LogFAQs > #914952217

Considering inflation, games are actually significantly cheaper than they used to be.
Take Chrono Trigger for example, which was $80 when it first came out in 1995.
That's roughly equivalent to $130 dollars today.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of games at that time were probably closer to $50 but RPGs were almost always $20-$30 dollars more expensive.
But still, even the $50 dollar games were more like $80 today.

So I'd say...yeah, games are cheap. Especially if you buy them on sale, pre-owned, or a little while after they've released.

Also gotta factor in that they were a lot harder to find back then, too. We didn't have gamestops and such back then. You could go to toys'r'us or walmart or whatever and just hoped they had what you were looking for. If you even knew what you were looking for that is. You couldn't just go to youtube and watch a gameplay video either. You got a few pictures on the back of the box (if the store employee would open the case for you), or maybe in a Nintendo Power magazine, back when the subscription was worth having.

Buying new games was kind of a gamble back then. You could get something truly great like secret of mana or super metroid, but on the other hand, you could wind up shelling out $40-$50 for Plok and regretting your purchase terribly.
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