Insights de MercadoWhy Collectors Are Coming Home to the Commodore 64 and AmigaAsk a German, British, or Danish collector what their first gaming machine was, and the answer usually isn't a console at all. It's a beige breadbin with a tape deck, plugged into the family TV. Across most of Europe, the Commodore 64 and the Amiga were the gaming platforms of the 80s and early 90s – the NES never ruled here the way it did in the US and Japan – and that history is quietly redrawing the map of what serious collectors chase.
In Europe, the console war was fought with tape decks
