Same reason as the Reddy Brek kid.

Radiation poisoning.

I bought some Reddy Brek as a treat last week. Haven't tried it yet.

Edit: I probably should've gone for rusks.

Edit 2: turns out it's not called Reddy Brek!!

DrewMerson wrote:

At least i now know where Moot’s gamer tag came from.

Same, I do remember that ad tho, didn't remember the line.

How much was that weird tiny Wii?

It falls to me to post the obligatory Barbarian ad:



Weirdly enough they even apparently did a homo-erotic one, minus Maria Whittaker:

Is that Wolf from Gladiators?

retroking1981 wrote:

GCN went to £80 but I'm not sure PS2 or Xbox ever hit that magic mark.

I got my OGbox for £99.99, but that was a special for the first day of a new GAME. 

But yeah, I do miss those days. I'd have bought a PS4 by now if they'd dropped below 100.

Blue Swirl wrote:

retroking1981 wrote:

GCN went to £80 but I'm not sure PS2 or Xbox ever hit that magic mark.

I got my OGbox for £99.99, but that was a special for the first day of a new GAME. 

But yeah, I do miss those days. I'd have bought a PS4 by now if they'd dropped below 100.

Yeah, same for me with XBox One.

These days the price seems to stay the same, just becoming slightly better value with newer skus/bundles until eventually being replaced by the next gen.

Inflation.

A "big" 2600 game in 1982 was £30.  That's >£100 now.  God bless my parents - who were not well off - who bought me Defender one Christmas. 

I was only able to own a 2600 because of £100 (>£300 now) I was given out of an endowment that matured when I was 16.  Got Combat with it and Asteroids was free too with a special promo offer.

I played that game to death (as I did with Asteroids too which was a far superior port but Defender despite its many tech shortcomings was still very playable) - would have got 100s of hours out of it but still. Mad.

I spent years grifting for pocket money boosters.  Second hand carts were often reasonably priced back then though.

I used to pick stuff up from car boot sales back in the day, used to get some bargains.

Sonic and Knuckles boxed like new for a tenner not long after release.
A Saturn with 10 games for £30 around 1999-2001.
Cart only MD games for a quid or two once the PS1 was out.

I Was able to sign on while I did my A levels as I was only doing 2. So I had a few quid between that and casual labour. First cart I bought was an Activision one - they had a 2nd string line of games that were cheaper but better than the 2nd string Atari games in the main.

It was Fishing Derby - read the review in Computer & Video Games and it reviewed well. And it was actually a damn fine little game. Even my Dad liked it - mainly because he was a crane driver and the way the line moved about reminded him of it.   Had a decent vs CPU mode and the 2P mode was good craic.

I remember admiring the little effect on the water surface that made it look 3D the way it went around the posts the anglers sat on.    The player on the left has the advantage because the 6pt fish is higher up on his side. We used to swap sides during a session.  Simpler times.