Yeah, they were really taking advantage of video games popularity after the nes was such a hit. The technology really took off once there was a lot of competition. Healthy competition brought us the Sega CD in 91 and then eventually to the N64, more disc based consoles started to pop up. hard to believe that the original playstation came out in the states in '95. I was just entering highschool, yeah that makes me feel old. But it really felt like after that it just exploded with the variety of different consoles. It's too bad that the Dreamcast couldn't hold a candle to ps2 release, I really think it would have been the superior machine but the ps2 set that benchmark and the industry hasn't slowed down since.