How much did games cost for the spectrum/C64/Atari ST /Amiga ?

HangTime said:
Anyone else remember when VAT went up to 17.5% (not a couple of years ago, late 80s or summat), it meant a £1.99 game suddenly cost £2.05 and a £2.99 game cost £3.05 or summat like that? I used to buy a lot of games in WH Smith and they had to change all the price stickers, lol :)
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Yep, I remember it well. Some of the re-stickering was totally illegal because the games were price marked by the publishers, but what could anyone really do about that...

Anyone remember EDOS (stood for Electronic Distribution of Software) - you'd choose the game you wanted from a little catalogue and the shop would type in a code on their distribution machine and it would run it off onto tape or disk for you. I bought Back to Skool for the Spectrum and Rock Star Ate My Hamster for the Amiga on that...
 
Mr_Orange said:
Beneath a Steel Sky is free on gog.com fully voiced and made to work on modern computers: http://www.gog.com/game/beneath_a_steel_sky
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I LOVE Beneath A Steel Sky, I didn't play the original-original discussed above but a slightly later version (perhaps as late as the first CD version but I forget)...

Still if you've not heard of or played it I implore you to get it - it really is awesome :)
 
I guess it's not 100% on topic but there's an interesting chart here that shows the prices of consoles over the years taking inflation into mind:

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uncle_rufus said:
I LOVE Beneath A Steel Sky, I didn't play the original-original discussed above but a slightly later version (perhaps as late as the first CD version but I forget)...

Still if you've not heard of or played it I implore you to get it - it really is awesome :)
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Beneath a Steel Sky is a very unforgiving Adventure games as you can be killed in it. 99% of other adventure games just allowed you to get stuck in your progress. I currently have Sky on my Nexus via SCUMM.
 
Nimdok said:
I guess it's not 100% on topic but there's an interesting chart here that shows the prices of consoles over the years taking inflation into mind:

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Pretty Cool that.
I had my PS1 imported all the way from Japan at the time of release in 1994 for a cool £900 with 2 games Ridge Racer and Tekken. At this point i then boxed up my Neo Geo and put it in the attic after playing it to death since 1991. Most people in this country didnt even know what a PS1 was let alone acquire one at the time for atleast 12 months later. The UK PS1's were crap because all games ran at 50hz (PAL) compared to the JAP and US which were NTSC (60hz).

This was long before the Public Internet existed, you had to do your homework through Grey import to acquire the hardware and you really did get something that hardly anyone else in the country had at the time.

The difference was night and day, playing Tekken on a UK PS1 was like watching slideshow compared to the superior JAP and US consoles. You also had to have a Scart TV at the time which was expensive as it was not really a UK standard.

I never ever bought UK consoles, all my consoles from days gone by have always been Jap or US.

Good times although i do not miss the very short leads on all the JAP consoles, all the JAPS sit ontop of there TV's and they all live in highrise apartments hence the short leads on the consoles, i think theyve been running out of room over there for years.
 
The Guru said:
Beneath a Steel Sky is a very unforgiving Adventure games as you can be killed in it. 99% of other adventure games just allowed you to get stuck in your progress. I currently have Sky on my Nexus via SCUMM.
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Well yeah sure but you can also save so if you do manage to die then you can just load back up... Don't you think the added risk makes it a more tense experience? Plus I thought a lot of the death scenes were pretty cool animation to watch :D
 
uncle_rufus said:
Well yeah sure but you can also save so if you do manage to die then you can just load back up... Don't you think the added risk makes it a more tense experience? Plus I thought a lot of the death scenes were pretty cool animation to watch :D
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Oh yes most definitely makes it more unique being able to die as well as a more tense experience/immersion. Its one of the many adventure games over the years that ive never forgotton, probably because of how difficult the game was;)
 
The Guru said:
Oh yes most definitely makes it more unique being able to die as well as a more tense experience/immersion. Its one of the many adventure games over the years that ive never forgotton, probably because of how difficult the game was;)
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I just really liked the setting as well and the art style... the music (in the version I had)... the voice acting (same)... but most of all I think - the humour - that is the #1 thing missing from a lot of games these days - it's actually funny and it's actually still funny the 2nd, 3rd, etc playthrough - just good writing and delivery of the lines :D Others may think I'm just wearing my rose-tinted spectacles but no - I've played the game very recently and it's just as good as I remember
 
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