/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10697202]

Should I buy SNES Ultimate Mortal Kombat for $70, or PS1 Tekken 2 for $50?

[Anonymous No.10697212]

>>10697202
Bloody Roar is superior to both options.

[Anonymous No.10697220]

>>10697202
You should buy Yoshi's Island because it will retain its value 30 years later and you can get your money back!

[Anonymous No.10697221]

Catalog prices were always overpriced compared to what you'd find in stores

[Anonymous No.10697227]

>>10697202
[/spoiler]Just emulate, faggot.[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.10697242]

They always post Canadian Toys R Us prices.

[Anonymous No.10697247]

>>10697242
No, these are Canadian prices

[Anonymous No.10697252]

>>10697202
I buy Alpha 2 on SNES for that sweet sprite-based intro that the PS1 port lacked and don't care about the short load times because it's still less loading than on PS1.

[Anonymous No.10697269]

$60 in 1995 is $120 today.

Man, they had some nerve selling those games for that amount of money.

Some of those SNES games were unplayable garbage, like the Beavis and Butthead game or Dennis the Menace. I can't believe the disappointment someone would have paying that much for one of those games only to turn it off after a few minutes lol

[Anonymous No.10697280]

>>10697269
You played what you had. If you were a kid and you had those games you'd have put many hours in over the years, if you never beat it. You could always let friends borrow it in exchange for something more fun too. But you faggots are underage and have no friends, so...

[Anonymous No.10697318]

>>10697269
There used to be a time where people only got 1 or 2 games per year. Sometimes more if they were on discounted prices for being 1+ year old.

[Anonymous No.10697328]

why do i vividly remember nes/snes games being $49.99?

[Anonymous No.10697331]

>>10697269
>$60 in 1995 is $120 today.

Yes but the cost of living was smaller. All your daily expenses, gas, electricity, food, bills, etc everything represented a lower percentage of your income, leaving more for leisure. So games were more expensive, but also more affordable.
Back then all you needed to get a loan for a house was a couple both having a job. Nowadays in most developped country that's not enough anymore. People have less money to spend at the end of the month.

[Anonymous No.10697335]

>>10697328
Probably 1996 prices.
Anyway, yeah, video games used to be a luxury but remember there was rental stores and trading games with friends. Alien concepts for zoomers.

[Anonymous No.10697339]

>>10697280
>>10697318
These. Games were also pretty much just another past time among others for the majority of kids, along with playing with actual toys and, you know, playing outside, riding your bike, etc. I'm sure there were shut-in kids like myself who only wanted to play vidya, but for most others, they'd maybe play for a little bit, maybe with a friend, then move on to something else, then another thing, etc. So yeah, you'd get only a couple of games a year, but same with action figures, board games, skates or whatever else.

[Anonymous No.10697346]

>>10697328
Catalogs always had higher prices because they prayed on people living far from big city stores. I remember the very same game would always be 5-10 bucks more expensive in a catalog. It's the polar opposite of todays where internet prices tend to be lower than irl.

[Anonymous No.10697350]

I distinctly remember Chrono Trigger being 80 dollars but my mommy still got it for my birthday because I’m a special boy.

[Anonymous No.10697401]

>>10697328
NES and SNES games were priced based mostly on cartridge size. There was no one set price.

[Anonymous No.10697516]

I do remember buying NES/SNES games for $1 out of plastic diary crates in 2001, THOSE were the times when I said fuck it and went retro

[Anonymous No.10697556]

>>10697346
>they prayed on people

[Anonymous No.10697574]

>>10697202
you should buy sfa2 dummy it mogs the living shit out of both

[Anonymous No.10697654]

>>10697202
No needing to buy a new console and no load times for UMK3. Also, kill yourself, PS1fag spammer.

[Anonymous No.10697754]

>>10697269
I never purchased or had purchased for me a new Genesis game, ever. Cartridges were basically impossible to damage without physically destroying the connectors or something crazy like that so there was basically no reason not to buy them used outside of needing to have the new game RIGHT NOW(!!!). We were not at all well to do when I was a kid but I had around 10 games at any given time. I expect the experience was similar for a kid who owned a SNES, you could just get a used game for $15-20 and if it really sucked take it back to the store because most places would let you swap it for store credit or just trade it for something of the same price.

You could also barter with other kids and trading / borrowing between people was very common. I knew a couple kids who traded their actual consoles since SNES and Genesis had pretty different libraries and everything was of roughly equal value at the time.

All of that is lost today because of digital purchases and non-transferable games. Even if you traded someone an X-Box 1 for their PS5 you would have to also trade your entire account or it wouldn't work at all.

[Anonymous No.10698076]

>>10697754
>All of that is lost today because of digital purchases and non-transferable games
To be fair, games themselves comparatively now is cheaper than they were then. New games are just starting to go above the $60 mark, which is half that in, say, 1996 dollars.
Don't get me wrong, the whole digital shit and 'we can rescind your privilege (!) to play the game you paid for at any time' and things like that make me absolutely sick, but games themselves are simply way cheaper now than they used to be for old cartridge-based systems when physical copies are available.

[Anonymous No.10698641]

>>10697350
Your mom rocks.

[Anonymous No.10698772]

>>10697242
Toys R Us and Software Etc. were often the most expensive place for console games. Of course, walmart, target, mom and pop rental places and used game stores were the cheapest option.

[Anonymous No.10698824]

>>10697202
I never understood why we only had like 4 SNES games until many years later.

[Anonymous No.10698852]

>>10697269
Our Economy didnt sucked back then and people had more money back then!

[Anonymous No.10698854]

>>10697280
>>10697339
Also dont forget, Rentals, specially Ma and Pa places.

[Anonymous No.10698859]

>>10697212
>le underrated fighting game

[Anonymous No.10698867]

>>10698854
Yeah rentals were super common back then. And you could pick up games at a deep discount if you waited for them to get put in the discount bin, and Funcoland and other such stores were a thing too

[Anonymous No.10698881]

>>10697202
just mod your snes and burn your own cartridge

[Anonymous No.10698884]

$69.99 in 90s bucks is ~$214.99 in 2024 bucks

[Anonymous No.10698904]

Did you know ? 60$ in 1995 is 2540$ today.

Remember that when you complain about me reselling that game for only 540$, I'm making you a deal here!

[Anonymous No.10698923]

>>10698904
tard

[Anonymous No.10699657]

>>10698852

Still, some of those games were unplayable garbage.

Have you ever played the Beavis and Butthead game or Dennis the Menace for the Super Nintendo?

I wouldn't pay $5 for either of those games. I couldn't imagine paying a lot of money for them back in the 90s.

[Anonymous No.10700749]

>>10698884
This is why ROMs should be legal and encouraged by the industry. Not only are they vital for archival purposes, we already paid for all these games when they were expensive. How many weeks of allowance did you have to save up to buy one of those cartridges? How many mowed lawns? How many mindless chores? What was the Christmas gift opportunity cost of selecting these games?

The cost was really fucking high back when the survival of the industry was by no means certain. We built and shaped it with our loyalty and hard-earned money. My family paid $70 at Toy-R-Us for SMB3 for the NES and it was worth every penny.

[Anonymous No.10701331]

>>10698076
You will own nothing, and you will be happy

[Anonymous No.10701357]

>>10697202
$15 for a first party controller is pretty fucking decent.

[Anonymous No.10701423]

>>10697202
>SNES Ultimate Mortal Kombat for $70
I'll sell you SNES Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for $250, it's a rare unreleased version where it has characters from the other 2 games

[Anonymous No.10701465]

>>10697202
>buy

[Anonymous No.10701527]

>>10697556
Country folk tend to be more religious. Also they have a mistrust of technology.
not a criticism of you specifically, anon, because por spelling irks me too, but I have noticed this kind of response being used as a substitute for intelligent repartee a lot lately. Honestly, it's fine in moderation or when not handwaving to a legitimate argument. Sorry if the blog bored you just had to get that off my back

[Anonymous No.10701532]

>por spelling
And look at me go now.

[Anonymous No.10703673]

>>10697202
karen