Hell yea. The gaming section and the Lego section in Zellers is where i lived.
mcfeelyswg
Until you realize $200 dollars in 97 is equivalent to about $500 today
outtastudy
I know I miss Zellers too
JillValentine69X
Sony is gonna be charging more than Nintendo used to pretty soon for games. Kind of ironic that the main selling point was that it was not only cheaper to manufacture discs but it cut the costs down by half. Now that games don’t even need that, games are still going up in price.
Holiday-Rich-3344
Minimum wage was $5.00 per hour before taxes in 1997. That means you took home $4.35 if you were lucky. $199.99 wasn’t a drop in the bucket.
PuzzledFig7169
Still have the N64. Had two PS1s at two different times.
UnableToFindName
Now that’s a deeply-forgotten core memory resurfacing.
nrkey4ever
I have all these on an external hard drive that cost about that much.
jerminator1102
I remember the day my mom randomly got my brother and I together, took us to Walmart and got us an N64 with goldeneye. On the way home she was staring at the receipt with a full on face palm. Lmao. That was a lot of dinero back then.
Sea_Caterpillar5662
Still hit up the N64 sometimes
NugKnights
If you calculate for inflation, goldeneye would cost $158.27 today
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Hell yea. The gaming section and the Lego section in Zellers is where i lived.
Until you realize $200 dollars in 97 is equivalent to about $500 today
I know I miss Zellers too
Sony is gonna be charging more than Nintendo used to pretty soon for games. Kind of ironic that the main selling point was that it was not only cheaper to manufacture discs but it cut the costs down by half. Now that games don’t even need that, games are still going up in price.
Minimum wage was $5.00 per hour before taxes in 1997. That means you took home $4.35 if you were lucky. $199.99 wasn’t a drop in the bucket.
Still have the N64. Had two PS1s at two different times.
Now that’s a deeply-forgotten core memory resurfacing.
I have all these on an external hard drive that cost about that much.
I remember the day my mom randomly got my brother and I together, took us to Walmart and got us an N64 with goldeneye. On the way home she was staring at the receipt with a full on face palm. Lmao. That was a lot of dinero back then.
Still hit up the N64 sometimes
If you calculate for inflation, goldeneye would cost $158.27 today
[https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1fn60cs/found_an_old_97_flyers_from_a_canadian_store/](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1fn60cs/found_an_old_97_flyers_from_a_canadian_store/)
Paying almost 160 USD for a game?
Inflation adjusted of course
…f*ck Canada, man
$80 for Goldeneye or Starfox?! Shit even some of the Playstation titles are $80, no way would I want to go back to that.
It’s an absolute crime that metal gear solid is not on that list.
$30 for a 8mb proprietary flash drive is ridiculous!
/s
Adjusted for inflation that’s $400.
is that 79.99 for Final Fantasy VII!?
Damn, controllers only cost around $25 back then. DAMN GAMES COST $80!
$69 for a game?
FF7 was worth its price tag. You would have had many hours of fun with it.
I miss Dream Cast
I miss Zellers 😞