News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The first fairy stories were never intended for children. Parent comment

Re:The first fairy stories were never intended for children by kragen on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:08PM (#30003983)
In 01972? Maybe Pong, but that was at the pizza parlor, not in your house. And it sure wasn't cheap.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The first fairy stories were never intended for children by vba616 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:59PM (#30004397)
Atari was producing home video game machines before long, I guess, but if they sold ~x00,000 units, that was an awfully small percentage of the population.

Some people had (non-kit) microcomputers ~1981, but again, that was an extremely small percentage of the US.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The first fairy stories were never intended for children by kragen on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:55AM (#30005272)
Yeah, but 50 years ago, Atari's home video game machines were still 5 years in the future.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The first fairy stories were never intended for children by vba616 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @09:10PM (#30018344)
I wasn't there, but going by Wikipedia, 1972 was about when they started doing something.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The first fairy stories were never intended for children by kragen on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:08PM (#30032064)
Yup, Pong.
[ Parent | on HN ]