Feeling ripped off by Nintendo

WatchTower said:
I can't remember the exact price but did anyone buy Virtua Racing for the Megadrive? I hear that was insanely expensive. One off technology was used in that cartridge which was never used in any other Megadrive game so I hear.
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I think you're right, as it was a PITA to emulate for ages IIRC.
 
Once you are all done with all your reminiscence on how much you paid for some old tosh back then, has anyone come up with a decent solution on how I / we / the entire Wii owning universe, can get around having to pay for all their VC DLC content again?
 
Paying 50-90 quid for cartridge games must have been tough to bare if the game wasnt as good as it was thaught to be. I imagine you had to convince your self it was good and play the damn thing as much as possible ;)

Back when I was buying games for Spectrum/C64/Amiga games were anything from 1.99 to 19.99 so the hit wasnt as bad if the game ended up being poo (convinced they were good by magazine reviews). Still when being on £1 a week pocket money and mostly relighing on birthday/christmas and suprise visits from granny for money, it was still a dissapointment if even a 2.99 game was bad.

Im pretty sure my nes/sms/megadrive/snes owning freinds were having games funded by their parents as they still managed to build quite a colection concidering the cart pricies.

my first console was an Atari 2600 , and apart from the 7 or so carts that came with it, I dont think I baught more then 2 carts for it due to price. Borrowed games mostly from freinds dads ;)
 
MadMatty said:
Paying 50-90 quid for cartridge games must have been tough to bare if the game wasnt as good as it was thaught to be. I imagine you had to convince your self it was good and play the damn thing as much as possible ;)

Back when I was buying games for Spectrum/C64/Amiga games were anything from 1.99 to 19.99 so the hit wasnt as bad if the game ended up being poo (convinced they were good by magazine reviews). Still when being on £1 a week pocket money and mostly relighing on birthday/christmas and suprise visits from granny for money, it was still a dissapointment if even a 2.99 game was bad.

Im pretty sure my nes/sms/megadrive/snes owning freinds were having games funded by their parents as they still managed to build quite a colection concidering the cart pricies.

my first console was an Atari 2600 , and apart from the 7 or so carts that came with it, I dont think I baught more then 2 carts for it due to price. Borrowed games mostly from freinds dads ;)
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The thing is, back then, people didn't whine like they do today. Magazines were big business so you relied on reviews quite a lot, but we put up with littles problems.

If a game like mariokart was released today, it would get ripped to bits on here. But at the time it was a masterpiece.

The playstation/internet generation of gamers are a bunch of women imo.
 
It is harsh but you must've known this when your actually downloaded it buddy, its why most ppl use emulators. But yeh i can see why your angry about it.
 
At £40 a game once you account for inflation we don't do too badly these days. The cost of manufacturing has come down but the cost of production has increased massively.
 
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