Back to 1996 — Fascinating. $2400 Macintosh Computer, You Don’t Know Jack game, Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey game (poor Wishbone just.. can’t be alive), Super SF:II on PC, Popular CDs, Macarena CD and video, flip cell phones, $129 16MB Ram, Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick… it’s all there:
And we used to just throw these ads in the trash. Solid internet gold now! Saw these linked and discussed on SA Forums and Reddit
‘I always hate those stupid speaker-on-monitor setups.’
$379 for an Apple inkjet printer?
Memory 15 years ago was 77381% more expensive than it is now.
A grand back then is around $1450 now.
I feel better paying ~$60 for PC games after seeing this. We’ve come such a long way.
Remember when they made you enter a word from a page of the instruction manual as copyright protection?
At least appliances were cheaper then.
Picture in picture is still really cool to me.
What I wouldn’t give to be back in 1996. I’M OLD!
Also saw this
Full Throttle in this comic… video game memories make us all kindred spirits. Vigilant 8 ♪ hoo hoo ♫
