It's about the same price as a reasonable laptop (e.g. Vivobook is now) or a games console. And it had to be, because the UK was much, much poorer in terms of

It's about the same price as a reasonable laptop (e.g. Vivobook is now) or a games console. And it had to be, because the UK was much, much poorer in terms of average disposable income than the US at the time (and still is really).