Solid point! But yes, the Atari 2600 was in pretty much every middle-class home at the time. Didn’t get mine for years later because my parent’s lived the Depression and WWII, didn’t see the value in a $100 game. :)
So you’re saying economies of scale and population made goods cheaper? That’s sounds suspiciously like capitalism.
A color box and manual, how… chic. As to salaries, of course you’re right, but Atari was paying a couple of dudes vs. several teams creating a modern game.
Anyway, love to see gamers whining about prices as we head into a world where obtaining food is a challenge.
Solid answer! Guess I’m a cow patty for even asking, but you came to the rescue.
Why was the US funding FOSS projects? That strikes me as weird, inappropriate and suspicious.
Berzerk came out for the Atari 2600 in 1982 for about $30. That’s $98 today. And that didn’t take the labor of a movie studio to produce and sell. It was kinda simple.
My lawn. Off of it.
Scots sounds like:
"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna’ be fooled again!”
Got a thrift store keyboard. The pink sticky on the bottom said:
User: admin
Pass: password
I wish I was joking. Someone out there was dumb enough to need a reminder on that one.
Don’t sleep on hummingbirds and dragonflies! Killers, the lot of them.
Had the same 10-years ago. They would also paint the exposed bottom half to match the frame, make the frosty bit camouflaged. Tried to get that again a few years later, same optometrist had no idea what I was on about.