Nice. It doesn't suprise me that old hardware would still be selling in the 90s, especially after Atari tried to get back into the business proper with the late launching 7800.#
Over here in Europe it was pretty common for retro gaming hardware to still be sold in catalogues and shops long after their successors came out well into the mid 90s, with that trend only really starting to die down in the PS2 era I think. I've seen sales reports from 1992 that put the Commodore 64 as the best selling system, ahead of the Amiga, followed by ZX Spectrum and Sega Master System - this is during the Mega Drive and SNES' prime mind, both were outsold by the decade old microcomputers and the Master System. I think game price was a big driving factor of this - Master Systems were only like £50 at the time compared to double that for a Mega Drive, and the games were about £20 whereas Super Nintendo titles could easily cost £60. Home compouter games were released on tape and cost as little as a fiver or less.
Anyway, back on topic, I'm too young to have enjoyed the Atari in it's prime too - I mean, at 33 I'm also a bit too young to have really enjoyed the NES in it's prime years either, as the SNES came out in Europe when I was 3. Id did experience a lot of these games though, through a plug and play console I got for a Christmas present when I was a kid. It was called a 'TV Boy' and it had 128 Atari 2600 games built in. Honestly, the emulation of the games was probably shocking but it's only in recent years I've started to realise all the games were in fact legit 2600 titles! Because of this there's a ton of 2600 games I recognise and have played but don't know the name of - the selection screen on the TV Boy just had you input a number to choose a game!
I just found a video about the TV Boy on Youtube
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHObJNfar2Y&ab_channel=NostalgiaNerdWikipedia also has an article on it, with the full games list to boot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Boy