For some, the prices of the video games seem to be an issue these days. But in fact, they are not more expensive than they were back in the 80’s or the 90’s. GameFocus kept some old newspapers and shares with you some of the old promotions regarding NES and the Sega Genesis as they were introduced in Canada.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Sega had such a turbulent existence from the mid-90s to when they dropped out of console manufacturing entirely in 2001, it’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the Genesis Nomad.
I dunno even based on those pictures, $79.99 and in the case of Phantasy Star - $94.99 those seem a lot more expensive than today's prices.
I remember a lot of N64 games costing $99.99 here in Canada.
Yes, you are right.
what they aren't factoring in is, back then... when you bought a game, it was complete... done, that was it. Now you get the game with half the stuff locked on the disk until you buy all the pesky DLC.. once you add it all up it's like $240 for call of duty some times... but i guess that's just the business right? Bend over and take it.
Steam, PS+, Ebay, I wish we have had those back in the day
Galaga at $54.99