Respectfully speaking, were/are your parents stupid or something? That's like thinking that 1nce you by a video player, then you all good cuz it's not like the thing needs video tapes to operate ya know....
Anywho, while we weren't outright broke, it was just me and my moms most of my youth growing up and she'd only get me a game on special occasions like birthday, Christmas and if I made honor roll in school. So from NES-SNES years, I'd only average about 3-4 games a year, with getting 2 games on Christmas, but only 1 for any other occasion. While I was smart enough, I was too lazy to make honor roll year round, as it was more like 1nce a school year, lol. Games were much more expensive in cartridge form too, so I know I'd almost never get more than 2 at any given time.
Come PSX years tho and the change to cheaper disc format, and my moms making more money then, on Christmas, I could usually get about 3-4 games and maybe 2 games for birthdays. So on average, I was getting about 4-6 games a year at least. At any rate, from NES thru PSX years, I played the bulk of my games moreso thru borrowing from friends/family and renting them and just got the games bought for me that I wanted most.
I didn't get a job until after high school, when the PS2 had just came out, so that was the first time I was actually buying games with my own money. At that point, I was buying games at least 1nce a month or so tho, plus this was Funcoland era, so trade-ins and 1-week returns ruled the day, so I was getting mad games then, though still pales in comparison to the last 10 years tho. PS3 era thru now, I've been getting like 3-4 games a month AT LEAST nearly, as there's always multitudes of sales, PSN+, coupons, steam deals, etc. so it's nothing. It surprises me that whiny ass would be gamers stay bytching and moaning about gaming being too much money these days. My main complaint is moreso time to actually play the games I have.
Had to wait like 2 months to get one
for a while. That MGS demo was just 
oh lord! 
