yes there is. They stopped making them like 4 years ago. they switched to mini dv. I use to sell them when I worked a camera shop like 5 years ago. You can actually still find them out there, though I don't know why anyone would want to purchase one this day and age
8mm film looks better than any digital camera you can get imo. when you get a pretty nice super 8 and know what your doing it looks amazing.  it may not be "high quality" but thats not the point.
No , they made 8mm FILM cameras in the 40's not video. Consumer video cameras became "affordable" in the 80's and the 8mm/digital8 cameras were popular in the 90s. 2 different things here.