$70 for video games back in the 90s? What world did you come from?
I was paying $5 for video games back then.
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...That's because maybe you got them used or something? Like, name me one retail store back then selling games for $5 just out of the blue. I won't wait because you wouldn't come up with anything.
You are mixing used markets with retail prices here. Just stop embarrassing yourself.
Walmart homie. Brand new games.
I'm referring to smaller games that came on a single floppy disk. Remember those?
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Idk where you bought your games from but up until the last few years the standard was $60 for a new game. Anything more was a special edition of the game.
The only time I've paid more than $60 for a new game was if I bought a special edition.
$70 cartridges have been around since the SNES days.
Just because they existed doesn't mean they were the standard.
But it was the standard for new ‘AAA’ games for the first couple months of release.
For how long?
I'll admit I didn't start buying new games myself until around the original halo release.
Halo was actually the first game I bought with my own money. It was $60 2 days after release. The next game I bought brand new was call of duty 3. $60 the day after release.
As I said before the only new games I've purchased that cost more than $60 were the special editions of the base games. And it's not like I wasn't buying top name games. Borderlands 2 $60. Zelda skyward sword/tp/botw $60. For honor $60. Halo 2 broke world records for most anticipated media and it's release price from day one was $60.
The standard for new games was $60.
I dunno, I seem to have misplaced my Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Game Prices by Week. :D
Just pointing out that back in the day it was not unusual to have the most desirable games cost $70 for a while. It wasn't special editions / GOTY stuff - those type of things didn't even exist yet. So I'd imagine whoever is downvoting you is an old curmudgeon like me that lived through the Dawn of Video Games like I did, and remembers this as not being uncommon. Hell, even normal NES games were $50 or so. I remember paying that much for Final Fantasy when it came out. Once you add in inflation, that's an expensive game!
If memory serves, the bump from a "standard" new video game costing $50 to $60 happened around 2010. Accounting for inflation that $60 is a little over $70, so it doesn't seem entirely unreasonable for them to be $70 even if I don't like it.