Yup we still had some video games and even racing games back then! It's been a life-long hobby for me, and when GT on PS1 came out I was already "grown up" I suppose (barely), but I must have put in 10,000 hours between GT1, 2, 3, and 4. I had a Tandy Coco 2 way back in the day, and had a book of BASIC code programs and typed it all in and saved it to a tape drive- like audio cassette tape drives! Taught myself some BASIC programming. And there were some simple racing games and even flight sims on that old thing too. Lots of friends had Commodore 64s. And when I was bored as a kid I'd read the encyclopedia.. like all of them. 🤓 😆
When someone tells me GT7 isn't a "real sim" I get it, but if you showed me this setup I have now in 1985 it would have blown my mind, especially in VR. It feels like a sim to me, especially knowing what games were like back then. But yeah I think Gen Xers have a unique perspective on things these days that no other generation does. But, I digress.. back on topic I guess. LOL