THE WILD WEST
The Eighties was a time of enormous diversity in videogames, as distinct regional markets and market turbulence allowed a multitude of companies to experience local success, with few truly global trends to be found. Consoles were dismissed as a passing fad in North America following a market crash, but the ruin of domestic companies allowed Japanese competitors to fill the void. In Europe microcomputers rose to prominence instead, giving rise to a generation of creators. As the decade came to a close, console manufacturers began to introduce handheld devices, doing for videogames what the Walkman had done for music.
1. MASTER SYSTEM
Sega, 1985
Although Sega’s 8-bit console
