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Originally Posted by Pablo
If I look back at electronics from my early childhood there were OBSCENELY priced compared to today. A video game has been $60 for the last 30 years and a system $500 as well
How the hell did my dad, a factory worker, afford that shit unless his dollar was just worth much much more than mine?
I guess at least he had factory jobs that paid a living wage to choose from.
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I was 4 or 5 when my father bought an Intellivision from the local small town drug store.
$300. That's $1200 today. I'd tell my kids to play in traffic if they asked me to pay that for a Switch or XBOX.
We had two Betamax (yep, we were that family) video recorders so we could rent and record. Those things were insane expensive.
I'm not even going to look into what he paid for the Apple IIe I wrote papers on.....