I guess you are.
What you paid or others has no relevance to me. I'm telling you what I paid.
As for weather or not that it matters.. well it seems that it does to you, as I some how offended you that I got my games cheaper than yourself.
Anyway, deal with it.
Ok ive dealt with it, that you paid half the price the rest of the whole country for newly released full price games. I guess you put less than everyone else, good for you, im jealous.
This is very, very wrong. Nigh on all games were re-released to this price. A 'premium' game on the C64 was normally between £7-10 and a few months later it would be in your local newsagents for £1.99 or £2.99. Disk games were a little more expensive.
Also there were a lot of games that initially came out really cheaply and were fantastic (Dizzy games for example).
Finally there were the magazines whereby you paid around £2 for the magazine and a tape which usually included a couple of games.
M.
How am i wrong? Read the rest of my posts instead of my first post before you say im wrong as ive said pretty much the same as you further down the thread. I mentioned games going onto the Kixx label/The Hit squad etc.
And not all games made it here after a few months especially if they sold well.
Not once did i see anygame from System 3, Cinemaware, Argonaut etc etc on budget label. Like somebody else said in the thread you either paid up for a full price game, copied it or hoped it came to budget.
There were some good games like Curse of sherwood on the Mastertronic range (which was also very hard even with cheats) which were good but the majority of them wasnt good. You would have 1 good game for every 7 or 8 bad ones.
Most of the best games stayed at full price and it was longer than a few months before they came out on budget, more like 12 months minimum.
And in my experience newsagents didnt have the full range of games, they had a select few. If you wanted to see all new games you had to go to Virgin, Boots, WHSmiths or John Menzies( The big store not the little one) otherwise you would never see games like Last Ninja or Barbarian from Palace software (head chopper 1987) in a newsagent at full price. Newsagents were always behind the big stores by alongway. Waste of time newsagents were unless you were looking for something from Kixx or the Hit Squad which by the time a premium game was put on these labels you had either already bought it and finished it full price or you had moved on to its sequel or something else. I guess i was lucky as i had all the latest games at premium price for all computers, my parents were good like that. I have bin bags full of original games and there boxes with some receipts and you wont find one game in there on the Hit squad or Kixx label.
Edit....Infact here is one i have next to me as i was playing it yesterday as i needed the decoder wheel for fuel consumption, Rocket Ranger from Cinemaware. Also have the original Elite here. Have the receipt also, zoom and and you can see the price 24.99 like most games either 24.99 or 19.99. I bought this game in the summer of 1989 as soon as it was released as you can see from the reciept. Taken quickly from my phone.
