[TedDoesntTalk]

> CIGGIES AND GAMES ARE SORT OF THE SAME... LITTLE SQUARE BOXES THAT TEENIES GET HOOKED ON.

So even then we suspected the addictive aspect of video games?

[voberoi]

Yes, this was part of the public discourse around video games in the 80s.

See: https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-claiming-that-video-...

This is a quote from an Erma Bombeck article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erma_Bombeck).