Just realized that videogames were f*****g expensive back in the days

@Sonny Qc If you collect these older SNES games. You should try to visit Japan for vacation or buy from a Japanese site. They have these games in almost mint condition with instruction booklet and box.

If you want to just play. They sell a few hundred SNES and NES games in one. I think Ebay sellers from China do that.
 
NoSmilez said:
@Sonny Qc If you collect these older SNES games. You should try to visit Japan for vacation or buy from a Japanese site. They have these games in almost mint condition with instruction booklet and box.

If you want to just play. They sell a few hundred SNES and NES games in one. I think Ebay sellers from China do that.
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If he went to Japan, he'd be too busy hitting dem vending machines...
 
Dusty Rhodes said:
Remember selling/trading games back to Gamestop? They would give you $5 or less for even relatively new games and then resell them at $50 lmao. Very happy those cockfucks went out of business.

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One time, a old lady came with a box of old games. SNES, N64, PS1.
Her son was studying in college in another town.
Wanted to trade it for a gift card for him to buy a new game like COD or whatever was hot at that time.

in 09, gamestop already stopped selling older games like this.
we bought the games under a generic cable 'SKU' for 3$ each.
that box had over 100 games that were alll bought by us over the next few weeks.

We felt bad for the college student tbh.
 
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Lucky bastard...my parents never bought me a game. I had to save my allowance for weeks to buy a game.

And I was buying $60 games in the mid 80s. That's even worse.
 
I just got a Super Console X-pro on Amazon for like $100, including 2 PS style controllers, and it comes with ALL the games, like everything PS1 and older. I have been reliving my childhood the past few days. Finally beat Double Dragon and The Simpsons arcade games that gobbled up all my quarters as a kid. Fun Times.
 
I remember my Dad convinced me to buy Stealth for the NES with my birthday money back in the day, what a kunt of a game. He loved it though the slick fucker
 
Another shitty fact, is there was no video platform where you can tell if the game is actually worth your investment of money and time in the first place.
 
During the gamegear/snes/ps1/n64 era new games were like once or twice a year for us (bday and Christmas) unless I found some at a garage sale. But I was allowed to rent a game probably about every other week. friends would swap games to borrow or we would play together at each other house so we always made sure to buy different games
 
Dusty Rhodes said:
Remember selling/trading games back to Gamestop? They would give you $5 or less for even relatively new games and then resell them at $50 lmao. Very happy those cockfucks went out of business.

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I knew someone that worked at that company in wem, so I'm glad they also went out of business, especially when you're better off just paying 5$ or so for renting them at blockbuster, which I'm still sad they went out of business but it's just the way it is..
 
Satan's Daddy. said:
Another shitty fact, is there was no video platform where you can tell if the game is actually worth your investment of money and time in the first place.
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EGM was the most reliable source for reviews IMO. I remember when they would call out other mags or video game manufacturers that tried to get them to review something incomplete or write something positive based on some
BS. I was a kid at the time tho so I could be wrong about them being the most reliable or reliable at all. I can say that IGN back in early days was terrible and they had to be paid off or some sort of equivalent for some reviews. I still remember Raw for the Xbox getting a 9 for essentially and incomplete broken game
https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/02/08/wwf-raw
 
That's around 30 years ago now, just looking at the Street Fighter 2 Turbo SNES or Megadrive set with E-Honda and Sagat on the front, going off memory. Simpler times
 
I'm still pissed that SNES changed the blood to sweat for Mortal Kombat, but I still think it was a superior product compared to the SEGA version with blood.
 
I bought a brand new nes game as a child and it was $60 iirc...
 
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