:14 -05.00 Pomelo_Fish 6 Originally posted by: Of games

What do you want to know? I consider myself an expert on the UK market. Also there are many more versions than the "mattel" and "nintendo version" of the NES
I was a bit of a nipper when the NES was originally launched. GameBoy was my frist love so I can't remember too much anacdotely about what the situation with the NES was. 

I know Mattel handled the original launch but treated it more like a toy. The games were way too expensive and sold through department stores, boots, mail order etc. Compared to the Master System and Spectrum games (plus other computers) the NES was seen as a bit too expensive. 

They packed in the Hero Turtles game (even though it wasn't a first party Nintendo title) and that picked up popularity but then Nintendo took over distriubtion (as they already distributed through PAL B regions).
  ]]> Help with a video - History of the NES in the UK http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=172572 2017-04-01T10:42:02 -05.00 Pomelo_Fish 6
It is true that the scene was highly varied, people had amiga and Commodore and spectrums and master systems and megadrives and whatnot. But the NES was probably still the most common system people had... I guess in the USA NES had a majority of the market, while in the UK it had a plurality of the market.

I don't know what it was like in the rest of PAL land, but to understate the impact of the NES here would be disingenuous. ]]> Help with a video - History of the NES in the UK http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=172572 2017-04-01T08:32:52 -05.00 Pomelo_Fish 6 Help with a video - History of the NES in the UK http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=172572 2017-04-01T08:03:34 -05.00 Pomelo_Fish 6
Morning everyone,
 
I’ve been working on a video for my YouTube channel (http://bit.ly/2nm5fK3) for a while but I could do with some memories of the NES.
 
I’ve been focussing on the UK market and how the launch of the NES didn’t have the same penetration as it did in the US. Mainly down to things like there being no video game crash over here, and the use of computers that played games (and cheaply).
 
Does anyone have anything to add or indeed anything anecdotal about the Mattel or Nintendo versions of the NES? Any games that wouldn't play? Memories of where you say adverts or saw consoles on sale?
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