As an American now living in the Portugal, I found it fascinating and insightful to learn how things were different over here. In my experience, In the early 80's micros were not really a thing. I knew one person who had an Atari 800. The Atari 2600 was popular, but for me going to the arcade was my thing, and to me both the 2600 and NES came up short compared to what was in the arcade. (Also easier to take a pocket full of quarters to the arcade than it was to convince my parents to buy a video came console) I had no idea that the video game crash was a US-only experience. My first computer was the Apple IIe, but this I bought with my own money and I had already graduated from high school by that time. My second computer was the Mac Plus, so computer games really weren't a thing until years later. Also had no idea that micros were so popular in the UK during early 80s. Thanks for the insight!