this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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when can i stop living in this universe and switch back to the one we originally were on? man i miss it so much. That and original pizzahut
Convince another weasel to dine on the particle collider in Switzerland.
and those planters cheeseballs. the new ones don't have as much msg
you never did and you never will.
games cost about 4x what they do today back then. you were paying 40-80 dollars per game, and they never got discounted really unless they became a huge hit and got a best seller release and maybe they went down to 20-30, in 2026 dollars, that's between 40-160 dollars per game. which is the reason why most folks only bought like 2-4 games a year if they were lucky. now you are buying dozens of games per year for like $100-200.
In Germany you could buy most games for 12.95DM in the 90s/10€ in the 2000s, if you were willing to wait a year after the initial release. And unless you had enough money to buy the newest PC, you often had to resort to last year's games anyway. As a comparison, I got 20DM for mowing my neighbours lawn.
These re-releases came with just a jewel case and no box, the manual was a PDF on the disk but on the other hand they often had some bugs fixed since the first release.
i buy two games per year for $100 tops but more like $50 after shipping and taxes. my personal and local public library give me plenty to do.