When I was growing up, my family didn’t have a lot of money. We didn’t own a family console until my mom bought a Colecovision from a tag sale in 1987. Before that, my maternal grandmother’s Atari VCS was sometimes available in 1979 onward when we visited or even lived there due to money troubles. I did get a VIC-20 for my birthday in 1984 and then a Commodore 64 for my middle school graduation in 1986 from my paternal grandmother, but those weren’t so much game consoles as they were hybrid devices. I did own a few games for both systems, but not a significant amount.