# Weekly gaming history exercise #1

**URL:** <https://discuss.grouvee.com/t/weekly-gaming-history-exercise-1/11301>\
**Category:** Video Games\
**Created:** [March 7, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://discuss.grouvee.com/t/weekly-gaming-history-exercise-1/11301 "2023-03-07T22:52:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kirais](https://discuss.grouvee.com/user_avatar/discuss.grouvee.com/kirais/32/12072_2.png) [@Kirais](https://discuss.grouvee.com/u/Kirais)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.grouvee.com/t/weekly-gaming-history-exercise-1/11301/17 "2023-03-24T09:37:19Z")

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A bit late in the thread. But I figure I can add a different perspective since I grew up in China in the 90s.

 ![image](https://discuss.grouvee.com/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5c2677dbaddec6703468450871338daa4a609db5.jpeg)  
(Found this image on the internet)

My first ever video game console was gifted by my grandpa when I started primary school in 1998. It was a NES clone (Xiaobawang learning machine 小霸王学习机) with a full size computer keyboard that is marketed as a machine to teach kids how to use computer. It was a smart marketing move because in China video games were (still are) considered evil and had bad influences for kids.

I found the receipt of this game console about 10 years ago. I think it was either 350 or 450 Chinese yuan which was about 45 or 55 USD in 1998. A small amount of money in the US, but that must have been about half of monthly salary for my grandpa.

Needless to say I didn’t use the machine in the way my grandpa had hoped 🙂

In [the next post](https://discuss.grouvee.com/t/weekly-gaming-history-exercise-2/11363/19) I shared an ad for this game console.

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