That's one of the reasons millennials get a bad rap for frivolous spending. The cost of necessities have increased dramatically while the cost of luxuries have generally gone down.
Kids these days will never understand the struggle of hoping that a game was good - based solely on 3 pictures and a few sentences on the back of the box. Damn I'm getting old.
And boy did you ever need more bang for your buck with those prices! I remember a regular Nintendo game being like two weeks of groceries! A current $70 game would have been $30 back then, and a $30 steam sale game would have been like $13! We would have gone just for today’s game prices back then! But I think that’s about the only thing that got cheaper, games, computers, and TV’s everything else just went up!
I bought various video games magazines back in the day and remember staring for hours and hours at the amazing graphics of the super nes. At the time I had a C64 so was blown away by screenshots of the likes of SF2 and super mario world etc. I eventually got one xmas 1992 along with a copy of SF2, best xmas ever as a kid. Was like having an arcade at home lol
Man I miss this kinda thing, I love how we have evolved but man getting tha Christmas catalog at my grandparents house was an event I would basically take an entire day look and reading through it and I absolutely miss that.
I used to carry this year round circle stuff for my grandma, of course she never bought everything but she always got the one for me I always would stare at most, never had to ask my favorite. Grandmas you are always the best and blessing. Shout out to all the grandmas for us boys growing up.
Oh man I loved Populous. Always built up my lands at least a block or two higher than sea level until I had enough power to flood the world at least once and try to kill all the enemy people.
Lmao Teenage Turtles!
The whole ninja thing was just a phase
Right? Those covers alone could convince any kid their game was about to change their whole life.
It's like a Kmart knockoff for poor kids.
Any pictures of the women's section? Asking for a friend.
Moe doesn’t deserve that kind of treatment
BUZZZZ
The trick was to find the women in the lace bras.
It's also posted below in another comment, but for your friend: https://christmas.musetechnical.com
Your doing God's work - my friend probably.
Adjusted for inflation, Final Fantasy II would cost $160 in today's money
That's one of the reasons millennials get a bad rap for frivolous spending. The cost of necessities have increased dramatically while the cost of luxuries have generally gone down.
I miss the Sears catalog….strictly for educational purposes of course
Kids these days will never understand the struggle of hoping that a game was good - based solely on 3 pictures and a few sentences on the back of the box. Damn I'm getting old.
Home Alone was a video game? Lol
Yep I had it on gameboy haha
Everything had a video game tie-in
Even McDonalds had pretty good platformer game.
I had it on Sega Genesis. So much fun.
Same and I loved it!
I had it on Nintendo. Absolutely impossible! You could never complete it. Harry and Marv got you every single time
Well, they were coked up, so it might not be fair against a little kid
There's an AVGN video of Macaulay Culkin playing it, definitely recommend.
I swear I do not remember super Nintendo games being $60 back then
I do. Shit was expensive lol
Mario Bros. 3 cost my parents $63 on release day from Service Merchandise. It was a big deal.
All the games on the Game Boy page are $30
I remember paying £60 sterling for a copy of street fighter 2 hyper edition. Usually games were about £40 iirc
I didn't get my super Nintendo until 1997, so they must have been cheaper by that point.
I think catalogues also inflated the prices of a lot of things too. That plus charging people interest for payment plans.
For real. I suddenly understand why my parents said no so often. I also feel a hell of a lot better about buying titles at launch now.
But did they have BattleToads ?
Gamestop might have a few copies left.
We only got the Speigel catalogue at my house
I would have wanted to get Super Street Fighter II for the Super NES.
So many nights playing pit fighter and super off road with the crew.
I only ever asked for JRPGs, since I wanted more bang for my buck.
And boy did you ever need more bang for your buck with those prices! I remember a regular Nintendo game being like two weeks of groceries! A current $70 game would have been $30 back then, and a $30 steam sale game would have been like $13! We would have gone just for today’s game prices back then! But I think that’s about the only thing that got cheaper, games, computers, and TV’s everything else just went up!
https://christmas.musetechnical.com/
Soooo many bangers
I absolutely looked through that as a kid.
I bought various video games magazines back in the day and remember staring for hours and hours at the amazing graphics of the super nes. At the time I had a C64 so was blown away by screenshots of the likes of SF2 and super mario world etc. I eventually got one xmas 1992 along with a copy of SF2, best xmas ever as a kid. Was like having an arcade at home lol
Man I miss this kinda thing, I love how we have evolved but man getting tha Christmas catalog at my grandparents house was an event I would basically take an entire day look and reading through it and I absolutely miss that.
I used to spend hours looking through this. I miss being a clueless kid.
Seeing that games were $60 back then when a week's groceries could be bought for < $20 was wild.
Super R-Type and Gradius III were fantastic scifi shooters.
I miss the wish a log
Street Fighter. We used to have one in the pizza place I worked at.
$60 in 1992 is roughly $140 today. Jesus Christ.
But~ $208 for NES Challenge set...
I used to carry this year round circle stuff for my grandma, of course she never bought everything but she always got the one for me I always would stare at most, never had to ask my favorite. Grandmas you are always the best and blessing. Shout out to all the grandmas for us boys growing up.
Ah, yes. Game Gear…my Duracells never stood a chance.
Adventure Island was the BEST game on NES! I loved riding the dinosaurs and skateboarding through the jungle.
Oh man I loved Populous. Always built up my lands at least a block or two higher than sea level until I had enough power to flood the world at least once and try to kill all the enemy people.
I stopped at Bill Lambeers Combat Basketball. LOL! Who had that game/ever played it? They were really trying to reach all audiences.
I can hear, feel, and smell those pages.
Super R-Type was wild
What a Christmas for me. I got a snes that came with Mario world, Gradius 3 and super ghouls and ghosts
Good ol’ days
Never heard of the Manacer
On pic 6 bottom left: for mario 3 instead of Bowser they wrote Browser xD
Dial it further back about 15 years- we had a Lloyd's TV Sports 813.
Dad: Which one do you want, son? Son: “yes”