Man oh man, I remember wanting an Atari so bad in the mid-80s—my friends, at least the ones with older siblings, had 2600s—and my parents managed to get me a 52

Man oh man, I remember wanting an Atari so bad in the mid-80s—my friends, at least the ones with older siblings, had 2600s—and my parents managed to get me a 5200 right in the window where that was the thing they were selling. And nothing ran on it. I think the 7800 may have even been out by then, which just added to the disappointment. (Fast forward a couple years and we got a Nintendo and have been a Nintendo household ever since ;)