Originally posted by: starkiller

Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Geez. 50 Pounds? For an NES game? Holy crap. There is no way I'd pay $100 or more for a single video game.

I imagine the pound didn't have the same value that it has today.

I think it's always been a bit stronger than the dollar (at least in my lifetime), but it's irrelevant - to an English person, 50 pounds is 50 pounds, not 100 dollars. What I mean by that is, it wouldn't take me as long to earn 50 pounds as it would for an american to earn 100 bucks. in the mind of a English person, 50 pounds is probably of roughly the same value as 50 bucks is to an american. It's only when you travel or start buying from american websites etc and compare exchange rates that this sort of stuff comes into play. Make sense?

An example - I now live in America. I see a game selling for 50 dollars and I think to myself 'shit, that game costs 50 bucks!! That would take me X hours to earn'. I don't think 'hey, that game's only 25 pounds - sweet'.

But whatever the case, 50 pounds in the late 80s was a shitload of money, especially to a kid, and to me today it's still a lot of money. Granted, a video game can give you hours, days, weeks, even months of entertainment, so maybe it's not so bad.