You also have to take demographics into consideration. I'd imagine the average gamer has much less spending money to play with than the average Broadway theater

You also have to take demographics into consideration. I'd imagine the average gamer has much less spending money to play with than the average Broadway theater patron. >and that game was very primitive by today's standards Is the game primitive, or did it look primitive? I think it's important to make the distinction, because for all the fancy technology that goes into making a AAA shooter look cool, the actual game underneath it all is never terribly sophisticated, and usually even less so than the average FPS from the 90s. Yet people nowadays will claim that something like The Legend of Zelda, where you have a fairly nonlinear adventure through a huge world, is more "primitive" than a modern game where you are basically guided on rails from start to finish.