Old Heads....How were y'all affording shyt back in the day?? These prices are disgusting

[CP3_da_OG]

Damn, I forgot games used to cost so much back in the day. I only got games for my birthday and Christmas.

I used to get tokens to ride the bus home from school and didn't tell my mom. Used the transportation money I got to buy games or music

Shout out to my moms for doing the best she could for me and my bro, looking at these prices makes me respect her sacrifice even more


R.I.P.

 

[Denzel_Saucegton]

yeah I remember asking my dad for one of the mortal kombat games and he left to go buy it. I was all day and he came back empty handed...saying the game was $80

 

[Knicksman20]

Lmaoo this thread is great. I'm 21 so all I remember is gettin the Sega Dreamcast for Xmas in 2000 (most underrated console) and was blessed with the eventual price drop of video games. shyt was like 40-60 bucks by then until next gen shyt brought the standard to a hard 60. Had Tomb Raider, Sonic Adventure 1&2, NBA Showtime, Crazy Taxi, Soul Caliber 2 & the GOAT Marvel v. Capcom 2. Blockbuster was the ultimate plug cause beside by cousin everyone in my projects had N64 or PSOne. Used to juug Yu-Gi-Oh cards at the Boys & Girls Club and bet lunch money on games of basketball and 4 square to fund my games

GOAT console fam

 

[live it to the limit]

We were happy. I remember my mom putting our 52" on her goldsmiths ( Macy's) credit card. My game boy came with Tetris and must have played it for months before I got a new game. Computers and games weren't that big of a deal because we actually went outside and played. Bikes, skates, kick ball, four square. You didn't need all those electronics and shyt.

 

[patscorpio]

I used to love computer class at school. If it wasn't for carmen santiago and Sim Ant in school, I wouldn't have gave a fukk about computers to this very day Changed my life, made me wanna be in computers for a living

mine was going to a computer camp in the summer of 92..i learned to how to program in basic and played ill games..shyt was

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

I didn't eat lunch from like 9-13, I was buying Nintendo carts at Kmart and later pornos from the other lames with lunch money.

I came home daily, raiding the fridge like a savage. Mom just shook her head. All in the pursuit of a joystick in my hands, dualities, don't even ask me how.

 

[The M.I.C.]

I grew up all over mid town, around Troost if you're familiar with the area.

Fred.

Troost? Back in the 80's and 90's? Damn, breh. KCMO back then was notorious for some outright foolishness back then...I remember me and one of my cousins had to basically rescue one of our other cousins at a house party from off near Forest ave back in the early 90s, damn near got stabbed with the heroics. My pops had his car stolen from around Paseo, I'll never forget that shyt because he was complaining more about just having the car detailed than it actually getting stolen.

 

[Ricky Church]

I had a nice setup with my cousin, he had ADD or some shyt when it came to video games, he'd buy the systems and games and have everything top notch as soon as it came out and I'd go to his house and take advantage of everything and play the games cause it was hardly being used.

Then like a few weeks later he'd be on to something else and would want to sell his "old system" and since we were family my pop's would give him some cash and I'd have practically new everything for a quarter of the price.

 

[Deutsche Bank]

80.00 for Sonic???

100.00 for Toe jam and Earl

32 inch for 900???

50 inch for 1800 ???

Everybody damn near had AOL and this weak ass computer combo...2400?????

That trash 11 inch display computer for 2500???


I know money was worth more back then but cot damn....

Selling dope. You could get your lil paycheck, buy a 8ball and do straight drop and make $100 a gram, sell that shyt out in a couple hours. At one time you could just give dudes bread and they would flip it for you and hand you that shyt back two times. Or you could let dudes do their thing from your crib over the weekend for a lil bullshyt $50-100 a day.

But that computer shyt looks like a rent to own or something. I didn't start using the internet until I was 16 back in '99, and it was a bullshyt off brand Rent A Center, with NetZero. But yeah, as far as stereos and games, all the dudes who had dope dealing going on in the family somewhere had the latest shyt.

Otherwise you had to go to the flea market and buy that stuff used. The resale market was big back then, nowadays they upgrade stuff so fast and stuff breaks down so easily that it's not really palatable. Plus, every black person is on ig perpetrating like they a hedge fund trap lord billionaire now so it's different. Back in the day everybody knew everybody was broke, it wasn't no thing.

 

[Knicksman20]

I didn't eat lunch from like 9-13, I was buying Nintendo carts at Kmart and later pornos from the other lames with lunch money.

I came home daily, raiding the fridge like a savage. Mom just shook her head. All in the pursuit of a joystick in my hands, dualities, don't even ask me how.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I had #17 as a kid. This big metal transformer called Jet Fire I think.

Yep, Jetfire, got it for XMAS that year and broke it soon after
but now that i have money, i went and bought a mint condition one off of Ebay a few years ago and I've been trying to fix other Transformers i still have from childhood

 

[Optimus Prime]

Like its been said, the internet wasn't really a thing until around 1997-98 when all the corporations finally started their websites. I remember Niketalk was a site long before Nike.com had was a site. I think Nike.com finally showed up around 1998.

 

[hex]

Troost? Back in the 80's and 90's? Damn, breh. KCMO back then was notorious for some outright foolishness back then...I remember me and one of my cousins had to basically rescue one of our other cousins at a house party from off near Forest ave back in the early 90s, damn near got stabbed with the heroics. My pops had his car stolen from around Paseo, I'll never forget that shyt because he was complaining more about just having the car detailed than it actually getting stolen.

And I'm white.

There was virtually no white people in those areas back then. I went to school at Central, Paseo and Westport. Anybody with even a slight knowledge of that area and those schools knows they didn't have a bunch of computers and nice shyt. Which is why I was when dude said every school had computers and/or the internet.

Fred.

 

[BaldingSoHard]

I had rich parents but yea the prices of electronics were back then.

 

[Grand Eeezus Maxwell]

I don't remember Genesis games being $80 lmao, I remember N64 games being that much, tho. As far as the AOL goes, real nikkaz kept using the 30-day trial and changing the registration info for that always-free net.