things that have (or haven't) increased in price a lot from when you were younger

[Svnla]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned healthcare.

You don't have to work very long to notice the outrageous increases that have been going on.

Yes, I did. Post #30.

In the 16-bit days, a 3rd-party title was $75-$80 MSRP. I recently found an old flier with Earthworm Jim advertised for $75. Cartridges were EXPENSIVE. I'd be really pissed if I took a chance on a game and it sucked. ....

You remind that I paid over $75 for the NES Romance Of The Three Kingdoms. It was a lot of money for a kid like me back then and the game sucked balls, big time. That's one of the worse game I ever played.

 

[angminas]

Pop? Are we living in the 1950's?

Making fun of someone saying pop? Are we in kindergarten?

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

A better question is what could double in price, and you would still pay for it?

I rmemeber Kraft Mac&Cheese used to be as cheap as hell. Now it is almost $1/box I think.

 

[Ben90]

People need to stop bitching about gasoline.

 

[andylawcc]

$1 dollar burger is still $1 dollar burger. To this day, years after college, I still indulge by stuffing myself with three Carl's Jr's spicy chicken sandwich.

 

[RedRooster]

I remember riding 4 hours in the back of the car, to the big city, to buy Hardball 3 or 4 for Sega Genesis. $108! My dad was pissed.
Games aren't even close to that nowadays. Video games are actually becoming MORE affordable.

 

[zinfamous]

Wow, this could be an interesting thread. Let me try to think back to when I was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s.

When I was a kid, Star Wars figures were around $3 each -- sometimes you could get them a little under and sometimes, a little higher. What do they run for now? $6 each?

I seem to recall video games were around $25 to $30 for new games on the Atari 2600 or Commodore 64. Now they're $60 new and I wonder if they'll top $70 when we hit next gen.

I don't think milk and bread have gone up drastically since then, have they?

I don't remember Atari or commodore prices, but brand new NES games were always $50--on top of that, they didn't hit the bargain bin as frequently, or as soon after release as most games these days.

On average, I'd say video game prices have actually dropped substantially (from NES days). even for a $60 new releases, a lot of those will fall down a few months after release.

 

[zinfamous]

I remember riding 4 hours in the back of the car, to the big city, to buy Hardball 3 or 4 for Sega Genesis. $108! My dad was pissed.
Games aren't even close to that nowadays. Video games are actually becoming MORE affordable.

yeah. I remember my brother and I just had to have Street Fighter II ASAP for SNES--meaning, the Famicon release some 4 or 5 months before US release. which means we had to buy that adapter for $30-40?, then the famicom cartridge for 80$

lol. and guess where we got it? the now-infamous Buy-Rite video games.



http://www.gamespot.com/news/6123802/buy-rite-to-wrong-no-more-chain-shuttered

lol, those guys were such epic douches. buy your previous gen console and 20 or games for like 15 bucks.
then sell you stupid import games for $70 or $90.

hmm, it says they were online and started in 95? hogwash. they did have a B&M shop at one of the weekend flea markets, then later on the opposite side of town. they were certainly operating prior to 95, maybe not the online store, though.

 

[zinfamous]

Gas: when i started driving it was $.75 a gallon stayed pretty low for years. I just filled up at $4.09 a gallon
pop: used to get a 20 oz pop for $.75 and a can for $.30 now a 20oz is $1.59 and a can is a buck
candy: used to get a candy bar for $.33 now its $1
milk: i remember getting a gallon of milk for $2 now its $3.21 or so

are you sure they were 20oz sodas? that is relatively new thing.

it always used to be 16oz max (excluding the 2 liter bottles), but I think 8-12oz was standard. the earliest bottles were 8oz, I believe.

 

[zinfamous]

Tops baseballs cards in the early 80s were 25cents a pack. Now they are upwards of $5 everytime i see them at the store. Dont want to do that math but that is HUGE increase.

true, you also get 1/2 the cards now, right?

the funny thing about the ridiculous collectible card industry is that nothing today is or ever will be collectible. The only cards that are worth something are very old, and only because they were considered trash back in the day--most of them tossed away, destroyed, ruined by the gum or tobacco that was packed with them.

now, you get thousands of printings of each card, from a dozen or so different companies. How anyone can think this is any kind of investment is beyond me...