There was a time when games consoles were mostly American. In the 1970s and early 1980s, console gaming seemed an almost exclusively North American pastime, with players enjoying Mattel’s Intellivision and the Atari 2600.
Games such as Adventure, Centipede, Defender, and Star Wars brought arcade fun and a sense of technological potential to Western living rooms. But in October 1985, things changed.
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