Manhattan, you did not know about the NES. You never heard of it. It was only there. It wasn't until mid 1986 that distribution on the NES actually went fully nationwide and you could go to a store and see Rob staring out at you saying, "Won't you buy me?" And then you could try Gyromite and say, "No, I don't think I will." But then there was kung fu next to it and you would say, "Oh, yeah, okay, maybe I will." So the NES launched technically nationwide in 1986, but that's not all. There was also the Sega Master…
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... like two dozen games released total throughout the entire year, most of which were holdovers from the ColecoVision that just flooded the market at the beginning of the year. If you don't count the NES launch, which really you shouldn't, because if you did not live in the immediate 50-mile diameter of Manhattan, you did not know about the NES. You never heard of it. It was only there. It wasn't until mid 1986 that distribution on the NES actually went fully nationwide and you could go to a store and see Rob staring out at you saying, "Won't you buy me?" And then you could try Gyromite and say, "No, I don't think I will." But then there was kung fu next to it and you would say, "Oh, yeah, okay, maybe I will." So the NES launched technically nationwide in 1986, but that's not all. There was also the Sega Master System, which hit the stores a few months after the NES kind of went nationwide. And shortly, I guess around the same time that the NES kind of promulgated across the US, you had Atari finally launching its 7800 console, which was supposed to have shipped in 1984, but because there was no market in 1984, it did not. And now this was admittedly a different Atari entity than had intended to launch the 7800. But nevertheless, ...