European gaming history often ignored in US-centric retrospectives

Cover art from Jet Set Willy: The Final Frontier. Americans are frightened of this so they pretend it never happened.

The tone is angry ("Poorly Analyzed US-Centric Garbage") but the point is a salient one: the European world of 8-bit and 16-bit computer gaming is improbably excluded from retrospectives. Put simply, American journalists think nothing was…