• Refurbished Refurbisher
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    11 months ago

    Cartridges cost a lot more to produce than cheap, plastic discs or modern, SD card-esque flash storage.

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      Games in 1994 cost on average $60. That’s about $128 today. The cost of production of those games was at most a few dollars more in materials. Not nearly enough to explain the price difference. Games were simply more expensive then than they are now.