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I’m thinking it’s a generational thing: people who grew up with machines such as the Atari are now of the age where they’d like to re-experience part of their y

• hn8305823 3y ago
  Just like the resurgence of the Shelby GT500 in 2007. If you were 12 in 1969 and dreamed of owning/driving one, in 2007 you were 50 with $$$ and nostalgia.
• hakfoo 3y ago
  I recall years ago reading a magazine article discussing the (at the time) market bubble for either Lionel-style toy trains or baseball cards. So this was probably early 1990s, and it pretty much tracked with when the kids of the late 1940s/early 1950s had reached career endgame and peak earning potential. They literally had a timeline predicting that eventually video game consoles would have a similar bubble. I want to say I think they predicted it in the 2000s though, so perhaps they were off, but maybe the infographic was just loosely designed.