Wow never realized how good a deal we were getting and what the heck is Ex-Mutant anyway?

I still got my Pokemon Red,and Sega Genesis with its 6-pack game. I hope its worth some money in the future.

I would like to see what the average amount of money a person pays for a game today is when the cost of DLC is added on to $60 price of a 360 or PS3 game.

I buy my favorite games at any price.Better not be over 100 dollars though.

Well I already knew this. Heck, I paid $80 for some NES games for sure. I remember paying $75 for Blast Corps, an N64 game, and getting yelled at for it. Games were expensive back then.

Thank goodness for patience and best selling games that go for around $20.

I had always figured as much, especially when reading about NES games that retailed at $100+. Tidbits like that always made me look back and realize that, for the most part, $60 isn't bad. Of course, I rarely buy games at full-price anyway - I like to wait for "Greatest Hits" or simply retailer price cuts xD

This actually doesn't surprise me. I remember growing up and seeing Genesis games that were 30-40 dollars at Toys R Us, and N64 games that were $50, and these weren't even the exceptions. Games like I See You Pikachu (I never played or even saw the game being played for those wondering) were as much as $80. $60 does seem like a price hike and one that makes people hesitant to buy games but I can only imagine what my parents must have thought when I was asking for a new game after finishing/getting bored with an old one. I still have a pretty large Genesis game collection, without a doubt it's the largest of any system I've ever owned. Something like 70 games, although some were gotten for much cheaper than $30.

Heh, that picture reminds me of the days when I would loiter in Funcoland and read the pricing newspaper thing they had - just cuz. I never had any money or even other games to trade usually x.x

Just a guss but I bet it is because more copies of a game are being bought these days.  That helps cover the cost of making a game.  Hence each copy does not need to cover as much cost of making the game.

i think i paid 60 for ocarina of time.

Hmm yeah well maybe here in the states but in other places is almos 20% more.

I still remember saving my allowance to pay $80 for Turok on N64..that was what, 14, 15 years ago? Yeesh. Can't imagine how much my parents shelled out for games for me.

Even though i buy all my games new, i still get a ton of good deals most the time. Often Best Buy will have promotions cutting the price specific new games down from 60 to 40 bucks. In addtion, if you get all the rewards zone points for preordering the games the coupons for 5 or 10 bucks can be stacked with the deals.

For every 150 spent on games you get 10 bucks as well as every 500 points you get another 10 bucks with 1 point= 1 dollar spent.

I'll still shop around and buy games from walmart or gamestop every now and then, but usually i'll get my stuff from best buy for the points.

Oh and FYI if you buy Castlevania Lords of Shadow while its new, it comes with Castlevania Symphonies of the Night (PS1) for FREE which is 10 bucks on psn. I was really happy about that. Prob one of the best bonuses ever. Both games have around scores of 90 on metacritic. Pretty good deal. More established series should do this. (I think deadspace and medal of honor both are doing something similar as well with extraction and frontline.)

Im still holding off on uncharted 2 for the version where you get 35 bucks worth of free dlc. lol.

>w> *stares at the 112$ price tag for Dead Rising 2 for the PS3*

Um... theres a pretty important factor missing. The wealth of content in games out of the box now is significantly smaller. Game price per hour to completion is 3-5 times higher now than then. So straight MONEY, yeah... they're right, but you're actually paying more for less today.

Well here in Australia new games prices are $100AU to $120AU. In a recent issue of gameinformer AUS it said that after you convert the currencys from US to AUS we pay over $20 more.

wow.  i guess i should stop complaining.  

I will pay 60 to 80 for a game but not 90 or more for a game...

I paid $80 for SM64 the day the N64 released, and would go on to pay the same amount for many other N64 titles.