see here:
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52925
Ok I staged it, but I can easily imagine kids being relegated to playing nintendos or Ataris on the 'old tv in the rec room' or whatever, there were probably a few roundies still working around then that could have only been about 10 years old, and with what people paid for tvs back then they were probably more likely to keep them and repair them than today's throwaway sets.