People in 1982 knew there was interest in watching people play video games. Now there is more gameplay video on the Internet than you could watch in a lifetime.

Now we have massively better graphics but in many ways the experience and gameplay have gotten worse.

ColecoVision with their perfect-looking Donkey Kong, and later Neo-Geo with the same graphics on the very expensive home console as the arcade games.

I still have all mine. But I never play them. I mess with emulators though.