I managed to talk my parents around to the possibility of getting one for Christmas, but when they saw the prices of the games there was no chance. I was more than happy with my PS1 in the end.
Truly, Neo Geo console $649 in 1990... inflation adjusted $1,560 ! The game carts were $300-$400 each in todays money too.
Hmm... I grew up in the Midwest and my family had to put the $99 NES on layaway. I had a total of maybe six games over the lifespan of the NES, until I was old enough to make my own money, and even then I bought used games.
I was lucky enough to get a PS1 for Christmas back in 1995. I'll never forget going from my Sega Mega Drive to a Playstation my mind was blown by the 3d graphics.
Yep. 2 games a year for me if I was lucky. Birthday and Christmas. No worrying about what game I was going to play or buying a shit load of games because I had no money as a kid. I had to get the absolute most out of any new game I received. Life was easy back then.
Yeah, I had a ps1 but also my dad picked up a SNES for me from a guy he knew in the pub. Even though I knew the SNES was older I didn't care, I had A Link to the Past on it and I'd play the shit out of it most nights as a kid.
Xmas 1995 when PlayStation was released in the UK at £299.99 - inflation adjusted that's £600! (PS5 on release was £449).
Makes you think abit, I wonder how many Gaffers were around in the 90s and lucky enough to have it on release or near to it?
.Our family went from a 386 to a Pentium 200 MMX lol, huge jump but I used other Windows 95 PCs in between so it wasn't a huge shock.
Blades of Steel, played a heck of a lot of that game. Some of the games may have been gotten at the request of my elder bro. Mostly my parents got what seemed popular at the time.
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Nothing was comparable at the time.
N)4 games were smh were from $60-$80, which was still expensive in 1996, but the NG carts were on a while notha level, $200-$350 in 1990 due to the size of the ROM and the massive physical size of the cart.
PS1 saw games drop in prices.
That's always amusing to me when people are like "$10 increase from snes prices is a deal breaker!"
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We didn't have the net zero nut jobs back then, that's why. That is to overlook mind, the UK have one of the worst and most brutal recessions in living memory, in the 90s with super high interest rates where millions of home and business owners lost their property over the ERM.
That is for the birds. If you make your hardware desirable people will find a way, more so with die-hard console fans at launch.
I remember the Game Boy camera and printer, those were official peripherals made by Nintendo. They were heavily advertised in Germany. Never had one of those though. I remember that you could record small clips and edit them with snapchat-esque filters and effects. You could then print screenshots, even as stickers. Pretty cool for the time.
/\ 1999, the decade's end and I thought I knew all the obscure gaming tech but 'Game Boy Camera and Printer' and 'Systema TV Boy' I have no memory of these at all!? (Looks like the Switch designers liked the Systema TV Boy design)
My Dad drove to Toys r us with a hangover from hell to buy my Snes with Mario world.I had 1 as I was a horrible little cunt and no amount of slaps to my raw arse could stop me ordering my parents to get me 1. I stood stoic with my English mentality and wouldnt give in. Im proud to say they broke and got me it, my dad had to work 8 day weeks and I drove my mum into a mental breakdown, I am probably the reason there relationship fell apart but if you ask me was it worth it I will reply "corse it fuckin waz". Got myself an N64 off them aswell
Before the NES we had an Intellivision II. That was either dad's or his bro gave it to him since he was the one with kids at the time.
