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

[1970s HeRon Flow]

you had to really decide exactly what game you wanted. Get one game for your birthday and one for christmas, if you got really lucky you'd somehow manage to get one in between big holidays or on easter or some shyt. Then you had the GOAT blockbuster or hollywood video. My parents were very forgetful about taking the games back on time i know them late fees were a bytch and then there were games you'd get your fix at your friends house. One of my best friends family was wealthy so he always had all the best shyt

Your white and had a Computer in the early 90's,yo fam had more money then most,only time I seen a computer in early 90's was at school,shyt they made us practice typing on a printed out piece of paper of a keyboard

 

[MarloStanTrill]

you had to really decide exactly what game you wanted. Get one game for your birthday and one for christmas, if you got really lucky you'd somehow manage to get one in between big holidays or on easter or some shyt. Then you had the GOAT blockbuster or hollywood video. My parents were very forgetful about taking the games back on time i know them late fees were a bytch and then there were games you'd get your fix at your friends house. One of my best friends family was wealthy so he always had all the best shyt

When u picked the wrong game

 

[Neil Tyson]

I rememmber making my mom buy Shenmue on Dreamcast for $80

I can't believe I lost it (presumably during the move)

 

[scarlxrd]

Y'all younger generation miss out on a lot because of technology. nikkaz used to get together and have tournaments back in the day, shyt didn't matter if it was sports, fighting, whatever. 10 people, weed, junk food and ONE TV. shyt was some of the most fun I ever had as a kid.

The shyt talking, roasting sessions, just straight ignorance/fun was great

Madden and Fight Night competitions every Saturday at my pops house back in the day

Online play really fukked up the local scene, it let the anti social bytches who would never go to the local scene, have the scene. Now they're making games with zero local co-op but I digress...

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Your white and had a Computer in the early 90's,yo fam had more money then most,only time I seen a computer in early 90's was at school,shyt they made us practice typing on a printed out piece of paper of a keyboard

my family didn't have a computer til the 00's stop with the assumptions. I went to elementary school in the hood it still had a computer class with apple computers where we'd play oregon trail on lan and shyt

 

[1970s HeRon Flow]

my family didn't have a computer til the 00's stop with the assumptions. I went to elementary school in the hood it still had a computer class with apple computers where we'd play oregon trail on lan and shyt

That young and you knew what Lan was I went to school in south central during the 90s gang shyt we had I then worries

 

[IslandG]

When I was younger you didn't get every game, shyt was a strategy. You found out what the homies werw going to get and you got other shyt so you could trade off.

This.

Played tonnes of games in the NES era and only ever owned one. Each person on average had about one or two games, yet evryone played loads of games. We'd just exchange games in high school.

 

[1970s HeRon Flow]

This.

Played tonnes of games in the NES era and only ever owned one. Each person on average had about one or two games, yet evryone played loads of games. We'd just exchange games in high school.

Exchange NES games in high school,damn you

 

[notPsychosiz]

That neo geo sale was actually a deal

Yeah it is... but NeoGeo catridges can run you $200 a pop.


Buying a good Neo Geo game was like buying a console back then.
Now its worst.

Buying a top-tier NeoGeo game now is like buying a cheap car.
"You want Samurai Showdown?" $825
NeoStore.com - Samurai Shodown V English AES


NOPE

Thats not even the Highest one. If you buy Art of Fighting 3 without telling your wife you might be in for a divorce lol...
NeoStore.com - Art of Fighting 3 English AES
$1,950.00

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

That young and you knew what Lan was I went to school in south central during the 90s gang shyt we had I then worries

i mean, the option within the game said "start a lan game"

you were gangbanging in 3rd grade breh?

 

[1970s HeRon Flow]

i mean, the option within the game said "start a lan game"

you were gangbanging in 3rd grade breh?

Pre-K

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Pre-K

i'm sorry u had to grow up so soon breh

 

[IslandG]

Exchange NES games in high school,damn you

Heh.

Probably more due to games and tech released in the States during that era taking a few years before they arrive in the Caribbean. Super NES was already out in the US when most people started getting NESs around these parts.

 

[Mensch Fontana]

How did i afford it? We couldn't.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

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....

150 for system though..

and they came with two controllers