The Toys R Us Holiday Video Game catalog from 1996
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Lord jesus my blood pressure shot up......
I've had everything but the saturn and just looking at them prices today it would be nothing to have a 1000 worth of cartridges even the wack games but a lot of us were kids and we enjoyed what we had cause our people worked hard for that shit and I enjoyed it,hour and hours of playing video games;It's that one thing we all might have in common if nothing else.
I even had one of those tamagachi shits it always died and the wwf video game watch.....
I've had everything but the saturn and just looking at them prices today it would be nothing to have a 1000 worth of cartridges even the wack games but a lot of us were kids and we enjoyed what we had cause our people worked hard for that shit and I enjoyed it,hour and hours of playing video games;It's that one thing we all might have in common if nothing else.
I even had one of those tamagachi shits it always died and the wwf video game watch.....
One of my best memories from around 1991 or 1992. Mom saying to us one fall season to think about what we wanted for Christmas. We were weighing the Super Nintendo / Sega Genesis. One or the other. We settled on the Genesis as we knew a number of our friends would be buying the SNES and a shitload of games anyway. If we ever wanted to play any of them, we'd do so visiting their homes or just trading consoles at any time in the future. Basically buy the Genesis - play the shit out of our own stuff, and then trade off and play their SNES stuff that was already bought and paid for.
At the end of opening gifts that Christmas we open a game, but don't yet have the console.
We're like - "Thanks, but we don't have the console yet ...(?)"
Mom - "Have you looked downstairs?"
We sprinted downstairs and she'd already set everything up the night before. We had a little rec' room at the childhood home where we kept our stereo, free weights, gaming.
At the end of opening gifts that Christmas we open a game, but don't yet have the console.
We're like - "Thanks, but we don't have the console yet ...(?)"
Mom - "Have you looked downstairs?"
We sprinted downstairs and she'd already set everything up the night before. We had a little rec' room at the childhood home where we kept our stereo, free weights, gaming.
That X-mas, I got an N64, Mario 64, & Wave Racer 64. My cousin got a Sega Saturn, NBA Jam, & Knights. We started off playing NBA Jam and he talked so much shit about me getting the 'baby' gaming console.
Hindsight is always 20/20 tho ....
Sega Saturn
How did that one work out homie? By the time Golden Eye dropped, that Sega Saturn was somewhere collecting dust.
Hindsight is always 20/20 tho ....
Sega Saturn
How did that one work out homie? By the time Golden Eye dropped, that Sega Saturn was somewhere collecting dust.
Hindsight is always 20/20 tho ....
Sega Saturn
How did that one work out homie? By the time Golden Eye dropped, that Sega Saturn was somewhere collecting dust.
inflation matters
Use to play Golden Eye one one shot one killThat X-mas, I got an N64, Mario 64, & Wave Racer 64. My cousin got a Sega Saturn, NBA Jam, & Knights. We started off playing NBA Jam and he talked so much shit about me getting the 'baby' gaming console.
Hindsight is always 20/20 tho ....
Sega Saturn
How did that one work out homie? By the time Golden Eye dropped, that Sega Saturn was somewhere collecting dust.
At the end of each month in 8th grade our teachers would let us setup party stations in each room. The math teacher always did movies and would rent whatever we voted for. Like whatever, fuck a rating
The science teacher would let us setup game stations in her room. We would have a Playstation on one tv with 1v1 Tekken or Street Fighter. And a N64 with Goldeneye on the other tv. 4 Controllers always going around. Winner stay on, losers pass the sticks to the left.
Good times
Cartridges were always expensive. Since nintendo days they was like $35/$40
96 I remember my best friend would always get whatever game he was getting and open it early and come to my house. By then I knew the Nintendo 64 was in the closet waiting for Christmas and my mother let us open it and we played Mario and Wrestling until like 11 when he left to go put his game back under the tree. Good times.
Great thread
1996 was a good year.
One generation slowly on it's way out, another one on it's way in and it's one of the most monumental changes in gaming history.
No multi-gen game either apart from sports believe me Madden 97 on SNES and Genesis is not the same as Madden 97 (or Madden 64) on the PS1/Sat/N64
1996 was a good year.
One generation slowly on it's way out, another one on it's way in and it's one of the most monumental changes in gaming history.
No multi-gen game either apart from sports believe me Madden 97 on SNES and Genesis is not the same as Madden 97 (or Madden 64) on the PS1/Sat/N64
I need a Consumers catalog
Never copped anything from toys r us… would find cheaper deals at mom and pop shops… hell I remember getting nba live a week b4 major retailers were releasing it.. who knows how some of these places were getting it but they were cheaper and that’s all that matters..plus it was no tax
I was in my first semester of college when the n64 came out i bought it in 97 along with one or two games.mario 64 and nba hangtime. That thing costed 400 dollars but igurss it was worth the 5 years i glt out of it until i copped the ps2.
Whats crazy is that you can buy new consoles and games TODAY for those prices. So its safe to say that the gaming industry is the only one that inflation didnt really touch. In the case of games, it got better cause with Gamepass, you get a lot of these games for free like COD, Madden, MLB, etc
Back in the day, as a youngsta you had to save like a muthafucka to afford those shits. Today, you can either grab you a PS5 or skip groceries for a month. Not really much grindin, just make a few cuts/sacrifices.
Back in the day, as a youngsta you had to save like a muthafucka to afford those shits. Today, you can either grab you a PS5 or skip groceries for a month. Not really much grindin, just make a few cuts/sacrifices.
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