Evan Ratliff

They didn't even get people coming over to play, to mess around.

No one could have cared less about that thing.

Yeah, and not just, yeah, if you'll notice, it's DC and Marvel characters in the same line.

Yeah, which is a little bit surprising looking back because the games were good and they knew that, I guess they were just a little gun-shy, but it seems like Atari made so much money.

Like, that's unheard of today.

They did not discriminate back then.

No, they didn't.

It was a wonderful time.

And not only that, but they said, you know, we're making money hand over fist selling these action figures.

I'm surprised there wasn't someone that was like, hey, maybe round two is going to be a real thing.

What if, do you think kids would actually buy villains like the Joker?

But it didn't work.

They didn't get any response.

No, and I think that really goes to just kind of underline just how bad a reputation video games had.

And do you think they would buy side characters like...

Robin and Batgirl and other villains like the Riddler and things like the Batmobile and the Batcave playset and before you knew it they were pumping out things like Bruce Wayne's foundation building I know that was a real thing or what was the other weird one the store

Because, you know, Dave points out that the consoles that had been going for like $100, $150 the year before, these retailers were stuck with them.

Yeah.

selling them for like 40 bucks, which is how much the games used to go for.

Now the games were like $4.