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It’s hard to believe that people paid $50 for this back in the day. https://books.google.com/books?id=7k7q-wS0t00C&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.go

It’s hard to believe that people paid $50 for this back in the day. https://books.google.com/books?id=7k7q-wS0t00C&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=7k7q-wS0t00C&pg=PA59#v=one...

riedel 5y ago
Wonder why I cannot remember playing anything... Guess many more people will fall in nostalgia than those that ran a legal copy. Probably it would not have been so popular if there hadn't been a price tag on it.
cloudking 5y ago
In it's prime it was estimated to be selling 10,000 units a month! https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-12-30-1991364099-story.html https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-12-30-19913640...
azinman2 5y ago
It’s hard to imagine that everything is “free” now. For context: 1. Megacorps weren’t so mega, so they didn’t provide all this functionality out of the box and generally WANTED 3rd party devs 2. You didn’t have an infinite numbers of things online to grab/use 3. Ad model certainly didn’t exist for software, and VC capital didn’t back the most arbitrary of software 4. Most software was relatively expensive because audience size was far smaller than today 5. People were excited at the random new things their computer could do 6. Screen burn in was a real problem, a new monitor was very expensive, and you rarely bought a new computer
- daodedickinson 5y ago
  1. Horrible abuse from media and devs since before I was born. 2. No one ever has infinite time and I totally understand that there are devs that can currently just grab and use if they're employed. 3. I dunno and defer 4. That makes sense on a first glance but the efficiency of profit will prolly never be like that again? 5. new people are born every day 6. First time I ever experienced screen burn was this month.

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It’s hard to believe that people paid $50 for this back in the day. https://books.google.com/books?id=7k7q-wS0t00C&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.go

by Bluecobra 5y ago

riedel 5y ago
Wonder why I cannot remember playing anything... Guess many more people will fall in nostalgia than those that ran a legal copy. Probably it would not have been so popular if there hadn't been a price tag on it.
cloudking 5y ago
In it's prime it was estimated to be selling 10,000 units a month! https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-12-30-1991364099-story.html https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-12-30-19913640...
azinman2 5y ago
It’s hard to imagine that everything is “free” now. For context: 1. Megacorps weren’t so mega, so they didn’t provide all this functionality out of the box and generally WANTED 3rd party devs 2. You didn’t have an infinite numbers of things online to grab/use 3. Ad model certainly didn’t exist for software, and VC capital didn’t back the most arbitrary of software 4. Most software was relatively expensive because audience size was far smaller than today 5. People were excited at the random new things their computer could do 6. Screen burn in was a real problem, a new monitor was very expensive, and you rarely bought a new computer
- daodedickinson 5y ago
  1. Horrible abuse from media and devs since before I was born. 2. No one ever has infinite time and I totally understand that there are devs that can currently just grab and use if they're employed. 3. I dunno and defer 4. That makes sense on a first glance but the efficiency of profit will prolly never be like that again? 5. new people are born every day 6. First time I ever experienced screen burn was this month.