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Funny to see "Game Machine that can be used as a PC" when, as I was growing up, it was "Personal Computer can also play games". In both cases I suppose it was
by JKCalhoun 1y ago
Funny to see "Game Machine that can be used as a PC" when, as I was growing up, it was "Personal Computer can also play games".
In both cases I suppose it was the dedicated gaming-machines (Switch now, Atari then) that were feeling the squeeze.
- acomjean 1y agoYeah, learn with the computer! When I was growing we had an intellivision game console. My parents bought us the "keyboard component" that turned it into a computer. What a terrible computer it was. Turned out it was released because the company was being fined for advertising a computer add on and not delivering. You wanted to write games but no, worse than the timex Sinclair 1000... A lot of home computing used tvs back then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Computer_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Computer_System