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For me, 8-bit systems were:

1. What kids our age played for a couple of years before the Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive (US: Sega Genesis) came out.

2. Surplus stock sold at a discount because no one wanted last year's model.

My Atari XE didn't feel so cool anymore when I saw that my cousin's Nintendo had way better graphics and sound, and also, all the latest games.

I did eventually get a NES, but my parents didn't like the expensive cartridges, and the SNES came out soon thereafter.