1992 Games Catalog

[Megatron]

I saw this and had to share.  A nice throwback back to 1992.  And for those too young to remember (or weren't around yet) check out what games were going for...kind of makes a flat $59.99 a pretty decent deal.  Especially when you consider $59.99 in 1992 = $101.38 today.

http://imgur.com/gallery/kkEi3

[sheep2001]

Tg16 was a bargain though!  Not sure why every home didn't have one for that price!

[Megatron]

Well, at about $120, it was a tad higher than NES, and had practically no games anybody heard of.  Looking back though...yeah.

And technically, TMNT 4 went for $106, so people upset it costs $40 now are still getting a bargain compared to those who got it new.

I wish I had my current bank account back then...would have taken gaming to a whole other level.

[Leatherrebel5150]

It's weird to see that new games didn't have a standardized price yet. I was upset when new games went from the typical $50 to $60. But seeing that new games than were all over the place and all the good ones were $60 back then, it makes sense why most kids only had a handful of games for any given system.

[wiggy]

^^^ Lucky they didn't show Final Fantasy 2 in that ad. It was typically in the $70 range. FF3 & Chrono Trigger were pricier than anything else that I can recall.  Also, consider that salary increase doesn't run parallel with inflation (quite sadly), so when someone does the math and says "wow, that would be $1,243.67 today!", it's not entirely accurate.

Oh wow!  I'd forgotten about Paint Shop and After Dark  

For the younger guys here, After Dark was a screen saver. Yeah, you had to buy that separately back then

[TDIRunner]

We hardly ever bought games.  In fact when we finally bought a Super Nintendo, we only had 4 NES games that were purchased new (including the one that came with it ).  
•   Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt
•   Super Mario Bros. 2
•   Super Mario Bros. 3
•   Rad Racer

Renting games was just a part of life.  The SNES was no different.  By the time we purchased a PS1, we only had 3 games for the SNES that we purchased new.  
•   Super Mario World
•   Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario World 2
•   Donkey Kong Country

The PlayStation was the first system where I started owning a moderately sized collection of new games.  It’s amazing to think that all of my Nintendo games have been purchased used since then.  

[palmer6strings]

Back when I was a kid, we (as in my parents) were pretty poor, and I would save my "allowance" for my mom and my garage sale adventures. Beings the SNES was only a year or 2 old at that point, I would pick up some really nice games pretty cheap.

For example: I picked up Final Fantasy 2 and 3 (cart only), River City Ransom w/box, and plenty of other NES and SNES games for $5 a pop. Hell my cousin GAVE me one of my favorite games, Chrono Trigger.

Kept me entertained plus wasn't a big expense to myself or my parents.

One of my friends had a lot of Sears and JCPenny holiday catalogs that actually had like a 20 page spread of just video game stuff. Was pretty cool to reminisce looking through it all.

If she still has them, I may scan them in and share them.

[Megatron]

The PlayStation was the first system where I started owning a moderately sized collection of new games. 

I think this happened with a lot of people.  As I recall, CD based games were far cheaper to make than cartridges, so the games averaged about $40 new, and $20-$30 used, where the N64 could be twice that price.  I, too, remember having a handful of games for various systems, and then really starting to build an affordable collection when the PS1 came out. 

[sheep2001]

I've always relied on used games and sale times for my collections.