bjork said:
It says "5 MEGA MEMORY" on the front... and preceded Strider which was the first 8 Meg Genesis game iirc.
Phantasy Star 2 for Genesis was 6 megs, not 5. Yeah, that was the most I had ever paid for a game also up until that time. I remember when I bought Revenge of Shinobi (Genesis), and the one store in the area that had it was selling it for $80; my dad nearly choked when I asked him for the money.
Then about a month or two later, PS2 came out and retailed for around $87 iirc. Well, my dad got it for me, but said that from then on, he was only giving me up to $60 for games, and that the next one would have to wait a while.
I believe Sword of Vermillion was the game that said "5 Mega Memory" on the front (in fact, I specifically remember it), but that came out way after PS2.
Games have gotten somewhat cheaper, though, yeah. While a big price drop was expected when the medium switched from carts to predominantly CD's, it was never fully realized, as there was a simultaneous increase in the budgets of games as well as the level of marketing that goes on. The cost of the medium (carts) used to be the driving force for the price of games-- the bigger carts like Strider or FF3 or Chrono Trigger were always much more expensive than usual. Nowadays, the budget of a game is the driving force, with the bigger budget titles tending to be priced a bit higher-- or at least taking a bit longer to come down in price so devs and publishers can recoup their costs.