Did you know …
That before the invention of the Nintendo Entertainment System, human children had no games? It’s true!
That is to say, at least, they had no games that we would recognize today. If you were to go back in time, or use some sort of chrono-viewing device, you would see children laughing and enjoying themselves, but they’d be doing things that just don’t seem that fun for us today; shoveling animal shit, carving wood, feeding furnaces, capturing air in leather bags—these were the sorts of things kids used to do for fun.
Fortunately, in the early 1980s Japanese child-scientists developed electronic game machines that could plug into televisions. (Before this point, TVs had only been used to create white noise, and to broadcast images of the weather. But that’s another story.)
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