Prices did just creep up over the decades. I came across an old flyer frop '93 when I was visiting my house, and there were new games in it for $20 to $30 CAD. Which was expensive, but not like today when you want to get a kid a copy of Smash for Switch and they’re still retailing that for €70 over here in France (like… 9 years later).
My favourite games over the last decade have been cheapies.
Have you played Annalynn? On sale for pocket change, short, fun, challenging, cute. Getting Indie games on sale is so great, and you can replace Annalynn with any indie release you want and change the adjectives. Ant game that is made by people that clearly enjoy games is better than the monster overpriced games on store shelves.
Prices did just creep up over the decades. I came across an old flyer frop '93 when I was visiting my house, and there were new games in it for $20 to $30 CAD. Which was expensive, but not like today when you want to get a kid a copy of Smash for Switch and they’re still retailing that for €70 over here in France (like… 9 years later).
My favourite games over the last decade have been cheapies.
Have you played Annalynn? On sale for pocket change, short, fun, challenging, cute. Getting Indie games on sale is so great, and you can replace Annalynn with any indie release you want and change the adjectives. Ant game that is made by people that clearly enjoy games is better than the monster overpriced games on store shelves.
AAA games are significantly cheaper in real terms than they were in the 90s.
30 CAD in 1993 is about 58 CAD today, and those weren’t even the most expensive games in the flyer you saw then.
Especially console titles were expensive by modern standards, the main titles like Mario games retailed for something like 150 USD in 2026 dollars.
Do you know how inflation works? Cause good God this statement…