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[fluffydelusions]

Some nostalgia for some of us here

 

[pizzapizza64]

Makes my chest hurt.

 

[Chindogg]

If no one thought gaming got cheaper over the years, check out those SNES game prices.

 

[BinaryPork2737]

$60 for Sonic 3D Blast.

Wow. I felt ripped off just by looking at that ad.

 

[GamerJM]

I feel like I've seen this very ad get posted before.

Still interesting regardless, especially as someone who is too young to remember 1996. Those SNES game prices were outrageous!

 

[superNESjoe]

I always source things like this when people tell me games are more expensive now then they've ever been.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that snes and genesis games were upwards of 70 or 80 dollars on the high end.

 

[Banjotanooki]

SNES games were $70?!?!?

I'm never complaining about current gen prices ever again...0_o

 

[Beerman462]

If no one thought gaming got cheaper over the years, check out those SNES game prices.

Yup, I paid $80 for FFIII day one...No regrets...

 

[Jigolo]

The more things change the more things stay the same. Ads look almost exactly the same today. The setup that is

 

[Nanashrew]

Ah yeeeahhhh. Yoshi's Island! that was my game.

 

[blackjaw]

Love it, I use to literally circle entire pages in those days.

 

[FTF]

SNES games were $70?!?!?

I'm never complaining about current gen prices ever again...0_o

lol yup, I remember paying $70 for SFII when it came out…don't know how long it took me to save up for it, but it was freakin worth it haha

 

[Velcro Fly]

Pretty sure I got Yoshi's Island and a Super GameBoy that year for Christmas

Probably the best holiday ever

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

What would those SNES game prices be once adjusted for inflation? Surely over $100. Yeesh.

 

[BY2K]

Wow, the Saturn, the N64 AND the original PlayStation were all 199$?

 

[george_us]

Those handheld game prices are pretty surprising. Some of those aren't much less than 3DS game prices. The ones that are $19.99 could be do to just those titles being older.

 

[Lambda Pie]

If no one thought gaming got cheaper over the years, check out those SNES game prices.

and let's not even mention Neo Geo game prices.

 

[Polioliolio]

MOre.. post more!!

 

[Takamura-San]

That Jeopardy cover doe

 

[SoulUnison]

"Buy a Sega Saturn and get 3 free games!"

Ouch.

 

[lt519]

Those cartridge prices... I remember some shortages initially for 64 and places jacking up prices to near $100.

Holy shit though, $15 controller for SNES. What's a typical msrp on controllers now $60, give me a break

 

[EroticSushi]

I don't remember games being $60 back then. Funny how it's still $60 today, just without all the DLC mumbo jumbo.

 

[Kuroyume]

Only one I never owned was the Saturn. Oh well, at least I got a chance to play a version of VOOT on xbla, and I have a copy of Nights on steam. Most of its best games made their way onto DD services though right?

 

[BruiserBear]

I loved the N64. Some great memories.

 

[Killer]

If no one thought gaming got cheaper over the years, check out those SNES game prices.

Cartridges are expensive.

 

[lupinko]

If you thought that was bad, go see what the Canadian prices were back then.

$94 Mega Man X comes to mind.

Only one I never owned was the Saturn. Oh well, at least I got a chance to play a version of VOOT on xbla, and I have a copy of Nights on steam. Most of its best games made their way onto DD services though right?

No, there's a lot of games still left only on the Saturn and in many cases the Saturn version is the definitive version.

 

[Alcoholikaust]

this was me but I was 22- haha (gf bought it for me)

 

[Spinluck]

I got my fist N64 from Toys R Us. My brother peed on it like a year later, and I cannot remember where we got the second one but my mom just came home with a new one like a week later.

Man, the memories. There was a magic to gaming back then.

 

[fireworkfan]

so many memories and just for fun $59.99 for a game then equals out to.............

Spoiler

About $86 now

 

[Vidpixel]

Those video game prices make me feel better about the cost of games nowadays.

 

[Sakura]

Why the hell is the Genesis version of 3D Blast more than the Saturn version?

 

[ladyluthien]

I had one of those gold giga pets when I was a kid. I loved that thing to death. Broke my heart when I lost it one day. Never got over it

 

[CrazyDude]

Why the hell is the Genesis version of 3D Blast more than the Saturn version?

Cause no one had a Saturn.

 

[Banjotanooki]

I miss game slips..

 

[Notker]

No one should assume that SNES games were commonly $70 based on those ads. Games at specialty stores like Toys R Us and Babbages/EB were about $10 more expensive than mass market stores like Target or Wal-Mart. I never paid $70 for a SNES game , and I usually bought them on launch day.

 

[-Deimos]

Nothing stops this 90's nostalgia train.

 

[mdubs]

Well let's be honest, $59.99 in 1996 dollars for Super Mario 64 is and will always be a fair price for one of the greatest games of all time

 

[Big Papa Husker]

Why the hell is the Genesis version of 3D Blast more than the Saturn version?

Its on a cartridge.

I miss game slips..

One of my Toys R Us stores STILL has the slips and is set up this way.

 

[Gusto]

Makes me want to cry

 

[fireworkfan]

I miss game slips..

I miss those too again tons of memories,lots of times i'd just go to toys r' us to play dreamcast lol

 

[TRD Mr Blonde]

1994. I got a playstation with need for speed on my birthday. That is after heavy negotiating.

 

[qazqaNii]

Meh prices meant nothing as it was my dad that were buying the games, although I am still wondering till this day, how I actually chose the games, I don't recall reading about pilotwings, probotector (contra @ eu), but still I have them, gotta ask my father how and why he bought them .

Good ol' times T_T.

Edit: I also don't know why I got myself and PS1 after the SNES, gotta ask that aswell.

 

[ladyluthien]

I miss game slips..

Woah...I forgotten about those!!!

 

[vatstep]

I remember that awesome free game deal with the Saturn. Almost made me get one.

 

[foxdvd]

Why the hell is the Genesis version of 3D Blast more than the Saturn version?

blast processing

 

[Nif]

I remember that one very well. It made me want a N64 that christmas. Had that picture of mario on my wall that whole december

 

[cr_blah_blah]

I can't even imagine how much of a pain it was for EA to port the same games to 5 completely different systems.

 

[mrmickfran]

Didn't Ocarina of Time launch for $80? lol

 

[Qblivion]

Seeing stuff like this makes me regret ever selling any of my childhood games. I've rebought them as an adult but they aren't the same ones

 

[U2NUMB]

I miss game slips..

Man... so many memories...time just flies by.