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Game Pricing. Anyone Remember Phantasy Star 4?

SkylineRKR

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Yeah 16 bit games were really expensive and cost like 5% of average monthly income over here. They cost the same amount as they do now, but try 30 years ago. Distribution was a nightmare too. Some games I would just never be able to find, this was fairly normal.

The result was you likely had some 2 ish games per year, perhaps another one as a bargain or traded with a friend. And those games would've been rinsed. This is why many kids actually managed to beat quite difficult games while gamers today are deemed too stupid and the attention span shortened because of the many options there are now.
 
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