Business wise, about the same thing that happened to the other groups with their machines after the 8-bit transition: Intel & Microsoft. People just wouldn't b

Business wise, about the same thing that happened to the other groups with their machines after the 8-bit transition: Intel & Microsoft. People just wouldn't buy machines that had inched up into the same price range as PCs without the compatibility. Combine that with some of the worst marketing and channel relations gets them all to disappear in the 90s. At the time I had hoped that UK / European manufactures would survive, but it seemed more like a short delay before the tsunami. I dearly wish someone had been able to keep alive the alternate segment (other than Apple who was premium even with 8-bits), but it looked like video game machines took the money from that market.