alt Hacker News> You could get a PC for a thousand bucks back then
In the United States... In a lot of countries, computers cost a lot more than that in the local currency which, together with lower salaries, made computers inaccessible to most people.
I remember seeing people playing GORILLA.BAS in computer stores...
Which is why in many countries we stayed on the Speccy and C64, until 386SX were already widespread.