SamTherapy posted at 12:18PM Tue, 05 January 2021 - #4409480

Pre gamers? Oh dear. Atari ST and Commodore Amiga were massive long before consoles. Prior to those, the 8 bit machines had huge numbers of users, and way before even they existed, there were the old, cartridge based systems such as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision.

I had an Atari 2600 after begging for it for half the year... I also had a C64 which was a glorified video game machine for most people.

My point was "Gamers" was not really prevalent phrase until the N64 / PlayStation age. It wasn't even really a term during the SuperNES days.

I apologize for whatever I said that offended you so badly. It was just meant as a humorous aside about an odd, ahead of its time, pitch line. It wasn't meant a serious exploration of the history of video games.