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For comparison, some of the original NES games were MSRP $45. That's the equivalent of over $100 today. (Although, of that $45, 15% went to distributors and an
by legitster 2y ago
For comparison, some of the original NES games were MSRP $45. That's the equivalent of over $100 today.
(Although, of that $45, 15% went to distributors and another 15% went to retailers).
- alabastervlog 2y agoVolume was way, way, way lower. But in fairness, so were development costs.
- AdmiralAsshat 2y agoLate Super Nintendo and early N64 games went up to even $70/$75, if memory serves. I remember an uncle getting me NBA Hangtime for my birthday one year at $75. I think it definitely contributed to the PS1 outselling the N64. There were many reasons, of course, but seeing those Toys R' Us flyers where the PS1 games were marked $40-50 and the N64 games at $60-70...I'm sure it gave some parents pause about which systems they were buying their children.
- Fricken 2y agoI got the NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for christmas in 1990. My mom left the price tag on so I could see how ridiculously overpriced it was: $69 CDN. It was a crap game.
- AdmiralAsshat 2y agoWas that the arcade port one or the other one, with the infamously hard underwater bomb-diffusion level?
- mistyvales 2y agoI paid $90 US for Bart Vs The Space Mutants around that time. I think Street Fighter 2 CE for Genesis was $80 around 1993? Different times for sure.