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- Jan 27, 2020
It varied. There were definitely tiers of games, between $49 and $59 on the high end, $25 or so mid and $8 to $15 shovel ware. As games got older they got put in the mid shelf and then discount bins, or a single release got marked down when a double pack with the first and second games came out.I wasn't old enough to buy games back in those times but I thought around the N64 and SNES era, they were standardized at 50/each with some games being ridiculous like Earthbound being 80 or some shit.
It wasn't cut and dry and popular/hard to find games that didn't get extra pressings were priced at whatever the vendor felt like. I remember MGS and FF7 being notoriously hard to find and you paid $80 for them when you did. Some JRPGS were over $100 because they were so rare.