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> I remember how ubiquitous the SNES, Sega Genesis and PS1 were in the 90s They weren't "ubiquitous" for poor kids. For those kids, there was no way they woul
by pekk 13y ago
> I remember how ubiquitous the SNES, Sega Genesis and PS1 were in the 90s
They weren't "ubiquitous" for poor kids. For those kids, there was no way they would get their parents to buy us anything for (the 1991 equivalent of) $350 and $85/game.
Nobody assumed that upper middle class kids were normally carrying out burglaries...
- earh 13y agoNES+games were about half that. That's what middle class kids played, even in the early SNES/PS1 era.
- bluedino 13y agoThe poor kids had Nintendo and Sega back then, just like the poor kids have Xbox and PlayStation today.
- gcb0 13y agoMaybe in middle class usa. Other places had very high import taxes for electronics. Ps1 was actually 100x more common than sega/nintendo in my 3rd world childhood because it was almost free to get games. For the price of a cartridge rental for two days you could get a pirate cd.
- mpyne 13y agoMy dad sold my SNES and Final Fantasy II for money to keep his kids fed. Poor kids didn't necessarily have shit back then, and certainly the used game market wasn't as available as it is now.