I’ve been making games since I was a kid in the 80s and whilst what you say is kind of true hardware and interfaces to it were spectacularly more simple as well

I’ve been making games since I was a kid in the 80s and whilst what you say is kind of true hardware and interfaces to it were spectacularly more simple as well. There was also more public info than you might suspect as making games was a popular thing to do then as well.