sixteen-bit
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1991 TV news story: 'Parents Upset Over a New Nintendo Console"
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Inflation?
grimshawish
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Only just noticed this was bumped. How random.
Yeah, I just came across it and had to comment
not to mention, lets others see it that haven't. 
This guy.
Better than most gaming news stories >_>
This guy.
Hilarious.
Ah, 90s gaming.
My parents refused to buy me a Gameboy because my Dad said I'd be bored with it in two weeks. I think he thought it was glorified game and watch or something. It took me months to save up the money to buy one and when I did my Dad kept robbing it off me to play Tetris.
I still remind him of that from time to time.
My parents refused to buy me a Gameboy because my Dad said I'd be bored with it in two weeks. I think he thought it was glorified game and watch or something. It took me months to save up the money to buy one and when I did my Dad kept robbing it off me to play Tetris.
I still remind him of that from time to time.
sixteen-bit
Member
You sound like a Nintendependent.
stuminus3
Member
Jesus H Christ @ that 1990 console wars video. I'm always telling you young 'uns to chill out because there's nothing happening today that hasn't happened decades ago. And there it is, right on the nose. I laughed out loud when the lady at the end said "reports are saying they're on their last legs".
HamPster PamPster
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I miss big hair
exmachina64
Banned
On the first page it says it would only be approximately $300.
Parallax Scroll
Banned
She says "at the what, the manufacturer." Not weapon manufacturer.
The japanese boxart says "super mario world - super Mario Bros 4"
Exactly. People also forget that if you take mid to early 90's inflation into account and look at what the price of Super NES games would be in 2012 currency, it's close to $100 and even $120 for some games like Final Fantasy VI.
And people bitch about $60 games. Plastic cartridges and ROM chips are expensive!
Final Fantasy VI was released in 1994 at $80 USD retail. In 2012 USD that is just pennies away from $120. The buying power of that $80 in 1994 is closer to $55 in 2012.
Likewise the SNES itself was released in 1991 at $199 USD, which in 2012 USD is about $325. So still relatively normal for a console price to today, just a bit less. It was the games that were killer expensive in the 90's.
Sentenza
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Except the "single console" concept should work in an entirely different way, in principle.
No one right in his mind was asking for a single manufacturer monopolizing the industry.
EDIT: AAAAAnd I'm answering to one year old post now. Great.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Saved for future hilarity.
I'm 36 and still regularly feel like that when I play the best of the best. The only real difference now is that I can afford more games, so I don't have to play the same one over and over and over for months on end.
Holy shit at the end of that video. Nintendo had people you could call that would tell you how to beat their games?
http://youtu.be/nwd56K7rp7A?t=8m48s
wat
Zoe
Member
They even advertised it in The Wizard.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
I called a couple times. Once for Mystic Quest(embarrassing) and once for Ninja Turtles. I got grounded because they charged for it. I think it was like $5 a minute. The internet changed everything.
evil solrac v3.0
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yeah, it was great!
KojiKnight
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Going to have to book mark this and pull it out every time someone says "Nintendo used to care about power!"
Five-hundred and ninety-nine US dollars.
Manmademan
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The neo geo was out at around the same time for $999
It launched at $649.99 in the US in 1991, which in 2012 USD is a little over $1,000.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
This guy.
Can we get an edit where it says "Live Game Journalist" as the text.
terrisus
Member
And, to be fair, I knew all of one person in 1991 who had a Neo Geo - another kid at the private school I went to that year, which cost a bunch of money to attend and so most of whose parents had plenty of money. The rest of us got SNESs.
But they don't even say that. He says games are the most important thing, which has always been true. They still competed in the power race until Wii.
MrCunningham
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Maybe, but he was still one of the best business men Sega of America has ever had. Too bad his constant battles with the Sega of Japan lead him to be ousted from the company though. Sega of America pretty well crumbled right around the time of his departure. With all the stupid hardware decisions Sega of Japan were making at that point, things were already going in that direction anyway. But still.
You know he was only saying that because the SNES wasn't out in the Westren market at that point, and the Genesis was the technically superior machine compared to their NES. He was just pushing the "but you don't need good graphics to have fun" PR just to push more NES sales. But they were boasting big time about the superior SNES hardware when it did hit western shores. They also did the same thing for the N64 before it was released, marketing it having superior hardware over the competition. But I think the N64 also humbled them as well, leading the company to their current state of releasing modest hardware.
Ya, that's pretty crazy actually. It did come with Mario and Duck Hunt, though. That's a pretty hefty value.
I had the one with Mario, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Everyone else I knew only had the Mario/DH duo cartridge. All I did in WCTM was slap my hands against the Power Pad anyway, I was like 4.
Sho_Nuff82
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I remember reading zillions magazine back in the 90s (a consumer advocate mag for tweens that basically told you never to buy anything popular), and they had a comic spoofing the console upgrade cycle around the time the Saturn released.
I think the ipad cycle would have broken their fragile minds.
I think the ipad cycle would have broken their fragile minds.
Manmademan
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I thought the deluxe set was the one that came with ROB and gyromite. NO ONE had that one- nintendo just used it as a way to sneak the nes into retailers skittish about carrying a game system
MrCunningham
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Keep in mind that the Deluxe Set was this model:
Which came with ROB the Robot. "The Action Set", or whatever it was called with just the Zapper and two controllers was like $50.00 cheaper or something. I think?
I was born in 1985, so I have no idea where my parents got the three-game cartridge from. I always just thought it was odd when I went over to my friend's houses and they had the two-game cart.
Yeah the Action Set I believe was $199.99, thats the one that most people had with Mario/Duck Hut/Zapper. Still that was a pretty penny back then.Keep in mind that the Deluxe Set was this model:
Which came with ROB the Robot. "The Action Set", or whatever it was called with just the Zapper and two controllers was like $50.00 cheaper or something. I think?
Manmademan
Member
It was a later package that came out to promote the power pad. The NES was probably getting long in the tooth by then, and might have been thought up to compete with the Genesis. Don't quote me on that one though
terrisus
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Yes, that is the one my parents bought. I did a Google search on it and found that it was released in 1990.
So if you bought an NES in the 80's you probably got the Mario/Duck Hunt two-game cart.
Today a part of my childhood has been explained.