oddech_wymarlych_swiatow
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Thread is not about the cases when geam is rare and get ridiculous prices on ebay after years. Plz point out games that were significantly expensive on release date in your country.
My vote goes for N64 port of Turok which was 350 PLN (Poland of 1997)!!!! New PC games was around 150 PLN and console ones a little bit priced but this shit was ridiculous, especially considering that Saturn/PSX consoles was around 999 PLN per unit. Fortunately, few month ago PC Turok was released so Nintendo could fuck off with their overpriced bullshit (it was 3dfx exclusive though).
There were some strange cases with multiCD's games like Baldur's Gate when you paid around 30 PLN for single pirate CD so full game was in price of original one and no one gave a shit about illegal copies. As result, that painfull 150 PLN was inevitable.
From more memorable explamples, there was a weird game+graphics card bundle - some 3D Monster-like hardware with Virtua Fighter for fucking 1000 PLN in late '95 / early 96. OK, it was during the period when PC (for the last time) was inferior in 3D comparing to consoles but fortunately SEGA decided to make a port of VF compatibile with cheaper 3D cards like S3 Virge (best chip of all time).
And you?
My vote goes for N64 port of Turok which was 350 PLN (Poland of 1997)!!!! New PC games was around 150 PLN and console ones a little bit priced but this shit was ridiculous, especially considering that Saturn/PSX consoles was around 999 PLN per unit. Fortunately, few month ago PC Turok was released so Nintendo could fuck off with their overpriced bullshit (it was 3dfx exclusive though).
There were some strange cases with multiCD's games like Baldur's Gate when you paid around 30 PLN for single pirate CD so full game was in price of original one and no one gave a shit about illegal copies. As result, that painfull 150 PLN was inevitable.
From more memorable explamples, there was a weird game+graphics card bundle - some 3D Monster-like hardware with Virtua Fighter for fucking 1000 PLN in late '95 / early 96. OK, it was during the period when PC (for the last time) was inferior in 3D comparing to consoles but fortunately SEGA decided to make a port of VF compatibile with cheaper 3D cards like S3 Virge (best chip of all time).
And you?