Most Expenive game you bought in years 1990-2000

[Danmaku]

Art of fighting 2 uk version few days after the day one in 1994 450.000 lire (at the time the currency was lire)

 

[joe8]

Art of fighting 2 uk version few days after the day one in 1994 450.000 lire (at the time the currency was lire)

How much is that in todays lire/Euros?
A US dollar today is only worth roughly half what it was in 1994 (two decades ago), for example. A decade of inflation is about 40%. 40% compounded over two decades is about a 100% increase.

 

[Pantarou]

Road Runner for SNES as a child, 139 DM ( German Mark ) .That should be about 75 Euros in today's currency.So much Pocket-Money wasted for a bad Game.
Normally the SNES Games at that time sold for about 95-120 DM, which already was much for a kid.

 

[aha2940]

I didn't have many games back in the day, but the most expensive I think was Super Street Fighter II for the SNES, back in 94 or 95. It costed like $59 IIRC at a downtown store in Miami (family vacation). That was a whole lot of money back then. I still have that same cart CIB and play it from time to time.

Regards.

 

[Grendell]

At this time i gues all the big boxed snes Games where realy extensive like secret of mana , super metroid and so on,
For super metroid i paid 130-140 DM and the worst thing a few weeks ago i had to Pay the same just in euro because i lost my first copy

Edit. First time buying 130dm , buying it now 130-170 Euro

 

[ebinsugewa]

Probably Super Smash Bros. It was like $69 at the time, which is around $100 today. I didn't buy a lot of new games back in the day for this reason.

 

[K-2]

I lived at Funcoland for a reason. Getting a new game was a big deal and didn't happen often.

Probably the most expensive week was buying Panzer Dragoon Saga, Magic Knight Rayearth and Shining Force 3. I was a die hard Saturn fan and word on the street was that these would have very limited runs and would be some of the last Saturn titles to come out stateside.

Glad my 12 year old self scrimped and saved and dropped some coin for those.

 

[StevenK]

SF2 for the snes was £65 versus the usual £40 for a game in the UK. Worth it though.

 

[1up]

back in 1994 i spent "14 contos" 70 euros on fifa 95 for the mega drive.

good times...

 

[Karou]

3 copies of amakusa revenge from buyrite on playstation at around 70$ each.

 

[GohanX]

My most expensive for the time period was X-Men vs Street Fighter on Saturn for $80 at eb, not including the $20 import converter cartridge.

 

[groundzero]

Either ff6 or chrono trigger for snes. Both in the 80 dollar range. Babages or EB

 

[city41]

I got Metal Slug X on AES when it first came out. It was $250-300, don't exactly remember the price. I was in college and very poor, so I didn't end up owning it for long.

 

[wyo]

SF2 for the snes was £65 versus the usual £40 for a game in the UK. Worth it though.

Imports back then were pretty pricey. I had a US launch SNES and games were £60 a pop. I didn't buy any PAL consoles due to the 50hz squashed screen and slower games. All my Neo stuff in the 90s was used. I think the most I paid was 85 for Art of Fighting. I ditched my AES and went CD because I was not a rich kid.

 

[JohnnyFever]

I bought a Sega cd at release....does that count? It's still front loading strong today!

 

[snkjoe]

A sega saturn with 15 cib games for about $50 bucks and my 1st neo geo aes with 3 games $100 and I think a sega w/cd 2 wireless controllers and 5 games for about $15 multiple years lol

 

[GutsDozer]

Mega Man 1 Euro version.

 

[suicidekiller]

1 Euro version.

Doesn't sound too expensive

 

[unofficialitguy]

$90 for Zelda Majora's Mask (because it required the Expansion Pak to play it)

 

[Cousin_Itt]

I never bought any games before 2000, I wasn't even in high school yet.

 

[mookie3three]

Anyone remember Street Fighter 2 SCE on Mega Drive being $150AUD when it came out. I wanted that game so bad. Ended up getting it from Singapore airport for $60ish. To then find out it wouldn't fit in the cartridge slot. I was 10. Dad sent it off to Sega and they sent me an Australian cartridge for $15.

 

[zxtec]

$80 for Street Fighter II World Warrior for the SNES in the early '90s. I pre-ordered it from a magazine store ad to get it a day earlier. Sadly about 3 years later, I remember Babbage's had a bin full of SFIIs on clearance for $1.99.

 

[kris79]

Baseball Stars 2 EURO without the manual for $75. Still have it to this day

 

[joe8]

Anyone remember Street Fighter 2 SCE on Mega Drive being $150AUD when it came out. I wanted that game so bad. Ended up getting it from Singapore airport for $60ish. To then find out it wouldn't fit in the cartridge slot. I was 10. Dad sent it off to Sega and they sent me an Australian cartridge for $15.

Sega probably did that as a customer relations thing. So, including the $60 and the $15, it was still half the cost of buying it locally. Sega would have paid a lot less for the cartridge than they would sell it for, so it wouldn't have been a big loss for them.
Popular games like Street Fighter could easily be $150 ($149.99) on the Genesis and SNES (which was equivalent to about $300AUD in today's money). That was almost as much as the SNES console itself cost, sometime after launch ($199 for the basic console with one controller). Prices were too high for video games in Australia in those days. But before the internet, there was nothing we could do about it. At least with Street Fighter, it had a lot of replay value.

 

[kris79]

When I think about it, I picked up the Super Famicom release of Street Fighter 2 before the US release in the United States. It was $150 and that included the work for them to melt the plastic so that it would fit into the US system. One of the dumbest things I ever did when I was a kid.