I remember the Megadrive was being sold in Woolies (which I seem to also remember being £199) and was in awe at the graphics, John Maddens footy being one I thought was epic. I asked my folks for it and got the Master System instead. Alex Kidd in Miracle World is now imprinted on my memory.
I would say in the Uk the Beeb was the actual rich kid computer, whereas the C64 would be more of the upper middle-class computer., kind of like here in North America, the Apple II was the rich kid computer around this time, whereas the early IBM DOS computers would have been the upper middle-class computers. Whereas the C64 was actually one of the cheaper options here in NA (believe it or not)
Thing is about the advert for the Mega PC is it perfectly illustrates why you would be better off buying a separate Megadrive and PC, so dad wouldn't have to kick the kid off every time he wanted to work.
The MegaPC worked as a marketing strategy though, rather than buying a good pc without a Megadrive for similar money you instead bought an outmoded 386 (in 1993? Seriously Alan Sugar?) Fitted with what was essentially a Megadrive on a card! I know not 1 but 2 people that had one as a child, needless to say neither survived!
Brilliant video, the Argos catalogue and circling what you wanted then hoping it came was a ritual for us all back then. That Vic-20 pack was the first computer I had, though my mum bought it at Goldbergs. She was attracted to all the extras it came with over a 16k Spectrum at much the same price. I still loved it and continue to have a soft spot for the old Vic.
Ah the Vectrex, we had one my dad got off a car boot (Had a Vic 20 from the car boot as well), and I think we had a grand total of 3 games, the Asteroids game, the Berserk game and Spike with the respective screen cover things. Never ever saw another game and eventually we got rid of it.
My first computer was the Vic-20 which my folks got me from Beatties in Wolverhampton. I remember the games behind a glass cabinet guarded like they were the crown jewels. My eyes used to glase over always wondering what the game was like, lets be honest most were crap but it was from there i had Matrix. The best game on the system and the first video i did for my channel. Amazing the price difference from then, just shows how expensive they were back then. Yes the Argos book was like having both the TV times and Radio times for Christmas, an annual tradition for our house hold. Great video again mate 👍
I only properly relax after putting a video out when you leave a comment mate. I wait for them. And as usual you didn't disappoint. I think the Vic20 is a suprise in this list that they held the price quite high late on. Great memories mate.
My folks weren't rich (especially in 1983) but that year they did buy a Commodore 64. Dad always bought the best he could afford (usually by working a lot of over-time) so consequently we also had a Sony Beta-Max VCR. That thing cost a FORTUNE. Even the tapes were super expensive. Dad often tells a story when he bought a 30min tape for it that cost around £100 and came home from work one evening to find me as a toddler chewing on the tape like it was a teething ring. He managed to splice it back together though it ended up being an 23min tape instead of a 30min 😂😂
Ah, the 112 variations is referring to the Atari 2600 version of space invaders. It has a silly number of combinations of visible/ invisible invaders, different missile settings and static/moving shields - plus 1 or 2 player co-op / vs modes for each of those.
One afterthought on the Commodore 64 which due to its special chips like SID was a technically impressive machine for its time. I faced the choice between a ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64 in the early 1980s. The ZX Spectrum could be operated with a reasonable cassette player and a regular TV. Both of which was present in your household normally. And that joystick interface also was a necessity. The Commodore 64 could use its Datasette which had to be purchased separately but that did cost a pretty penny and it was slow beyond belief (300 Baud IIRC). The 1541 floppy disk drive did set you back as much as the C64 already did. But IMHO it was the only viable option and pretty slow, too (2400 Baud IIRC vs. 1500 Baud of ZX Spectrum tape loading speed). So, considering the excellent BASIC which got me into computer science, there was little reason to fork out my hard earned tutor money for the C64. The Commodore 64 plus the 1541 disk drive are borderline homecomputing realms anymore when it comes to the costs of that system. 💰💸
I remember I'd just started work the summer before the N64 came out and had just moved to my 2nd job when it hit shelves and some of the guys at work were having heart attacks to try and get one. I remember them being sold out almost everywhere apparently, to the point that one guy bought one (off somebody who had managed to get hold of 2 of them) for £250!! I had gone off consoles after my Megadrive and was a dedicated PC gamer by then, so I had no interest in an N64. But for those guys at work, an N64 with Mario and Starfox was like the Holy Grail 🤣🤣
Re: Sonic “Arcade hit game” was just standard generic description used to describe any fast paced action game really. That said, the Megadrive Sonic did eventually get its own arcade version; ever so slightly modded with harsher time and no bonus levels (I think some other levels are missing too). It runs on MAME. Also, that C64 pack in 1990 apparently sold incredibly well and give the machine a second wind. You had the awesome Thalmus games and Commodore Format keeping it alive into the mid 90’s.
There are 2 platforms that are by and away the most expensive ever. 1) PC/Mac In the late 80s and early 90s, name brand PCs were thousands of Dollars. The MAC II was like 6 grand brand new in 1987! PCs weren't much better, often breaking the 4000 Dollar price range. 2) Neogeo. I was absolutely floored at seeing a neogeo in a Kiddy City for $795 and the games averaging between $200 and $250 in the early 90s.
Yeah PC prices were crazy. The cheapest one I could find easily topped this list!! I played on an actual neogeo for the first time last weekend at rmc's cave and I was disappointed with the joystick controller. Felt platicky for all the money you were spending! Cheers for the comment!
I got my ZX Spectrum 48k Plus around 1985 ? For £50 (mail order) it was DOA --- It was quickly replaced, but the time wasted and disappointment hurt. Yup, the 1200 had 2 meg --- Silly Argos
That Philips G700 at number 22 surely has the wrong year attached to it. This system came out in 1978 and I woud be very surprised to see it in a catalogue from 1997.
Blimey, this video has been out 8 months, done okish on views, I must have watched it fifty times to check everything was correct and boom. Wrong date on the G7000. There was no chance Argos were trying to shift that in 1997 😂 Thanks for the spot! (Is a great home computer though, I ended up buying one which I did a video about somewhere). Cheers!
JT should be JR, so is a misprint I would say. Especially as R and T are next to each other on a Qwerty kb. The JR was introduced in 1986, and the image in the catalogue is that first version of the JR with the narrow rainbow on the silver centre section.
There should be a comparison of the cost per hour of gameplay for these consoles. Because 300 quid spent on today's money on a 2600 with space Invaders will last last you no more than 30 mins a time, but 500 on a ps5 with gran turismo 7 has hundreds of hours of gameplay
I bought a worryingly large number of those machines back in the day, which probably explains my current pitiable financial status. For reference, I only have one of those machines now (my A1200, which I've never been able to bring myself to part with). Did I waste my money (and youth) on these things? probably. Do I REGRET any of those purchases? ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Working people had more money to spend on things like Spectrums under Thatcher. VAT alone increases the prices 2.5-5% today. The overall tax burden fell to 28% in 1993. It was risen steeply since 1997 mainly in the form of indirect stealth taxes to 35% and rising today. Housing and energy costs are also much higher today. The China effect has made electronics cheaper
It wasn't the Atari 2600 JT, it was the 2600 Jr. "Junior". The 112 variations is Space Invaders, there really were that many variations, but that's really just lots of combinations, how many ways you can permute the options it had. There were some weird ones though like "invisible invaders", where you couldn't see the invaders til you hit them, cos... they were invisible! The 7800 was in no way outclassed by the NES. The 7800 was better in quite a few ways, though it's resolution in full-colour mode was lower. It had a very nice graphics chip in it though, otherwise. It's a toss-up which is better, if the 7800 had sold as well as the NES, companies would have been able to spend similar amounts on creating their games, which they obviously didn't, you can tell by playing them that they were pretty cheap.
Yeah I assumed it must have been a typo. Great comment mate thanks. I know a little about the 7800, so it's always interesting to hear other people's take on things, appreciate that.
@@SebsPlaceYT Particularly, the 7800 wasn't limited by tile-mapping. It had a video processor similar to ANTIC, the one in the Atari 8-bit computer line, that could apply different parameters to each scanline, including changing resolution. The chip actually ran it's own machine code, in it's own language, albeit simple, but very versatile. In some ways quicker than tilemap, since you could change whole regions of the screen with just a few bytes. The lines were bitmapped. That can be slower to move graphics around on, but it's much more versatile, and there were still sprites. You can very much tell that the NES uses a tilemapped screen, every game looks the same in that way. Much less variety than real computer games of the time. Would've been nice if Atari hadn't considered 160 horizontal pixels to be a usable resolution, cos it really isn't, it's ugly. Good enough for the 2600 in the 1970s! It can do 320 though with colour. Actually that's probably because the machine was back-compatible with the 2600, a foolish decision in retrospect, though if they'd launched it in 1984. It was officially launched in 1986 but didn't get any sort of push til a couple of years later when it wasn't good enough. The sound is exactly the same as the 2600s, again '70s technology and awful. Also for compatibility, they should have just dropped that. Compatibility is also the reason the SNES has a crippled, slow, 8-bit CPU instead of a proper decent one like the Megadrive. In the end Nintendo abandoned NES compatiblity for the SNES, but the hardware is all in there, necessarily compromised, so third parties made NES adaptors easily. It's interesting to read the technical manuals for these things online. STELLA.DOC is a classis for the 2600, and the 7800's docs are out there too. They were written by the engineers, for games programmers to understand the system, and it really gives you the thinking behind the machines. Even if you don't understand everything you'll likely still be impressed and illuminated by what's there. Gives you an understanding of the scene at the time in general.
Thank you! Super interesting, I'm going to hunt that document out. Although as you say I might not understand everything I just find things like this super interesting, thanks again.
Interesting. If you bought it at the beginning of the year, then it's feasible as the 199 price was for Christmas 96. But yeah 100 quid drop is quite big!!!
I bought the £99 Dual Shock Pack PSX in 1998, got a nice discount on a memory card and controller too, gave it straight to my mate who returned it to me the next day chipped with a stack of CDRs with all the top titles of the day! Bought it with my own money I earned being a slave in a kitchen at a restaurant part time at the age of 17! I have only ever been gifted 2 consoles, my Sega Dreamcast from my best mate and my Sony PlayStation 5 (phat disc) from my wife and I have anything that isn't a Nintendo, Sega fanboy til I die!
This is what makes me laugh about the whiners and moaners of today's gaming. Gaming today, has produced the biggest bunch of complaining idiots on the planet..... One thing they complain about is the cost. In terms of hobbies, gaming is among the cheapest and that hasn't really risen in price very much at all. I am 44.... I remember games being between £34.99 to £44.99 on the NES Mega Drive games i got with my parents for my birthday, we went in too Southampton city centre, Virgin Megastore and i got Madden and Road Rash on the Mega Drive, both were around the £45 each. When you look at games on the Series X, PS5 today...... Unless you buy the big deluxe editions, games are between £39.99 and £59.99. Iv'e been gaming since the 80's and the price of games has hardly risen from 1985 too 2024. Yet you still get people whining about the cost.
Thanks for the mention Seb, I do LOVE an Argos catalogue
Cheers Neil, I do too but they go for silly money for physical copies sadly. Would be great for the cave!
I remember the Megadrive was being sold in Woolies (which I seem to also remember being £199) and was in awe at the graphics, John Maddens footy being one I thought was epic. I asked my folks for it and got the Master System instead.
Alex Kidd in Miracle World is now imprinted on my memory.
Ah man sooo close! I mean the master system rocks but at that point, it would have felt so old compared to the MD. I feel your pain x
@@SebsPlaceYT It does rock but yes, at that time it felt somewhat antiquated compared to the Mega Drive. Still, it beat the Dragon 32 I was rocking.
Oh man, gutted!
I would say in the Uk the Beeb was the actual rich kid computer, whereas the C64 would be more of the upper middle-class computer., kind of like here in North America, the Apple II was the rich kid computer around this time, whereas the early IBM DOS computers would have been the upper middle-class computers.
Whereas the C64 was actually one of the cheaper options here in NA (believe it or not)
lol, Chris Barrie narrating that advert though.
Thing is about the advert for the Mega PC is it perfectly illustrates why you would be better off buying a separate Megadrive and PC, so dad wouldn't have to kick the kid off every time he wanted to work.
🤣🤣🤣 very true!
The MegaPC worked as a marketing strategy though, rather than buying a good pc without a Megadrive for similar money you instead bought an outmoded 386 (in 1993? Seriously Alan Sugar?) Fitted with what was essentially a Megadrive on a card! I know not 1 but 2 people that had one as a child, needless to say neither survived!
Brilliant video, the Argos catalogue and circling what you wanted then hoping it came was a ritual for us all back then. That Vic-20 pack was the first computer I had, though my mum bought it at Goldbergs. She was attracted to all the extras it came with over a 16k Spectrum at much the same price. I still loved it and continue to have a soft spot for the old Vic.
Cheers for the comment. I love the nostalgia.Vic 20 was awesome. it was just surprising how much it held its price.!
Great video seb!!!😀😃
Thanks! 😃
Ah the Vectrex, we had one my dad got off a car boot (Had a Vic 20 from the car boot as well), and I think we had a grand total of 3 games, the Asteroids game, the Berserk game and Spike with the respective screen cover things. Never ever saw another game and eventually we got rid of it.
Ah man.... Imagine seeing one now at a car boot! Very unlikely 😣
My first computer was the Vic-20 which my folks got me from Beatties in Wolverhampton. I remember the games behind a glass cabinet guarded like they were the crown jewels. My eyes used to glase over always wondering what the game was like, lets be honest most were crap but it was from there i had Matrix. The best game on the system and the first video i did for my channel.
Amazing the price difference from then, just shows how expensive they were back then.
Yes the Argos book was like having both the TV times and Radio times for Christmas, an annual tradition for our house hold.
Great video again mate 👍
I only properly relax after putting a video out when you leave a comment mate. I wait for them. And as usual you didn't disappoint. I think the Vic20 is a suprise in this list that they held the price quite high late on. Great memories mate.
@@SebsPlaceYT It's one thing I absolutely love about our hobby is our memories. Growing up in the era is something quite special for us all 👍
I bought my speccy from Hillards superstore, using money I earned performing in Cameron Macintosh’s Oliver! at Manchester’s Palace theatre. True story
That's a great story! More Spectrum please sir!!!
@@SebsPlaceYT more?!!!
My folks weren't rich (especially in 1983) but that year they did buy a Commodore 64. Dad always bought the best he could afford (usually by working a lot of over-time) so consequently we also had a Sony Beta-Max VCR. That thing cost a FORTUNE. Even the tapes were super expensive. Dad often tells a story when he bought a 30min tape for it that cost around £100 and came home from work one evening to find me as a toddler chewing on the tape like it was a teething ring. He managed to splice it back together though it ended up being an 23min tape instead of a 30min 😂😂
Haha that's a great story! Thanks for sharing 🥰
Ah, the 112 variations is referring to the Atari 2600 version of space invaders. It has a silly number of combinations of visible/ invisible invaders, different missile settings and static/moving shields - plus 1 or 2 player co-op / vs modes for each of those.
Ah ok. Thank you. I did wonder if it was something like that, but 112 seemed excessive. Thanks for letting me know.
It also had the secret two shot mode if you hold down reset while turning on the VCS
One afterthought on the Commodore 64 which due to its special chips like SID was a technically impressive machine for its time.
I faced the choice between a ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64 in the early 1980s.
The ZX Spectrum could be operated with a reasonable cassette player and a regular TV. Both of which was present in your household normally. And that joystick interface also was a necessity.
The Commodore 64 could use its Datasette which had to be purchased separately but that did cost a pretty penny and it was slow beyond belief (300 Baud IIRC).
The 1541 floppy disk drive did set you back as much as the C64 already did. But IMHO it was the only viable option and pretty slow, too (2400 Baud IIRC vs. 1500 Baud of ZX Spectrum tape loading speed).
So, considering the excellent BASIC which got me into computer science, there was little reason to fork out my hard earned tutor money for the C64.
The Commodore 64 plus the 1541 disk drive are borderline homecomputing realms anymore when it comes to the costs of that system. 💰💸
Interesting view on it. Never thought of it that way before. Thanks
I remember I'd just started work the summer before the N64 came out and had just moved to my 2nd job when it hit shelves and some of the guys at work were having heart attacks to try and get one. I remember them being sold out almost everywhere apparently, to the point that one guy bought one (off somebody who had managed to get hold of 2 of them) for £250!! I had gone off consoles after my Megadrive and was a dedicated PC gamer by then, so I had no interest in an N64. But for those guys at work, an N64 with Mario and Starfox was like the Holy Grail 🤣🤣
That's crazy! £250 is bonkers! Thanks for sharing.🥰
I paid 169 quid for a 16K RAM expansion, for my VIC-20, just so I could play an imported U.S. RPG that had a HUGE map, and 24 dungeons!!!
Wow, not a small amount of money back then!!!!
I'm watching this whilst on the throne
Lol. Enjoy! 😁😁
Just watching this video, I could almost smell the Argos catalogue! Love the video, thanks for uploading and I look forward to more.
Thank you, very kind
Unexpected Chris Barrie at the end was unexpected.
Re: Sonic “Arcade hit game” was just standard generic description used to describe any fast paced action game really.
That said, the Megadrive Sonic did eventually get its own arcade version; ever so slightly modded with harsher time and no bonus levels (I think some other levels are missing too). It runs on MAME.
Also, that C64 pack in 1990 apparently sold incredibly well and give the machine a second wind. You had the awesome Thalmus games and Commodore Format keeping it alive into the mid 90’s.
Ah ok, that makes sense, thanks!
Those PC prices are crazy.
Yeah flippin bonkers
I remember going into Woolworths and Vectrex was stacked to the ceiling being sold off at £39.99. If only I'd known......
Ah man! Yeah, that's crazy!!
There are 2 platforms that are by and away the most expensive ever.
1) PC/Mac In the late 80s and early 90s, name brand PCs were thousands of Dollars. The MAC II was like 6 grand brand new in 1987! PCs weren't much better, often breaking the 4000 Dollar price range.
2) Neogeo. I was absolutely floored at seeing a neogeo in a Kiddy City for $795 and the games averaging between $200 and $250 in the early 90s.
Yeah PC prices were crazy. The cheapest one I could find easily topped this list!! I played on an actual neogeo for the first time last weekend at rmc's cave and I was disappointed with the joystick controller. Felt platicky for all the money you were spending! Cheers for the comment!
I got my ZX Spectrum 48k Plus around 1985 ? For £50 (mail order) it was DOA ---
It was quickly replaced, but the time wasted and disappointment hurt.
Yup, the 1200 had 2 meg --- Silly Argos
£50 seems a good price! I was surprised Argos never stocked it.
That Philips G700 at number 22 surely has the wrong year attached to it.
This system came out in 1978 and I woud be very surprised to see it in a catalogue from 1997.
Blimey, this video has been out 8 months, done okish on views, I must have watched it fifty times to check everything was correct and boom. Wrong date on the G7000. There was no chance Argos were trying to shift that in 1997 😂 Thanks for the spot! (Is a great home computer though, I ended up buying one which I did a video about somewhere). Cheers!
The CDi can play games without the videocard. Retro Twitch has been happy to show off the horrors lurking within that library.
Oh really!!! Yikes!!
JT should be JR, so is a misprint I would say. Especially as R and T are next to each other on a Qwerty kb. The JR was introduced in 1986, and the image in the catalogue is that first version of the JR with the narrow rainbow on the silver centre section.
Yep agreed. Cheers!
That Atari 600XL page looks like it had time travel built in.. I’m sure that’s a digital representation of the White Stripes. Explains the price.
Haha - I gonna have to re check that out now...
Why would you include the C64C and various Amiga/ST variants, but not the Spectrum +2? And was the CPC (or GX4000) really never sold in Argos?
Nope. +2 nowhere to be seen in argos. Im Mr Spectrum so would have been all over it, but not there..... CPC nope. I couldn't find it.
@@SebsPlaceYT Any chance of doing a best bargains follow-up? It looked like the Master System was a contender.
There should be a comparison of the cost per hour of gameplay for these consoles. Because 300 quid spent on today's money on a 2600 with space Invaders will last last you no more than 30 mins a time, but 500 on a ps5 with gran turismo 7 has hundreds of hours of gameplay
Hi - Back then, though, the 2600 was special.
Was earning about £60 quid a week back then so dropping a hundred quid on anything was definitely a considered purchase
Yeah 100%!
Amiga A1200 were all shipped with 2mb
I thought so. Thanks. So a typo then?
I bought a worryingly large number of those machines back in the day, which probably explains my current pitiable financial status. For reference, I only have one of those machines now (my A1200, which I've never been able to bring myself to part with). Did I waste my money (and youth) on these things? probably. Do I REGRET any of those purchases? ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Love this 😍 and glad you still have that A1200 !
Bit weird Argos not having the base cpc464, i would have thought they would have sold it.
Shame as they always go together.
Yeah I was surprised that they didn't stock 8 bits for a bit. Unless they were in a supplement or in store only. Not sure.
How much are Amstrad MD controllers worth?! 😮 I bet they must go for hundreds at least
Yeah a few quid I'd imagine!
Working people had more money to spend on things like Spectrums under Thatcher. VAT alone increases the prices 2.5-5% today. The overall tax burden fell to 28% in 1993. It was risen steeply since 1997 mainly in the form of indirect stealth taxes to 35% and rising today. Housing and energy costs are also much higher today. The China effect has made electronics cheaper
I had the same conversation with my Dad recently, and he pretty much said the same thing. Really interesting, thanks.
No acorn bbc model b the only console that went up in price!
It wasn't the Atari 2600 JT, it was the 2600 Jr. "Junior". The 112 variations is Space Invaders, there really were that many variations, but that's really just lots of combinations, how many ways you can permute the options it had. There were some weird ones though like "invisible invaders", where you couldn't see the invaders til you hit them, cos... they were invisible!
The 7800 was in no way outclassed by the NES. The 7800 was better in quite a few ways, though it's resolution in full-colour mode was lower. It had a very nice graphics chip in it though, otherwise. It's a toss-up which is better, if the 7800 had sold as well as the NES, companies would have been able to spend similar amounts on creating their games, which they obviously didn't, you can tell by playing them that they were pretty cheap.
Yeah I assumed it must have been a typo. Great comment mate thanks. I know a little about the 7800, so it's always interesting to hear other people's take on things, appreciate that.
@@SebsPlaceYT Particularly, the 7800 wasn't limited by tile-mapping. It had a video processor similar to ANTIC, the one in the Atari 8-bit computer line, that could apply different parameters to each scanline, including changing resolution. The chip actually ran it's own machine code, in it's own language, albeit simple, but very versatile. In some ways quicker than tilemap, since you could change whole regions of the screen with just a few bytes.
The lines were bitmapped. That can be slower to move graphics around on, but it's much more versatile, and there were still sprites. You can very much tell that the NES uses a tilemapped screen, every game looks the same in that way. Much less variety than real computer games of the time.
Would've been nice if Atari hadn't considered 160 horizontal pixels to be a usable resolution, cos it really isn't, it's ugly. Good enough for the 2600 in the 1970s! It can do 320 though with colour.
Actually that's probably because the machine was back-compatible with the 2600, a foolish decision in retrospect, though if they'd launched it in 1984. It was officially launched in 1986 but didn't get any sort of push til a couple of years later when it wasn't good enough.
The sound is exactly the same as the 2600s, again '70s technology and awful. Also for compatibility, they should have just dropped that. Compatibility is also the reason the SNES has a crippled, slow, 8-bit CPU instead of a proper decent one like the Megadrive. In the end Nintendo abandoned NES compatiblity for the SNES, but the hardware is all in there, necessarily compromised, so third parties made NES adaptors easily.
It's interesting to read the technical manuals for these things online. STELLA.DOC is a classis for the 2600, and the 7800's docs are out there too. They were written by the engineers, for games programmers to understand the system, and it really gives you the thinking behind the machines. Even if you don't understand everything you'll likely still be impressed and illuminated by what's there. Gives you an understanding of the scene at the time in general.
Thank you! Super interesting, I'm going to hunt that document out. Although as you say I might not understand everything I just find things like this super interesting, thanks again.
what a fantastic content choice if only it was 12 hours longer.. no 24 hours longer :)
Cheers mate, very kind.. Took me long enough to do 20 minutes tho 😄
Was I ripped off. I remember paying £299 in 1996 for my Playstation.
Interesting. If you bought it at the beginning of the year, then it's feasible as the 199 price was for Christmas 96. But yeah 100 quid drop is quite big!!!
@@SebsPlaceYT I think it was 3 days after it came out.
Ah ok, so prob late 1995 then. Still quite a price drop!
@@SebsPlaceYT Now I think of it, it was late November 1995.
I bought the £99 Dual Shock Pack PSX in 1998, got a nice discount on a memory card and controller too, gave it straight to my mate who returned it to me the next day chipped with a stack of CDRs with all the top titles of the day! Bought it with my own money I earned being a slave in a kitchen at a restaurant part time at the age of 17! I have only ever been gifted 2 consoles, my Sega Dreamcast from my best mate and my Sony PlayStation 5 (phat disc) from my wife and I have anything that isn't a Nintendo, Sega fanboy til I die!
This is what makes me laugh about the whiners and moaners of today's gaming.
Gaming today, has produced the biggest bunch of complaining idiots on the planet..... One thing they complain about is the cost.
In terms of hobbies, gaming is among the cheapest and that hasn't really risen in price very much at all.
I am 44....
I remember games being between £34.99 to £44.99 on the NES
Mega Drive games i got with my parents for my birthday, we went in too Southampton city centre, Virgin Megastore and i got Madden and Road Rash on the Mega Drive, both were around the £45 each.
When you look at games on the Series X, PS5 today...... Unless you buy the big deluxe editions, games are between £39.99 and £59.99.
Iv'e been gaming since the 80's and the price of games has hardly risen from 1985 too 2024.
Yet you still get people whining about the cost.
Yeah. Those mega drive games like virtual racing that had extra chips in them were off the chart expensive compared to now!
JT=Just Terrible 😅
Haha love it!!!
Typo for JR, maybe?
Yeah it must be.