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LizardKing
Posts: 557/596 |
When we bought Startropics we paid 399 NOK (61.6 USD) for it. I don't remember what year that was, but it must've been after 1990. 
Though, at the time, I wanted to buy SMB3, but that I *think* cost as much as 699 NOK (108 USD). (If not, it was 599 (92.5 USD)). So my father didn't want to buy it, which is why we bought Startropics instead. I wasn't happy with that at first, but now I'm actually glad that we did. I got to play SMB3 over at a friends house anyway.
And I think that SNES and N64 games had about the same prices when they were new. (699 - 499, or 108 to 77 USD). Looking at the prices you talk about, that's pretty expensive. :/ |
KawaiiImoto-e
Posts: 963/1068 |
I don't know about Austrian game prices, but in Switzerland, games tend to be cheaper than in the EU or the big canton.
I think I know what we all forget in this hole debate: ROM-Chip prices!
Wasn't there a shortage for high quality Japanese ROM-Chips for Nintendo cartridges back in the late 80s?
And didn't those price drop over time for even larger space? (GBA games are as huge as N64 games memorywise).
And now using 'dirt-cheap' optical discs to save games on? |
HyperLamer
Posts: 6517/8210 |
Holy shitake mushrooms. You guys need to revolt or something. 
Heh, funny to think that SMB used to cost 50 bucks, and now goes for as little as 50 cents.
Originally posted by Prier
Find the controller, win a prize...
I see a jumping Goomba!  |
Scatterheart
Posts: 275/342 |
Okay! Australia's turn. 
The current exchange rate is -
$1 Australian = $0.80 U.S (A little bit less, but stuff it!)
So you'd expect average game prices to be $65 - $75AU, right?
Think again.
Buying games in Australia have always costed on average $100AU. All the new games cost that much.
Nintendo DS games are $60AU - $80AU.
Prepare to be blown away.
I remember when Street Fighter 2 first came out on the SNES. Price?
$240AU
Yep! The SNES console was actually cheaper!
The game to rent for 1 week was $20AU per week! 
Super Castlevania IV was $140AU
Donkey Kong 64 + Expansion Pack was $140AU
Conker's Bad Fur Day (Nothing special about the packaging or anything) was $130AU
I can't remember back in the ol' NES days though.
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Surlent
Posts: 991/1077 |
Speaking of prices, Imoto, they were the same in Germany like in Austria (?) where you live.
I remember having Prince of Persia for NES bought for 109 ,- DM.
Considering the game time for getting through is fixed to one hour only, it is basically ... scam 
On the other there were good games even cheaper ... Kirby's Adventure - I still love thag game today |
KawaiiImoto-e
Posts: 962/1068 |
I remember once buying NES Open Tournament Golf for 75.- in 1990.
I think the NES-Games where the most cheap of them all. With an average of 75.-. I'm not aware of SNES-Games, as I never bought a SNES Game new. (But Super Bomberman 3 cost me 120.-).
Nintendo64 Games where about 99.- for 1st Party, and about 119.- for 3rd Party.
Donkey Kong 64 was with Expansion Pak 99.-, in Germany, it was DM 150.-.
Todays Cube, PS2 and X-Box games are 94.- to 99.-.
Game Boy games once were 30.- to 40.-, Game Boy Color 40.- to 50.-, some even 60.-, GBA game prices even raised up to 80.-.
I sometimes feel cheated for the other buyers, cos I got the same games imported for 99.- (later for less). |
Surlent
Posts: 974/1077 |
For SNES: About 60 Euros for Yoshi's Island and Lufia - Rise of The Sinistrals were the most expensive investions each.
As for NES - I got Prince of Persia for about 60 Euros too. But other than that, consider prices for games played on the Atari VCS2600, the prices were as expensive as back in SNES' high days.
Now check what you did get about game length and variety in the back days.
But it still is retro feeling ... we played games like Pitfall and others quite often: A friend of me had that console and we spent a lot of time together in front of it  |
Blades
Posts: 143/151 |
The most I paid for a game was 100$cdn I think and it was for Dragon Warrior 3 or 4. (NES)
SNES was CT and it was around 95$cdn...
PSX is either FF7 or FF9.
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Snika
Posts: 393/916 |
Originally posted by drjayphd
They can't and won't legislate that. And they didn't do that with CD's, either. The courts found systematic price fixing and smote it. Besides, the market kind of took care of that too, what with stores like Wal-Mart, Target, and Best Buy selling CD's at a loss.
Oh. So thats what happened with CD prices... Yeah, seems pretty unlikely that they would make a pricing law for video games, or even work out a systematic price fix. BitTorrent, anyone?
DKC3 for $150? Holy jeez! Was Nintendo even aware that their market was toward pennyless children who got no allowance? |
GeckoYamori
Posts: 88/153 |
Nintendo were real assholes with game prices up until the N64 era. Stores that weren't game-dedicated were contributing to this too, raising prices even more to feed on the children's unsuspecting parents. I know one guy that saw DKC3 for $150 in Toys 'R Us.
Makes me glad I only rented Nintendo games back then. I would never pay over $50 for a game, unless it was some sort of super duper special edition that I really want.
Virtua Racer cost a lot because it used some special chip to render realtime polygons at an acceptable framerate. This wasn't the case with Phantasy Star IV though, I think they just wanted to squeeze out more from the JRPG snobs who would pay astronomical amounts for just one stupid game. Other than that, I found Sega games generally cheaper than SNES games. I got the games I wanted, and didn't have to pay over $50 for them. |
fabio
Posts: 643/1479 |
Originally posted by Cruel Justice
I remember getting an NES when I was a little tyke, but never the price... I think it was about $60-75. I bought one a month ago for $3! A little dusty but great condition!
Same here but I wasn't aware of the prices at that time. I probably had like 3 games for the NES because the games were expansive and my parents wouldn't want to pay like $60 for a game. |
Cruel Justice
Posts: 1113/1384 |
I remember getting an NES when I was a little tyke, but never the price... I think it was about $60-75. I bought one a month ago for $3! A little dusty but great condition! |
Colin
Posts: 9801/11302 |
One hundred AMERICAN?!?
Geeeeeez. Thank God I wasn't a Genesis owner then or I would have played PS instead of FF... and my parents would probably flip over paying $120-130 for *A* game. |
Emptyeye
Posts: 2075/2273 |
Yeah, during the SNES era, the average price of a game approached $70US. Chrono Trigger was $80, Phantasy Star IV and Virtua Racer on Genesis were both $100 (Yes, ONE HUNDRED AMERICAN DOLLARS. Not a Super Ultra Rare Collector's Edition either, this was the STANDARD GAME, box, etc.).
Made me laugh to see that pitiful UK effort to boycott what they felt were unreasonably high game prices some time back. |
Tamarin Calanis
Posts: 728/1802 |
Considering how Xeo lives in the US, I'd bet it was US dollars.
I had a similar experience, almost all N64 games I saw were $60 new. |
Kario
Posts: 1998/2082 |
Originally posted by Xeolord
I'm just not sure, since I was pretty young I didn't really buy games back in the day, this was very true with the N64 though (Perfect Dark, Donkey Kong 64, etc, were $70 new).
That isnt US dollars is it? I bought Donkey Kong 64 the day it came out with the expansion pack included for 49.99. The only game I have ever bought over that was Donkey Konga and that was 59.99. |
Yoshi Dude
Posts: 2656/3271 |
Originally posted by Xeolord
I won't forget when trading in old games was worth so much also.
Right when the N64 came out, I remember trading in Yoshi's Island for $40 bucks.
Bad move, but don't worry I recently bought the game for $12.
I went to a game store (recently gone bankrupt) and traded in Lion King for Super Metroid.
Most excellent trade ever.
I was too young to be aware of prices of NES games, but I clearly remember SNES games being very pricy. I would rent almost everything. I checked out Secret of Mana so many times, it probably would've been cheaper to purchase it. 
A few years ago I bought Final Fantasy VI for like 40 bucks, a cheap plastic box for PSX games, and a horribly photocopied instruction booklet. It's funny to see how some of these games still go for a high price. I'm interested in buying a lot of the games I rented in the future, but some of them.. man. People are nuts.
It makes me want to go back in time and buy a lot of these games brand new as an investment, haha. |
drjayphd
Posts: 1244/1477 |
(stabbity! for Snika)
They can't and won't legislate that. And they didn't do that with CD's, either. The courts found systematic price fixing and smote it. Besides, the market kind of took care of that too, what with stores like Wal-Mart, Target, and Best Buy selling CD's at a loss.
But yeah, games were around $40-$70. Especially the SNES era... those were just painful to buy.  |
Colin
Posts: 9785/11302 |
Yeah, but that collection was more of a "limited offer/collectable" thing to begin with. :\
Always wondered why SE hasn't bothered to do a FF or DW pack for the cash. |
Xeolord
Posts: 3062/3418 |
Originally posted by Prier
Most of the standards now usually don't exceed 49.99USD without tax (53.99 around here with tax at 8%). The only things I can figure on that would exceed that would be FFXI with the hard drive and that was 99.99USD.
Well, bundles exceeding $49.99 does make sense.
I remember I bought the Arc the Lad Collection for about $89.99 I think. Then handed over $29.99 for the huge bible-like Strategy guide. |
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