From my Dutch perspective C64, ZX Spectrum were thriving and the consoles kept on being sold in toy-stores. There were hardly any if any specialized videogaming stores in the Netherlands back than. The Dutch video gaming market was and to a large extend still is not comparable to the US situation in any way. Almost only the toy stores were selling consoles back then and all Dutch toy stores where either one of three or two franchises that offered the same limited choice. There were Nintendos, Intellivisions, Vectexes, Videopacs on the shelves throughout the crash era.
From my Dutch perspective C64, ZX Spectrum were thriving and the consoles kept on being sold in toy-stores. There were hardly any if any specialized videogaming stores in the Netherlands back than. The Dutch video gaming market was and to a large extend still is not comparable to the US situation in any way. Almost only the toy stores were selling consoles back then and all Dutch toy stores where either one of three or two franchises that offered the same limited choice. There were Nintendos, Intellivisions, Vectexes, Videopacs on the shelves throughout the crash era.
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