Yup. Those SNES/N64 carts were too expensive to be getting games on any regular basis! Sales weren't as good as they are these days either...
True, there were cheap clearance deals but it was also pretty easy to find NES and SMS games for $5 to $10 around 1993/1994, in my experience. A lot of this question depends on how current the games being bought were given the price slashes that occur later in generations.I wasn't excluding them, but my understanding is it was easier to get cheaper games or copy disks/cassettes then
I wasn't around at that time but I have read that after the crash in the 80s in the states you could get dozens of games for a few dollars
Yeah, he even got the import Saturn, Dreamcast and PS2 months or years before they ended up on sale in Germany. Always used to hang at his places and play the newest Japanese games without understanding a single word.Anyone else have the snobby kid in your neighborhood that had ALL the games?
I was born in 1984 so I started gaming on band me downs from the decade.Because that era has kind of ended, and it ended quite a while ago
Kids today will have grown up with free to play games, consoles with Xbox and PSN sales, Stream sales, giveaways with subscriptions, humble bundle, mobile games, emulators that run on everything, etc
If you grew up in the 90s you'd get a game for your birthday, maybe another for Xmas, then maybe you'd save for one extra game per year, but that's it, a few games a year
It's so easy to amass 100 game backlogs for nothing nowadays, truly these young whipper snappers don't know how good they have it
I guess this is only something that happened if you grew up in the late 80s to mid 2000s?
No, we had a guy who rented out games door to door from the back of his car. £3.50 a week and could pick any game from his catalogue. Played a ton of games.
Anyone else have the snobby kid in your neighborhood that had ALL the games?
Yep lol they was always that kid who had the all the games lolAnyone else have the snobby kid in your neighborhood that had ALL the games?
Games were only expensive in the 80s/90s if you limited yourself to consoles, avoided trade-ins, the second hand market, swapping games with friends, cover discs...Kids today will have grown up with free to play games, consoles with Xbox and PSN sales, Stream sales, giveaways with subscriptions, humble bundle, mobile games, emulators that run on everything, etc
I dont think so, the 'Gamestop' kind of shops robbed kids, giving them essentially pennies for trade in games. Sold used games for 5 DeutschMark less then new (like 5 Dollars off). PC games where still expensive and came in a big ass card box. There was no e-Bay, or Craigslist back then.Games were only expensive in the 80s/90s if you limited yourself to consoles, avoided trade-ins, the second hand market, swapping games with friends, cover discs...
Yeah, there were plenty of cheap options back then.
No, because I had a C64 and Amiga where you could get hundreds of games for like £2 each. And even later on PC, shareware was a huge thing so I played a ton of "first episodes" (eg Doom).