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

[KG1]

Pay was better back then though

 

[O.Red]

The mortal kombat controversy was that it was such a violent and bloody game at the time. The genesis version had blood and the Nintendo version did not. You had to put a code in to get blood on the genesis version.

You got it switched. The SNES version was the one with the blood code. Genesis version had blood out the box

 

[Chris Cool]

i ain't really start getting games until like 99. my dad has like 8-12 kids by like 8 women though, so when we would all converge at grandma's house . our older spoiled bro had everything snes, ps1, n64. he was the oldest though so breh would manipulate us into doing shyt to play. but that 64 changed everything 4 heads at once.

 

[Supreme]

I just bought the games I really wanted. It wasn't like I owned every good game that came out (like I do now). Maybe 10 games a year max (and that would be a good year). Now I just buy whatever. Being an adult with disposable income

Not being married and not having kids helps out a lot too.

You right cause this CS ​

 

[O.Red]

The Sear Xmas Wish Book and Sears Credit

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My nikka I want that shyt right NOW and I'm a grown ass man

 

[1/2 Man 1/2 Hennessy]

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

 

[MeachTheMonster]

You got it switched. The SNES version was the one with the blood code. Genesis version had blood out the box

Nope

While the SNES version's visuals and audio were more accurate than those of the Sega Genesis version, it features changes to the gameplay and due to Nintendo's "Family Friendly" policy, replaces the blood with sweat and most of the fatalities with less violent "finishing moves".[22] On the Sega Genesis version, the blood and uncensored fatalities were available via a cheat code, spelled out "ABACABB",

 

[Clayton Endicott]

were 32 inch tvs consisdered to be a big tv???

Yep. I remember when pops went and copped the 32 inch Sony Triniton back in the day, we were like , but mom dukes was like . Sheeeit, for a minute, my brother and I played Atari on a 13 inch black and white

 

[Clayton Endicott]

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

. NBA 2K, and House Of The Dead 2

 

[Londilon]

I have no idea where you went to school but the Kansas City, Missouri school district was a train wreck for a solid 40+ years. It's well documented.

Not trying to derail the thread but the vast majority of mid town KC was black/minority.....due to this the school district was around 80% black/minority. Due to that every school from kindergarten to high school was literally 95% black/minority, if not more.

So the schools I went to were basically like season 4 of "The Wire". Well, if it had a few white kids. I was one of 5-10 white kids in the schools I went to. By the time I graduated it was a bit more because they had, no joke, started a desegregation program. Not in the 50's....in the 90's.

Anyway, because of all this nobody wanted to spend money on the schools. Or any funds were misused. There was court cases, all kinds of shyt.

And hell, even their little desegregation experiment failed. A few years ago they closed literally half the schools in KC.

Why did Kansas City's public schools fail? - Rod Dreher
https://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/documents/cr114sa2l.pdf
Desegregation History
Missouri v. Jenkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Public School Desegregation and the White Flight:

Fred.

Living on the east coast up north on the outskirts of a major city has its benefits, breh.

 

[O.Red]

Nope

While the SNES version's visuals and audio were more accurate than those of the Sega Genesis version, it features changes to the gameplay and due to Nintendo's "Family Friendly" policy, replaces the blood with sweat and most of the fatalities with less violent "finishing moves".[22] On the Sega Genesis version, the blood and uncensored fatalities were available via a cheat code, spelled out "ABACABB",

Damn nikkas must've put the blood code in for me

NIkkas wanted me to experience the real out the gate

 

[Clayton Endicott]

That's why I laugh when people call devs "lazy" or say gaming is expensive now with DLC.

Gaming is cheaper then ever and games have more content/effort from devs than ever before.

You complaining fukkers should be happy at gaming in 2015


My parents bought one game for Easter and two for Christmas, that's it. If we got lucky we'd get a game for our birthday. I played the shyt out of sonic and altered beast.

My pops had a rule: "If you beat one, then you can get another. And no cheat codes ." You couldn't tell me shyt after I beat Ninja Gaiden, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, and Double Dragon 3

 

[1/2 Man 1/2 Hennessy]

. NBA 2K, and House Of The Dead 2

A.I. wit the 3 peat covers. shyt even NFL 2K was hyphy as fukk

 

[Killigraphy]

Funcoland bruh, got a bevy of SNES games for a dollar each...

 

[Silver Surfer]

a 32 Inch Samsung lcd was like $900