The only way I get to roundabout $200 now is if OOP is talking about 1983/84, but the NES hadn’t even released in NA back then, so that’s somewhat unlikely?
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Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 3 weeks agoHmm when I look it up with this bank of Canada website it claims a game from 2011 that cost 60CAD would be $83 today. I’m wondering if there’s other tools I can use to cross reference? Just curious how you got to the $200 number. Maybe I’m wrong.
any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Oh man, 2011… I’m a millennial, and even I was already out of college in 2011. My ‘kid’ games were $80 USD in the 90s. Here’s an article from 2014 that someone made about how insane N64 game prices were.
Star Fox 64 – $79.95 (Source: GamePro #106) - 1997 GoldenEye 007 – $69.95 (Source: GamePro #108) - 1997 Super Mario 64 – $66.99 (Source: GamePro #97) - 1996
According to the CPI Inflation Calculator, $80 USD in 1997 is $160 today.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s a different example but Super Street Fighter II for the SNES was CAD$99.99 in the 1994 Sears Wishbook which is CAD$191 in today dollars.
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I think that you guys may have been kids in different decades.