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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5011608" data-attributes="member: 22779">Just wanted to pull this particular point out for a bit of a dust off.  I see this bandied about an awful lot about how popular the game was back then because you could see it in places like Toys R Us and how it's so hidden now.  A point that gets lost in there is distribution.  In 1980 it was a heck of a lot easier and cheaper to get your product into a lot of different stores.  Shipping and  postal rates were a tiny fraction of what they are now, production prices as well.  You don't get a game into fifteen different stores now, not because they're any less popular or selling less well perhaps, but because the cost of doing so would be so phenomenal that you would lose money on the deal.Far better to concentrate sales in certain places where you know sales are going to happen in order to reduce distribution costs.I'm not saying that the game wasn't popular then.  Far from it.  But, claiming that the game is no longer popular because it's not in certain places ignores a much more complicated issue.</blockquote>