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Title: ToysRUs 1996/1999 Video Game print ads Post by: Leynos on March 08, 2014, 05:13:03 PM I still have these after all these years and for me and maybe others find it a little interesting to see them. You may even find a game or 2 that never released asking you to pre order. For the Younger crowd may find a few things you never heard of.
I can't post the images in full to will post a link to an album. http://imgur.com/a/DjtUV Title: Re: ToysRUs 1996/1999 Video Game print ads Post by: nupoile on March 08, 2014, 05:46:35 PM Neat
Title: Re: ToysRUs 1996/1999 Video Game print ads Post by: monkees19 on March 08, 2014, 10:17:18 PM That's nuts. People forget that games were $60 back in the day too. But thwey were kids then and don't remember or didn't now.
Title: Re: ToysRUs 1996/1999 Video Game print ads Post by: Izret101 on March 08, 2014, 11:06:56 PM Games got much higher than 60$s back in the day.
I know there were a fair number in the 70-90 range and didn't one of the street fighters hit like 109 or 119? What really struck me was the vast price difference between the SNES/Genny/PSX games. But what hit me before that was seeing the 3 of them lumped together. In my childhood they had so much more clearly defined life cycles. Title: Re: ToysRUs 1996/1999 Video Game print ads Post by: blcklblskt on March 09, 2014, 04:10:53 PM Very cool. It's also pretty funny to see how incredibly far technology has come. The PlayStation memory card said it has 112K of RAM for $25.
Title: Re: ToysRUs 1996/1999 Video Game print ads Post by: The Metamorphosing Leon on March 10, 2014, 08:27:19 AM I like how in that ad for the Game Boy the tetris game actually looks like someone was playing it. Usually it would be like someone who lost tetris with a bunch of random sprite characters that didn't belong there.
Title: Re: ToysRUs 1996/1999 Video Game print ads Post by: Addicted on March 10, 2014, 08:57:47 AM Games got much higher than 60$s back in the day. I know there were a fair number in the 70-90 range and didn't one of the street fighters hit like 109 or 119? What really struck me was the vast price difference between the SNES/Genny/PSX games. But what hit me before that was seeing the 3 of them lumped together. In my childhood they had so much more clearly defined life cycles. @Izret101: I remember Street Fighter 2 as $80 upon release but 1UP has a comparison chart: http://www.1up.com/news/90s-game-price-comparison-charticle Title: Re: ToysRUs 1996/1999 Video Game print ads Post by: h1ghw1nd on April 14, 2014, 11:53:13 AM I remember pointing to ads just like that and begging my parents for a psx
Title: Re: ToysRUs 1996/1999 Video Game print ads Post by: Shadow Kisuragi on April 14, 2014, 12:40:32 PM I'd still pay $60 for Metroid II. Fantastic game.
Title: Re: ToysRUs 1996/1999 Video Game print ads Post by: KidA on April 17, 2014, 01:04:44 PM Wow, brings back memories of walking into ToysRus with my brothers when I was six and buying a Genesis. First memory I have of being amazed at the sheer number of games surrounding me.
Title: Re: ToysRUs 1996/1999 Video Game print ads Post by: RetroExplorer on May 22, 2014, 01:20:11 AM I think all of these ads were destroyed by kids reading them 1000 times and circling all the stuff they wanted. :drool:
Good deal on that Lunar! I'll be honest, I've never even heard of "Sonic Xtreme". Amazing it made as far as a print ad before it was canceled... |