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The checkout girl said "hold onto your receipt", so I did.
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That would be $58 in today's money if anyone is wondering...
ID: gu3hypdID: gu3ikrxThe amount of people who purchase/play games also increase immensely, so that is how they managed to keep the price somewhat stable. That and tacking a season pass and lootboxes to anything that moves.
ID: gu3ue2aExcept not really?
Retail games cost $60-$100 depending on the editions you buy. There’s also tons of useless shit they sell you in every game through MTX, plus paid DLC’s, expansions, new characters, etc.
Also, buying power for your average consumer has gone way down. Wages have been stagnant for how long? Before you could buy a game, then unlock everything by actually playing the game. Now if you wanted to do the same for most games you have to shell out hundreds if not thousands of extra dollars.
A good example of this was with Battlefront 2. One of the EA execs said it was reasonable to spend $5,000 on the game to unlock all the playable characters. In what world does your average consumer have $5,000 to drop on a single game, just to unlock characters that should have been playable to begin with?
The gaming industry has literally never been more profitable. It’s just a shame that the bulk of the money goes to the greedy people at the top.
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I guess the receipts was of better quality back then. When I file my travel invoices for a couple of months back, a lot of them are barely readable.
ID: gu3cw3bMost modern receipts are going to be thermal imprint. Eliminates the need for ink and fewer moving parts in the printer but thermal receipts will fade over time, especially when exposed to heat/light.
ID: gu3cjifThat was the first thing I thought of. How the heck does that receipt still look that good? Also never owned that game, but remember renting it from a local video game store. It was so odd, but fun. The pizza eating contest battles were awesome.
ID: gu3ngzjPrinters back then were mostly dot matrix, so the print head would stamp actual ink onto normal paper. These days they use thermal printers that use special paper that is heat sensitive (turn black when heated above a certain temperature). They are faster, cheaper, and make less noise, but the print will fade over time.
ID: gu3l0i5The receipt was probably in the box. I keep all of my game receipts in their boxes and they all look fine. Granted, I've only been doing this since the beginning of the PS3 era, but still. They look as new as the day they were printed.
ID: gu3pfhiit's an ink printer, not thermal paper. Basically a more advanced typewriter, with a ribbon and everything. Most receipts these days are printed on thermal paper, except maybe in some commercial kitchens that use printed tickets for the cooks (thermal paper tickets can get wrecked by the heat on the expo station, they go black and can't be read.) or possibly some smaller stores that don't have an advanced POS system.
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I'm surprised they haven't brought it back, made it suck, and ruin the nostalgia
ID: gu3ijdtYo Noid! Enter the Void
ID: gu3mmphI wouldn’t hate a politically incorrect Noid character versus Actual scumbag papa John fighting game
ID: gu3lgdbLook up the noid hostage situation in Atlanta. A guy kidnapped some domino’s workers because he thought the noid commercials were targeting him - because his last name was noid
ID: gu3miqbThe Noid is due for a gritty reboot.
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I grew up about 20 minutes from that mall. Been to that Kay bee many many times
ID: gu3d2npMe too, I miss that mall often.
ID: gu3d8b2It's sad seeing comments like these.. it's in mall heaven now boys
ID: gu3d5t0They turned the Toys R' Us across the street into an Ollie's, which I went to today.
ID: gu3dm32I haven't been there in YEARS, like maybe over 10 years, possibly longer. But I did pass by 2 years ago and saw Ollie's was there and couldn't think of what was there before. My faint memories have me living a few stores especially for their toys and video games. So that must've been it. Thank you!
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Pizza-eating contest is the best boss fight
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30 years later you discover she wrote her number on the back and it was a hint for you to call her
ID: gu3l6ayProbably she knew the game sucked and was trying to low-key do OP a favor by saving the receipt.
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That receipt outlasted the physical mall.
ID: gu3fq7tBy like 20 years.
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KB toys was so freaking awesome lol I really wish them and toys r us would open back up so my son could enjoy it like we all did
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Is that some sort of pizza demon?
ID: gu395v6Kenneth Lamar Noid is no demon.
ID: gu3em7lThat's one Noid I would definitely avoid.
ID: gu38pfmSounds about right
They're was a string of commercials with this character... Leading to this video game that only one person visit for 30 bucks
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I bet you need the receipt to get that free pizza coupon. I wonder what kind of pizza was the Noid's favorite?
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What a time to be alive that was.
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I remember renting this from blockbuster back in the day and not being able to understand the pizza battle thing.
Harder than any Souls game.
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What's the sales tax % now?
ID: gu3hk5r6%
ID: gu3pvcnNot bad, was thinking it would be higher
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I was 29 days old at the time of this purchase. Wild.
ID: gu3hg26I was almost 10, I saved up all my money to buy this game, and you know what, it sucked, you see back then there were no trailers or demos for games, you got 4 pictures on the back of the box, if you were lucky, or your friend already had the game, so trying anything brand new was a shot in the dark. And $30 to a 9-year-old was a lot to buy a game like this (like all my Christmas money), so you were stuck with playing it for a while, like it or not.
Edit: /end rant
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I don't know if this game was great or terrible, but I played the shit out of it when I was a kid and loved it.
ID: gu3i6ooI played the shit out of it too, only because I bought it and had to, haha.
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You’ll need that if you want to return it for store credit.
And a time machine. The receipt, and a time machine.
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That receipt is older than me
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Their holiday clearance sales were amazing. I learned later on, most toy stores needed those holiday sales to stay open.
That receipt is in incredible shape.
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avoid the noid
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I loved that game. Screw my stupid friend for borrowing it and not telling me he was moving and never returning it.
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I was a 9 month old baby
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One of the few nes games I had as a kid. I played the crap out of it.
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Only someone from the area would notice WHERE you bought the game. Golden Ring mall no longer exists. They tore it down and built a Wal-mart and Sam's Club in the footprint of the mall, various small stores and restaurants around it and a Home Depot across the parking lot. The parking structure was gone pretty early.
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That's the equivalent of about 60 bucks, inflation adjusted.
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5% tax!
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I miss going to the mall, then ALWAYS at the end of one of the mall's wings, you can see the blue store, trying to drag my mom towards it.
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Considering the whole point is to avoid him you have failed horrifically.
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As opposed to the “checkout boy”?
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I don't get the question, she was actually female.
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It's kind of mind-blowing that the retail cost of games has been stable for the past thirty years despite the vast increase in technology and dev costs.