Comparison of 1996 game and console prices to today.

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Shadow1980 said:

Also this. Check out this NES page from an old 1993 EB Games catalog:

$30 for Metroid, Punch-Out!!, and Zelda II years after release. $30 in 1993 is the equivalent of almost $50 in 2014 dollars. Metroid and Punch-Out!! cost $35 when they released early in the NES's life, putting them well over $70 in today's dollars, and Zelda II cost $45 when it first game out, which is over $80 in today's dollars.

Nintendo still does this most of the time and why owning a Nintendo console is often more expensive than a Sony one after you add up game catalog costs.