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