Lucky Americans. Australian games are $100. More for some. Arkham Asylum was like $120. It's horrible. Our dollar is worth 94 American cents so we pay double.

Well Mr. High and Mighty, if we didn't pay for those games you'd be lucky to be stuck playing crappy Facebook flash games because there would be no gaming industry.

See, here's the hting:

I wasn't ripped off for any game I ever bought. I knew what I was paying, and was fine with it. Nobody who enters into that exchange (currency for goods) knowing the price they pay is ever ripped off.

I'm not high and mighty. I just know when i'm being ripped off. I love many NES games. Hell my favorite series started on the NES. But I would not pay 60 bucks for it.

No you are because you are talking out of your ass. You know why games costs were so high for NES, SNES, and Genesis games? Cartridges. Developers were playing $20 to $30 per cartridge, versus $1 or less they pay for optical media. Hence the $60, $70, and some times even higher priced games. Games like Virtua Racing for Genesis had an expensive DSP, the SVP chip, that was added into the cost as well.  Sure Nintendo and Sega could charge $50 for cartridge games but they didn't have to pay the licensing fees that third party developers had to. Yup on top of the high cartridge costs, 3rd party had to play a licensing fee. So you have cartridge costs and licensing fees plus the retailer has to get their cut. License fees and media cost are much cheaper now than they were then. Games were justifiably more expensive during the cartridge era.

In regards to the ongoing argument: Don't forget that you also have to adjust for inflation. Games that cost $60 today are actually cheaper than games that cost $60 back in the early 90's. That doesn't excuse developers from making 5-hour games with little replay value, though...

Justifiiably over priced.

I payed 70.00 for FF3(FFVI) much to the chagrin of my wife.

And it was worth it, just like Ocarina of Time was worth it back in the day (I think that retailed for 60 in the US but my memory is fuzzy)

Ah yes, the one line response. An attempt to refute an argument with little to no facts. I've dismissed this claim.

@Mr. Fister

You bring up a couple of good points. I agree with them both.