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Pricing is regressing to its roots.
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I never got an NES as a kid, but I did get a Game Boy, and eventually a SNES years after it launched.
I remember a time circa 1993 or so where KB Toys was selling the new top-loader NES with the nice SNES-style controllers for $50. Fifty dollars! And a bunch of NES games were $10 new, including Metroid and Super Mario Bros 3 (probably the two NES games I wanted the most). I begged my mom to get 'em for me, but she didn't because she didn't realize what a deal it was.
It worked out though because like 5 months later I finally got a SNES with Super Mario World and Super Metroid, which is basically the super version of what I tried to get at KB.
Still though, every so often I remember the top-loader NES and the new NES games at KB and wish I'd gotten one. Those top-loaders are so pricey now, and their rounded controllers are the only way I can play NES games on actual hardware and enjoy it. Hate the original controllers.