>>8104358People forget that video games completely saturated kids interests since the 80s, which didn't mean we weren't interested in other stuff as well.
Even in the 80s, when video games were expensive, we'd go to the CORNER arcade store to spend our allowances on video games. Arcades were crazy popular in the 70s-80s that EVERY strip mall had an arcade.
Nevermind that nearly every pizza place had a couple of machines inside. Nearly every convenience store, like 7/11s, had arcade machines. Nearly every laundry-mart had arcade machines. Arcade machines were everywhere in the 70s and 80s.
Even when arcades were dying off in the 90s, games like NBA Jam made over a BILLION DOLLARS, by people feeding it 25¢ per play.
Kids can not have be more obsessed with video games when they've been something we've obsessed about since video games existed. Which again, doesn't mean we weren't obsessed about other shit as well, because kids are ADD like that.
