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

[Wild self]

We had to hustle and saved up our lunch money back then. I raked mad neighbors yards, shoveled snow, and the like to get anything outside of 2 games for Christmas. Had to get outstanding grades in the 3rd and 4th for my parents to get the game gear and Genesis games.

Besides, those handful of games had to be extra good, because there was no such thing as DLC back then.

Remember playing the entire Sonic series and Streets of Rage series on Genesis thanks to them hustles.

 

[Wild self]

Sonic 3 was wack though. fukked up graphics

Sonic and Knuckles was way better.

Both of them Locked on was the ultimate 16 bit platformer experience.

 

[Wild self]

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

between the Neo Geo and the 3DO, there were consoles for every income level. Now with the monopolization of todays console gaming is

 

[IslandG]

Nothing worse than telling your parents you wanted a specific game and they go to the store or on your birthday and return with a random different [and worse] game, saying that

a. they couldn't find it,
b. the game you wanted was too expensive, or
c. someone recommended something different.

'c' was the worse as you're wondering who was the fukk nikka who recommended such a shyt game to your moms.

 

[puppetmaster]

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. We also had Blockbuster and other places to rent games from so you didn't need everything.

Today you only really have Redbox to rent from (gamefly for those who fukk wit it) but they (Redbox) only carry AAA titles. Also you have online play now so you HAVE to have every game. Gaming back in the day was a lot different than today.

Agreed. We worked the barter system to perfection with gadgets in my neighborhood

 

[Address_Unknown]

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.

Pretty much this. I remember when the Snes came out and my mom used to give me the Sears Catalouge and order shyt out of it. Met up with another mate who had it as good as me, he decided to get the Genesis, I got the Super Nintendo, we picked games and played at each other's house during Christmas and Boxing day . Turtles in Time to Streets of Rage. After that whenever someone got a new game it was sort of a tradeable commodity, like for instance a mate of mine got Contra the Alien wars so I never tried to get it, since I could from him. He did the same when Super Street Fighter came out and that's how everyone within walking distance you were cool with ate.

Plus I had it a bit better than most since my mom would buy games for me on X-mas, my Birthday if I was lucky and she might bring back a game if she went to America around that time. I still remember when she bought me Mortal Kombat II and it had that Parental Advisary warning and she hit me with the ''You ain't 18" and I was like "Lady, you bought me the first one, there it is, wanna see a fatality?"
Around the Ps-x era dudes went the lunch money route and started saving up hardcore and the rest is history.


The dudes rocking Neo Geo's and shyt were on a level we didn't even bother to fukk with, though. Their families was on that Scarface/Nino Brown money.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Nothing worse than telling your parents you wanted a specific game and they go to the store or on your birthday and return with a random different [and worse] game, saying that

a. they couldn't find it,
b. the game you wanted was too expensive, or
c. someone recommended something different.

'c' was the worse as you're wondering who was the fukk nikka who recommended such a shyt game to your moms.

I used to know where my parents kept the Christmas stuff. We were begging for a Playstation, so I knew we got that. But I looked in the closet and saw we got Ray-man with it .

Knowing games like ridge racer tekken and nba jam were out I'm like "fukk".

From that day on I dropped so many hints to my pops that I didn't want Ray-Man. Even went so far as to go to blockbuster with him and purposely point out Ray-Man as a shytty game I wouldn't want to play

In the end it he got the hint and must have took it back. We got tekken and ridge racer for Christmas

 

[KushSkywalker]

I used to know where my parents kept the Christmas stuff. We were begging for a Playstation, so I knew we got that. But I looked in the closet and saw we got Ray-man with it .

Knowing games like ridge racer tekken and nba jam were out I'm like "fukk".

From that day on I dropped so many hints to my pops that I didn't want Ray-Man. Even went so far as to go to blockbuster with him and purposely point out Ray-Man as a shytty game I wouldn't want to play

In the end it he got the hint and must have took it back. We got tekken and ridge racer for Christmas

Thats foul.

He musta been when he got the hint.

Prolly thought you were gonna be when he first copped it.

 

[YvrzTrvly]

Little did he know rayman is a classic platformer.

Young breh game prolly holds up to the day

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Little did he know rayman is a classic platformer.

Young breh game prolly holds up to the day

That's what even funnier about it. The recent Rayman games are some of my favorites ever.

In 2015 if I could pick between ridge racer, tekken, and rayman. I'd pick rayman everytime.

 

[YvrzTrvly]

No doubt even the last rayman game idk if it was a remaster or not was fukkin piff.

You should apologize to pops to restore ur kharmic circle

 

[NatiboyB]

Thats foul.

He musta been when he got the hint.

Prolly thought you were gonna be when he first copped it.

My son has done this to me...I was totally clueless about why he would want skylanders over disney xfinity....But fukk it...

 

[IslandG]

In them days even having a Gameboy was a rare thing. When someone would bring one to school he'd have a whole crowd him all day watching him play, or asking to play. If you're lucky he'd let you play and they'd pass the Gameboy around.

Them days Gameboys didn't have internal rechargeable batteries, so sometimes if you wanted to play that person's Gameboy you'd have to go buy your own batteries. lol.

Young homie couldn't even afford Duracell them days , it was some cheap Everready batteries we would buy which would not last long. When the green screen on the Gameboy started flickering you know the fun was soon over.

But nikkas desperate to play so we'd try all kinds of things to get the batteries to last longer. Rubbing them. Putting them in the refrigerator. Letting them rest for a few minutes. lol.

Sometimes you'd open up the battery case in the Gameboy and you'd see like 4 different brands of batteries , some with power left in them, and some practically empty.

 

[Address_Unknown]

Man, I'm combing through this thread getting hit with Nostalgia bullets and I gotta drop this one.
Who in here damn near caught the belt for forgetting to switch the telly back to regular cable?

I remember one night my mom got a phone call cause one of our friend's mom called, CURSING HER, THE fukk, OUT. "Oh! ADDRESS_UNKNOWN AND DEM BOYS COME UP IN AH ME HOUSE! DUTTY UP ME CARPET AND MASH UP ME NEW BRAND BIG SCREEN! CABLE NAH SHOW! DI SCREEN PON BLACK! BLAAAAAAAACK! ME JUS BUY DIS 'HYA WID ME MONEY, NOW DEM DUTTY FOOT BOY MASH 'EM UP!!!"

This was like in the middle of a school night and I was shook to all fukk 'cause we was over there playing NBA Jam or some shyt, but I'm trying to tell my mom and her (Over the phone) that we didn't break shyt, her step son (Dude's dad had some ratchet sidebytch who moved in with him) had the shyt hooked up and all we did was come over with the games, played afterschool and bounced when evening set in.

Had to walk on over there with Mom cause she was pissed, looking to ban me from going over to anyone else's house or having them come over and that would have been a death sentence since that's how we ate back in those days and the dudes that didn't let you into their houses never came over to ours. So I'm worried to all fukk thinking I'm gonna get blacklisted, we roll up and the bytch is STILL going off (My friend wasn't home for some odd ass reason), shouting at my mom about payment (We were well off enough since my mom hadn't built a house yet and spoiled me to a point back then) for her shyts, and she singled us out 'cause she figured we'd cave and replace it...I go turn it on "SEE! BLACKNISS! PURRRE BLACKNISS!" the bytch screams, I fiddle with the remote for a minute....Input...Input...Input.....Cable comes back on.
"Ah wha him do? AH WHA YOU DO BWOY???"

My mom's a nice, demure lady and she just went "The Tv working fine now, right? Want to flip through all the channels?" bytch and my partner's pops who looked like he didn't want no part of whatever was going on said shyt was fine, HE apologized, we stepped outside into the room and she hit me with the "You come over here again for anything again I going to beat yuh skunt. Keep out these people place, doh let that boy come over by we a fukk."
Got stories for days on some oldschool bullshyt we did trying to game, man.

 

[IslandG]

Man, I'm combing through this thread getting hit with Nostalgia bullets and I gotta drop this one.
Who in here damn near caught the belt for forgetting to switch the telly back to regular cable?

I remember one night my mom got a phone call cause one of our friend's mom called, CURSING HER, THE fukk, OUT. "Oh! ADDRESS_UNKNOWN AND DEM BOYS COME UP IN AH ME HOUSE! DUTTY UP ME CARPET AND MASH UP ME NEW BRAND BIG SCREEN! CABLE NAH SHOW! DI SCREEN PON BLACK! BLAAAAAAAACK! ME JUS BUY DIS 'HYA WID ME MONEY, NOW DEM DUTTY FOOT BOY MASH 'EM UP!!!"

This was like in the middle of a school night and I was shook to all fukk 'cause we was over there playing NBA Jam or some shyt, but I'm trying to tell my mom and her (Over the phone) that we didn't break shyt, her step son (Dude's dad had some ratchet sidebytch who moved in with him) had the shyt hooked up and all we did was come over with the games, played afterschool and bounced when evening set in.

Had to walk on over there with Mom cause she was pissed, looking to ban me from going over to anyone else's house or having them come over and that would have been a death sentence since that's how we ate back in those days and the dudes that didn't let you into their houses never came over to ours. So I'm worried to all fukk thinking I'm gonna get blacklisted, we roll up and the bytch is STILL going off (My friend wasn't home for some odd ass reason), shouting at my mom about payment (We were well off enough since my mom hadn't built a house yet and spoiled me to a point back then) for her shyts, and she singled us out 'cause she figured we'd cave and replace it...I go turn it on "SEE! BLACKNISS! PURRRE BLACKNISS!" the bytch screams, I fiddle with the remote for a minute....Input...Input...Input.....Cable comes back on.
"Ah wha him do? AH WHA YOU DO BWOY???"

My mom's a nice, demure lady and she just went "The Tv working fine now, right? Want to flip through all the channels?" bytch and my partner's pops who looked like he didn't want no part of whatever was going on said shyt was fine, HE apologized, we stepped outside into the room and she hit me with the "You come over here again for anything again I going to beat yuh skunt. Keep out these people place, doh let that boy come over by we a fukk."
Got stories for days on some oldschool bullshyt we did trying to game, man.

Yeah I got mad stories about gaming back in the day too.