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zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours agoNot the point of your story, but when the hell were LPs and video games that cheap. I would think that any time that LPs were that cheap would be before video games even existed.
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zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours agoNot the point of your story, but when the hell were LPs and video games that cheap. I would think that any time that LPs were that cheap would be before video games even existed.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
Early 1980s. LPs from Woolies, video games from Boots (and there were Mastertronic budget titles for £2).
More than once I swapped the £1.99 price sticker on a budget game for the £9.99 price sticker on a premium game, mostly in Boots or WH Smith’s in Dumfries. Fun bonus fact. This was in the days before EPOS systems and barcode readers at the checkout. Only a bored teenager on the till between me and illicit Commodore 64 glory.
I do still wonder if anyone ever bought any of the cheap games for the full ten quid though.
Note: not all Mastertronic games were bad. I loved Kikstart, Finders Keepers, KP Skips Action Biker with Clumsy Colin (I had to look that one up), and The Last V8 - though I think maybe the Last V8 was in their premium £2.99 range.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
I feel like we were getting scammed in the US then. I, in the US, was paying over $20 for Atari 2600 games and over $50 for some fairly early NES games. I know Mastertronic was mostly for cheap Sega games