>>10945797I learned the value of a dollar in the 80s, where i earned money every week through chores and had to buy my own shit, instead of crying to my mom and dad that i want X.
i learned to save, because i started paying attention to how much shit actually cost.
Also, buying TV series on tape was a rip off. Like not even a movie's worth of tv episodes. I wouldn't even fucking RENT that shit.
Besides, most TV shows were syndicated to hell and back in the 80s and 90s. Some channel was always showing pretty much any popular TV show from the 50s-90s at any given time and I actually bought blank tapes to shit that aired while i was at school or somewhere else. VCRs with built in tuners were a godscend, since I could be watching the Simpsons episode 25 from season 5 the 553rd time on my local broadcasting tv station while the VCR was recording Babylon 5 on TNT.
Hell, most of the time i let stuff just get recorded, because i was too busy playing with my XMen figures and i would let the Simpsons run on the background, because Babylon 5 was something i wanted to give my full attention to watch. Nowadays I i don't let anything but music run in the background and usually only with work or fucking around on 4chan. Everything else i give my full attention to.
Also also, you must have been looking at the worst NES games for them to be $20. I once looked through a wholesaler catalogue (a retro printer paper, phonebook sized wonder) in the 80s and found out retailers were ordering games like Jackal for $30 or thereabout. Any game worth a damn was $30+.
