Same here, I was a NES then Sega Genesis (I think it was called the Master System in your neck of the woods) kid and rented games all the time because my parent

Same here, I was a NES then Sega Genesis (I think it was called the Master System in your neck of the woods) kid and rented games all the time because my parents didn't have money laying around to just buy every game I wanted -- in the US new games back then were still $60, which years ago was a lot of money, and still is (imho). Some were even more than that -- I distinctly remember saving up allowances and lawn-mowing money for months to buy the Star Wars NES game from Sears, which costed $80. And it ended up being terrible. You live & learn :) My renting habits continued on through the Sega CD, PSX, and Sega Dreamcast (what a great system this was, mainly because CD burners were becoming cheap and you didn't need a hardware modification of your console to play burned games -- yes, I pirated the hell out of them [hello #kalisto and #echelon from EFnet] and this probably led to the console dying out long before it should have but I was a kid below the legal working age I couldn't buy them even though I wanted to.