Interesting how experiences differ…
In our village there was exactly one guy who had an Atari console.
It had Pong and some super-simple shooter with a light gun, that was all.
Only got it because his dad acquired it cheaply from a friend.
We all tried it, had fun for a few hours, but concluded that it was not worth the effort (and the pricetag…)
Took another three or four years for gaming to finally become a thing when CPCs and C64s started appearing everywhere.
Oh, that wasn’t just my collection. That was the entire family’s, plus like 5 other kids family’s collections. Admittedly, the smallest town I’ve lived in had a population of ≈20,000 people.
the smallest town I’ve lived in had a population of ≈20,000 people.
That’s ~factor 20 to my somewhat rural home town.
Might explain the difference!
First time I visited a store selling computer games in the big city we drove to twice a year was in 1990, first visit of a video game arcade was in 1992 when attending senior high in that same city…
Interesting how experiences differ…
In our village there was exactly one guy who had an Atari console.
It had Pong and some super-simple shooter with a light gun, that was all.
Only got it because his dad acquired it cheaply from a friend.
We all tried it, had fun for a few hours, but concluded that it was not worth the effort (and the pricetag…)
Took another three or four years for gaming to finally become a thing when CPCs and C64s started appearing everywhere.
Oh, that wasn’t just my collection. That was the entire family’s, plus like 5 other kids family’s collections. Admittedly, the smallest town I’ve lived in had a population of ≈20,000 people.
That’s ~factor 20 to my somewhat rural home town.
Might explain the difference!
First time I visited a store selling computer games in the big city we drove to twice a year was in 1990, first visit of a video game arcade was in 1992 when attending senior high in that same city…