Squabbling over the latest home computer was commonplace during the Eighties, but it seemed to reach fever pitch as the consoles began to dominate the Nineties. The team rolls up their sleeves and gets stuck in.
DARRAN
Computer wars were obviously a big deal in the Eighties, but it became really aggressive when the consoles came along. Why do we think that is?
NICK
I think a lot of it comes down to the people who were profiting from the console wars pushing them, doesn’t it? Segaway more than you’d see in the Eighties. Magazines printed plenty of pictures of Sonic and Mario beating each other up too, to stoke the fires and promote the feeling that readers were part of an in-group.
