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Anonymous Mon Dec 23 21:08:39 2019 No.6090352 [Reply] [Original]

>Spending 100-300 dollars for a video game in the 90s

Did any of you boomers actually do this?

>>	Father Electronics Couture Mon Dec 23 21:23:07 2019 No.6090378 For complete functioning arcade cabinets, yeah. I did.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 21:26:05 2019 No.6090382 >nooooo stop owning things! it's just plastic! sell them to me for cheap! zoomers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 21:35:41 2019 No.6090401 >>6090352 millennialcucks spend 400 for an old one today

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 21:35:49 2019 No.6090403 It was pretty scarce. I only knew one friend-of-friend that owned a Neo Geo that didn't even live in the same city.

Anonymous Mon Dec 23 22:00:15 2019 No.6090454

>>6090403
I hate these thread, it's like we are supposed to pretend 300 dollars isn't 50 cents to a rich person. I read in a 90's playboy about a basketball game that used a camera to put you in game and cost 30 grand and 15 if you were ok with a black silhouette.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 22:10:16 2019 No.6090471 >>6090352 Sure. I spent a lot more than that.

Anonymous Mon Dec 23 22:13:54 2019 No.6090476

>>6090352
I bought a neo geo aes in 93. And like 10 to 15 carts throughout the nineties. Back then the average nintendo idiot would give you funny looks when you bought a 300$ aes game at the store. Its like their lizard brains wanted to scream at you, dude dude you are about t get ripped off so badly. Since then nothing has changed. The abstract concept of material worth makes their peanut brains spin.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 22:16:55 2019 No.6090480 >>6090476 Pretty sure most people would balk at the idea of spending that much on one game.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 22:23:17 2019 No.6090489 >>6090476 I suppose buying 300 dollars worth of shitty games would make sense to them cause there is more!

Anonymous Mon Dec 23 22:24:12 2019 No.6090491

>>6090480
I wasn#t even a rich kid. I had to work, sell stuff and save up for new games. But i rather purchased 1 glorious neo geo cart than 4 mediocre snes games.

>>6090382
Emulation is to blame. It opened the doors wide for this whole entitlement culture we have now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 22:28:29 2019 No.6090498 >>6090491 >I wasn#t even a rich kid. 1800-555-come-on-now

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 22:34:30 2019 No.6090508 >>6090352 No one I knew had a Neo Geo or was even interested. Lynx was about as exotic as it got around my parts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 22:36:59 2019 No.6090514 >>6090508 >was even interested I saw the arcade cabinets everywhere and liked the name cause it rhymed. Lynx I never heard of till way later. I knew a kid with sega channel and one that wanted a jaguar

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 00:31:22 2019 No.6090708

>>6090498
its not like its hard to make money when you're a kid, anon.. just sell to the rich people. Sold candy and mowed lawns at a few lawns at 5 bucks a pop every week at age 10 and used that money to buy a self propelled mower, the next summer I mowed 30 lawns a week. I used that money to buy a vending machine off a guy my dad knew, and put it in my dads work. Made lots of money that way. Used that money to buy a cd burner then sold 'mixtapes' for shitloads of money. Pet/house/baby sitting made me ton of money too. Don't hire a pubescent kid to watch your house while your gone because he will do some pretty perverted stuff in it.

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 01:59:09 2019 No.6090790

>>6090708
I always hated the fact that everyone under the level of billionaire considers them selves "average" at the very least. Fucking mr I had an AES in 93 and yet was not a rich kid over here is not aware of the fact that other kids had jobs but needed to help pay bills.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 02:34:15 2019 No.6090834 >>6090708 >Don't hire a pubescent kid to watch your house while your gone because he will do some pretty perverted stuff in it. What were you doing?

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:49:07 2019 No.6090913

>>6090834
I wasnt the guy who owned the AES. I spent my money on new ventures to make more money, or at least tried to. I never felt the need to spend money because I had a diverse set of friends with cool shit, none of them were really rich either, they all just had that one "cool thing". A friend with a conversion van w/ tv, another had a trampoline and kettcar, one had a rope tow on a hill we'd use to sled for days straight, etc. I had a good childhood, thanks for the reminder :)
>>6090834
I dunno man it was a long time ago. Don't want to get off topic. Use your imagination I guess.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 09:29:44 2019 No.6091294 >>6090352 Cathy is hot af hnggg

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 09:37:56 2019 No.6091304 >>6091294 it's a drawing, she's not real you fucking weeb

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 10:23:15 2019 No.6091371 >>6090352 Not without taking out another eighteen paper rounds...

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 10:27:06 2019 No.6091375 >>6091304 I know bro, but still...

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 11:49:01 2019 No.6093248

>>6090352
>Did any of you boomers actually do this?
nobody could afford to own a neogeo except arcade owners. they were so expensive that they were only sold in tiny numbers and only specialized gaming shops would stock the software or the machines themselves. they were incredibly rare to see outside of the arcade industry.
>>6090491
>i rather purchased 1 glorious neo geo cart than 4 mediocre snes games
congratulations?
>Emulation is to blame. It opened the doors wide for this whole entitlement culture we have now.
fascinating. are you mad you just can't sell your garbage baseball stars cartridge for over $500 because everyone has played it in mame or fba and knows it's shit? collectors are by far the biggest parasites.
> oh i must have every ROM that's ever been ripped!
> oh, rip my ROMS? no thanks.
> you mean i have to open the original box to play it?????
> COPY PROTECTIONS?!?! I CAN'T CRACK THOSE!!11
> GIMME FREE SHIT, MR HACKERMAN. YOU PAY FOR IT!
this is why collectors need to be gassed. all we need now are ovens large enough to take elephant-sized fatties. the most useless waste of human beings this universe has ever seen.

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 15:56:14 2019 No.6093642

>>6093248
>nobody could afford to own a neogeo except arcade owners
They sold about a million AES sport. And half a million CDs, which is also "a neogeo". And god knows how many million NGP/C, which are also "a neo geo" The most useless waste of human beings this universe has ever seen are tards.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 15:58:46 2019 No.6093649 File: 185 KB, 879x670, guybrush_wisdom.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6090352 No, as I wasn't a dumbass.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 16:02:33 2019 No.6093653 >>6090491 If emulating created a sense of entitlement to free shit then explain why zoomers spend many hundreds, even thousands of dollars on dlc/microtransactions

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 17:09:57 2019 No.6093792 >>6093653 They don't have to pay daddys credit card bill

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 19:27:46 2019 No.6094012 It took me a decade to realise that buying a new "polystation" or some other shit once per year wasn't normal. Nor the monthly purchase of controllers... At least it was cheap, with 100 bucks I had maybe a 100 games.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 23:05:30 2019 No.6094321 File: 1.34 MB, 2029x2545, Screenshot_20191225-230418_GAMEYE.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Nope. Facebook marketplace, yard sales, thrift stores, and private collectors are your friends for this very reason.

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 23:21:11 2019 No.6094340

>>6090352
The most expensive Retro Game I ever got was the Lunar Silver Star Story: complete

But it came with a really nicely made instruction booklet complete with a sample of the walkthrough up to the 2nd boss, A replica of the pendant the main girl wears and a cloth map of the game world.

I didn't get the punching puppet, though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 00:14:14 2019 No.6094382 >>6090476 >would give you funny looks when you bought a 300$ aes game Probably because that's completely fucking stupid. >Getting tricked into paying $300 for a game This is some hard coping you've created.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 11:05:07 2019 No.6094950 >>6094382 >paying $300 for a game is "getting tricked" >games are worth 5 times that amount, used, now. Also >market value >trick Ok kid

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 11:08:02 2019 No.6094954 I didn't, my parents did.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 11:12:55 2019 No.6094962 >>6094340 lunar is based ya did good anon

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 13:44:46 2019 No.6095228 >>6094340 I got Silver Star on Sega CD years ago when I bought my Laseractive. I had no idea it went up in price so much. Sold the LA to a friend at cost but want to buy it back now that I see how much its going for desu

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 08:30:25 2019 No.6096517 >>6090352 KOF94, Metal Slug 2, Fatal Fury 3 Last was a bit of a disappointment. I wish I had held off and bought Realbout instead.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 08:45:37 2019 No.6096531 >>6094321 >tfw bought Misadventures of Tron Bonne at launch with my preorder ticket. Feels good, but then bad when I remember Legends is dead.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 08:50:31 2019 No.6096538 the average big snes and n64 titles costed over $100 if you adjust for inflation

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