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Article #721047Re: Games Reviewers Not Doing The Job Properly
From: Peter Huebner
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:10
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:10
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In article <hjsoqa5o7empcpkfa...@4ax.com>, rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com says... > > On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 23:55:05 -0400, Rin Stowleigh > <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote: [snip] > Just a side note. It's kind of funny to see a $40 price tag on an > Apple wargame in 1981. And people bitch about $50-60 in 2015 :) > > From the October 1990 issue: > > "The IBM version of Red Baron will be released in October > ($59.95). An Amiga version is planned but no release date has been > announced." > > Holy shit they were ahead of their time. They predicted the base > price of a AAA title 2.5 decades later ;) Well back in the day we were gouged $150 for a game, here in NZ. That's more or less what I paid for MOO1 and the like. One reason I ended up getting a credit card and buying overseas ... and why a lot of people resorted to piracy. Digital distribution has levelled the playing field in that respect, at least for games and ebooks. -P.
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