>>11515765
>Had no idea games were just as expensive 20 years ago for even more primitive gameplay
As someone who loves retro gaming, one thing I gotta say is that everyone who pushing "new bad, old good" has rose tinted goggles for 90's gaming, primarily because they don't have to fucking pay for it. Until the internet became big you had to buy magazines (or sneak a read) to get an opinion on what you are buying and if you chose wrong you could end up dropping $50-60 on Aero the fucking Acrobat.
Nowadays if I want to buy a new game I have major website reviews, YouTube reviewers, forums full of people talking about the game and if that is not enough I can open a longplay / no commentary walkthrough.
Pricing nowadays is also nice. Even most AAA games don't stay at $60 for long and most of the games I care about (2D) have reasonable base prices and good sales prices. Sonic Mania, Streets of Rage 4, Pocky and Rocky Reshrined, Ninja Warriors Once Again, Cotton Reboot / Fantasy, Megaman 11, Blazing Chrome, Cuphead, TMNT Shredders Revenge and too many Medroidvania's to count were all cheap on sale and I am waiting on Rita's Rewind to get that nice $15-20 sale.
I hate much of modern day gaming for the usual reasons but all the old games are free, all the new games I care about are cheap and once and a while the AAA studios actually drop something I give a fuck about so I like current day quite a bit.

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