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As someone who grew up in the early 80s, I would have been gitty for this. While I enjoyed video games, my heart was listening to music. I much rather have a portable radio than a game boy at that time.
I woulda been in jr high when this came out and everyone wanted either the Sony sport (waterproof) or a discman if you had rich parents (I did not).
We got a used NES and pile of used games because a cousin worked for a rental store and they started dropping NES stock when the Super NES came out. Somehow later on someone gave us a Genesis, but that and an Apple 2e were all we had for most of the late 80s- 90s.
Oh yeah, and in 92 little kids were still all about those crappy voice recorders from home alone. My little brother was all about those for a year or so.
I mean.......the NES was great, AND you had a genesis??? I would not complain.
Sorry I didn’t mean to sound like I’m complaining. But at the time we got each system, the next generation versions had already come out and we’d missed the peak. So friends didn’t want to come over to play Mario 3 and Tetris (which were new to me at the time) when Super Mario World and Mario Kart were the current challenges.
I think my brother got the Genesis when his friend was giving it away breve he got a new N64.
They weren’t old enough to be retro yet, and I think you may be forgetting that kids can be pretty cruel about stupid shit like this. We’re stop deity has a lot of fun with these games. Even if we were never good enough to compete with the kids who’d had them longer.