In Spain tons of people bought either NES Chinese clones (even in the early PSX era in ~1997) because they were dirt cheap. Also, N in 1 cartridges were everywhere, both for the NES and the GB.
Mine came with Batman:Tas, FFIII (Secret of mana for GB), Goal! and Metroid II among others. I loved it.
Maybe the original ones where Pokémon, SML 1 and 2, Donkey Kong and a few more (the ML games were Nintendo Classics and sold for very cheap).
In the GBC era most people got originals, but even in these times tons of bootleg X in 1 games were sold too. Also, I was very lucky to buy the Cannon Fodder cartridge for 5 EUR (~$5 in 2002, second hand) for the GBC as it condensed the whole Amiga/PC game with nearly all the graphic quality.
And with Metal Gear:Ghost Babel for the GBC I didn't miss Metal Gear for the PSX at all.
>> In Spain tons of people bought either NES Chinese clones (even in the early PSX era in ~1997) because they were dirt cheap.
I'll let you know a secret. I bought my console in 1997! :)
1997 was maybe the year of peak hyperinflation in Romania, I've checked my parent's paychecks from the period and while both of them were employed in white collar (better paying) jobs, both their income converted in today's money didn't make $200. Not euro, dollars, although recently that seems to catch in parity. A monthly income for salaried parents of €150, taking care besides them and the household of me and my two brothers, so a family of 5. Therefore "dirt cheap" didn't apply here and I guess, I was fortunate for being to afford even such a console.
On a side note, around that period, my younger brother went with a school exchange in Austria. Thought of a lunch at Mcdonald's as the most luxurious thing one could experience. Today I'm paying some €10 for such a lunch and don't think about it but imagine you'd be paying 6.67% of your net income for a lunch (how much it cost relative to my parent's income in 1997). That'd be €267 in today's money for me, fuck, I ain't going even to a restaurant and paying that, I'm not a millionaire!
Maybe the original ones where Pokémon, SML 1 and 2, Donkey Kong and a few more (the ML games were Nintendo Classics and sold for very cheap). In the GBC era most people got originals, but even in these times tons of bootleg X in 1 games were sold too. Also, I was very lucky to buy the Cannon Fodder cartridge for 5 EUR (~$5 in 2002, second hand) for the GBC as it condensed the whole Amiga/PC game with nearly all the graphic quality. And with Metal Gear:Ghost Babel for the GBC I didn't miss Metal Gear for the PSX at all.
I'll let you know a secret. I bought my console in 1997! :)
1997 was maybe the year of peak hyperinflation in Romania, I've checked my parent's paychecks from the period and while both of them were employed in white collar (better paying) jobs, both their income converted in today's money didn't make $200. Not euro, dollars, although recently that seems to catch in parity. A monthly income for salaried parents of €150, taking care besides them and the household of me and my two brothers, so a family of 5. Therefore "dirt cheap" didn't apply here and I guess, I was fortunate for being to afford even such a console.
On a side note, around that period, my younger brother went with a school exchange in Austria. Thought of a lunch at Mcdonald's as the most luxurious thing one could experience. Today I'm paying some €10 for such a lunch and don't think about it but imagine you'd be paying 6.67% of your net income for a lunch (how much it cost relative to my parent's income in 1997). That'd be €267 in today's money for me, fuck, I ain't going even to a restaurant and paying that, I'm not a millionaire!