Remember how shit gaming was in the 80s/90s? so much shovelware. So many shit games. remember getting pure diarrhea for gifts. Like the 7up game and Wayne's world for snes. You had no idea if a game was good because there wasn't any internet. You could ask the fucking weirdos that worked at the stores but they always seemed to have a hidden agenda and they were fucking freaks. You would literally have to do research by picking up every gaming magazine every month to figure out what was even good. People talk about how good everything was back in the day but gaming was fucking ass. Pure unfiltered dog shit straight to your brain. And games were like $100 too back then. You want Zelda on snes well the cart was $100 USD.

Think that's why blockbuster was so popular

ps1 was great for game price. New games were $40 or $50 and $20 greatest titles were everywhere

>>713405245 (OP)
>You want Zelda on snes well the cart was $100 USD.
You outed yourself here. We could rent games back then.

>>713405245 (OP)
Journos are worthless. Word of mouth existed back then and was relatively reliable.

You're right, it's true and I did get some random ass games as gifts but you know what? I still enjoyed it. I wasn't jaded or cynical yet and appreciated most of the gifts my parents got me. My parents also let me rent a lot of games so I got to try a lot of things on the nes/snes up until the 00s so it was a fun time trying things out because it was new and novel to me. Now I have no energy to even try even whatever is the big "main stream titles" and just grab random shit because it's all bad

>>713405425
Yeah all the poor kids had a ps1. I remember I would go to my poor friends house with a group of us and it was always so fucking disappointing cuz you could only play 2 player multi-player. I remember telling my poor friends multitap exists. We could be playing 4 player nhl but they were too ghetto to buy more controllers. Hated that shit. Gaming in the 90s sucked dick.

>>713405245 (OP)
>And games were like $100 too back then. You want Zelda on snes well the cart was $100 USD.
No they weren't.

>>713405597
In the 2010s me and my friend used to skip computer class to smoke weed and play the n64 version of nfl blitz
I think n64 was better than ps1 for multiplayer

>>713405245 (OP)
>mario 64, OOT, FFVII, FFVIII, pokemon gen 1, MGS, Resident Evil, kart 64 all within the span of 3 years along with countless other classics that are still being played and discussed decades later

meanwhile there have been 0 games in the past 5 years anyone will give a shit about by 2030

>>713405597
All I remember was everyone playing games together on either console and having fun.

gen 5 was the peak of innovative and passionate game design and I feel bad for any zoomtard or boomer who missed out on it.

>>713405245 (OP)
Every game wasn't Virtua Racing. I think the most expensive 4th and 5th gen games were rpgs at like $80 due to the rom size and having battery backup for saves

>>713405245 (OP)
wasnt this debunked as canadian prices

>>713405565
Seriously? I remember getting such shit games for presents that it would ruin my year. Like you get games maybe twice a year and I get fucking wink the 7up major game and Wayne's world. I played them each maybe for 3 days and was like this is unplayable garbage. So I'm forced to play nhl 94 for another 10 months until my birthday to try again. But I've been fucking playing nhl 94 for 2 years because every year my retarded family gets me some tacobell game or some fucking bullshit movie game like Ritchie rich or.fucking home alone. Like Holy shit these games weren't even functional.

>>713405245 (OP)
>cost of living was significantly lower
>people had more disposable income for shit games

>>713405245 (OP)
I remember my parents taking me to Toys R Us and getting new games for $40 - $50
>t. middle class american from a middle class family who's dad complained about the price of everything and still does

>You would literally have to do research by picking up every gaming magazine every month to figure out what was even good.
You rented it at Blockbuster for a few dollars or played it with one of your friends you fucking stupid zoomer

>>713406416
I just played bomberman 24 against my parents ans they would never win and rage after like 30 minutes and then I would have to play the computer.

>>713406523
Blockbuster? Wow fancy stuff asshole. I lived in the middle of nowhere. I had to go to jumbo video and super video 95 that were basically just Asian owned conveince store that had an isle of movies. Renting wasn't an option when you would only go into town once every few months

>>713405425
you could get a Big Mac for $3 and it was a lot bigger back then aswell

>>713405597
One of the worst posts I've seen in a while

>>713405245 (OP)
We pretend such things never happened and only the good existed.

>>713406641
That's a personal problem. Seethe harder

>>713406854
The good was playing goldeneye with your friends

You are all full of shit. So many kids would get fucked for failing in grades and you'd pick up half their collection for 10 to 50 bucks at a garage sale. Also everyone had bros to swap games with. I played tons of games for free or cheap.

>>713405245 (OP)
>that 7up game
you fucking talking shit on cool spot motherfucker?

>>713405245 (OP)
Yeah there were too many games and too little access to information. People will never know what that's like. Imagine waking to a giant wall of games and you never heard of any of them before and you can't look up any info. You just had to pick a game at random.

>>713406656
Big macs were $1 for most of the 90s.

My parents just got me the nintendo games and they were pretty much always good

>>713405245 (OP)
only on pretendo they were expensive

fuck nintendo sega should have won. If the future was Sony and Sega, we would be in the golden age of gamingg

>>713405245 (OP)
Carts were expensive. The PS1 was very good on pricing due to the lower cost of discs.

>>713407395
One time I got the barbie game for snes and shadow man for dreamcast

>>713405245 (OP)
>buying shittendo games
lmao, it is always obvious who are the nnitendo babies when someone claims gaming have always been expensive

>>713405245 (OP)
Fun fact.
PC games and PS1 titles cost like 40-50$ in the 90s.
Only Nintendo games cost extra because of expensive cartridges they came on especially during the n64 era.
FFVII on release cost 50$ and its was a massive 3 Disc game.

Anyone defending Nintendo prices because Nintendo chose to use inferior cartriges just a massive bootlicker who worships there own childhood like a religion.

>>713408808
$40 is the equivalent of $90 back when Doom released in 1993

Remember when N64 games came out to $64.64 after tax. Thats over $128 in today’s money.

>>713409035
whole lot cheaper than overpriced nintendo games

>>713405245 (OP)
Hate to be an ass about it, but what you describe, OP, is not exactly true.
Before the internet, you had BBS'. Not only janky neighborhood/state ones, but major national providers such as Prodigy, Compuserve, and the OG version of AOL. These commercial BBS' also had forums, where among all the other usual shit, video games were discussed and primitive help, movelists, and opinions were exchanged.
By the early 90s, internet also existed not only on college campus', but in various forms such as early dial-up SLIP and direct shell access(a favored feature of "AA"-tier BBS'). By the mid-90s, full SLIP/PPP dial-up was found even in rural communities.
These resources existed alongside game magazines, primitive weekend TV content spawned by that before techtv/G4 were a thing, and obviously word of mouth among your friends and schoolmates.
tl;dr stop pretending you fucking zoomie, you weren't there and it's obvious.

>>713405245 (OP)
Now tell me about
>groceries
>apartment rents
>opportunity for not making shit wage

>>713405245 (OP)
>heaps of different consoles available
>games took 3 to 18 months to develop, so every single week there were dozens of new releases
>every single console had exclusives
>arcades were still a thing and had superior graphics and sound than you could get at home, and beautiful RGB monitors
>every system had its own graphics and sound hardware, meaning every system looked and sounded completely different
>dev budgets were small, so studios were able to take chances and you got an amazing variety of gameplay
>iteration and progress was visible, even from one year to the next you would see humungous improvements in graphics and sound technology
>nearly all of the best games ever made came out during that era

Yeah it was awful lol.

>>713409440
These prices are sp high wtf.

No, I remember how shit your stale template bait threads are.

The worst thing about gaming in the 90s was the whole PC gaming industry. It was literally a dice roll if any particular game was compatible with your specific PC, most retailers had a no return policy on software, and state-of-the-art PCs would become hopelessly obsolete in two years tops.

>>713409712
And demos didn't exist.

>>713405245 (OP)
That's why n64 was nice there were few games made for it but most were good. Where as PS1 had a billion games but who the fuck new what was good back then

>>713409741
Yes they did.
I used to get them off an ancient website called Happypuppy.com.

>>713409870
>who the fuck new what was good back then
Magazines existed.
Plus you could rent shit.
That was the beauty of it - taking a punt and renting stuff you didn't know anything about. A lot of the time you came away with absolute gold that you never would have imagined liking.

Everyone read magazines and everyone rented games for 5 bucks. You only bought the big ticket "this is the best shit ever released for the system" releases or games from companies you already knew.

>>713410126
The ps1 also had demo discs out the ass. I remember getting and borrowing a bunch back then. A lot of good games were on multiple demo discs like mgs. That game was everywhere back then

>$80-90 game -> $40 ps1-ps2 game
the past is all a blur, why did games drop from these ridiculous prices like in OPs example to something reasonable like during the ps2 era

>>713406183
Probably. I have an old funko land catalog from 2001 and only the newest games are above 60 and it's because they're cartridges

>>713410326
cd and dvds are cheap to produce and game budgets hadn't gotten retardedly high yet

>>713405245 (OP)
>implying I ever paid for games

>>713409440
>cod fillets and shrimp more expensive per pound than crab legs
uh excuse me but what the fuck

>super expensive stores sold games for 70 bucks
>but the prices on new released games dropped to half price after just a few months
>and if you didn't have money you could just buy them used for a lot cheaper
>games you bought also HAD A VALUE and you could trade/sell them
>consoles cost like 100 bucks vs 600 bucks today
Why are they so disingenuous about the "old price" discussion?

>>713405597
Good lord what a retard. I owned an N64 and even I knew I fucked up.
Don't get me wrong, the good games on the n64 were REALLY GOOD, but it didn't make up for the absolute desert of variety the system had and the prices we needed to pay for that blurry mess.

>>713405740
It was only better for 4 player multiplayer. Ps1 ruled the 2 player space.

>>713405245 (OP)
>prices would decrease
>lots of stores had sales
>used market was decent
>implying Nintendo wasn't overpriced from the start
The market was different back then, and some select ads from select times doesn't reflect the whole picture.

>>713405245 (OP)
>rent for $2
>buy used
>trade
>greatest hits $25-$40 new
>god tier games coming out every 3 months on every platform
>games for gamers by gamers

golden era

From one of my old magazines

>>713405245 (OP)
Games also sold like shit back then because there were so few gamers. Nice try niggerman

>>713412685
Bump

>>713412047
That's so excitable m expensive

>>713405597
This is weak bait