So you want the original Bond, a virulently racist serial rapist? I’m not joking or overstating on either point - that’s exactly who Bond is in Fleming’s books (even in some of the earlier movies - Goldfinger, for example).

I think the point is more that it suggests the rumour is probably bollocks. The original Bond books just aren’t particularly good, they’re ultra-racist and deeply misogynist (including condoning rape, on multiple occasions, IIRC), and they don’t have any great or original ideas.

Yeah exactly - this is pretty similar to the Pagan Min one - it’s not an ending many, if any people are likely to even consider could exist, nor see, even by accident.

Dude, you’ve moved the goalposts repeatedly. You claimed it was common in the “late ‘80s” and haven’t given any examples from before 1995.

So this is fascinating because you’ve only been able to find examples from 1995 and 1996, not earlier.

So nothing until 1995? The games you’re talking about are all 1995 or later. By which time the Genesis was basically done, because the PSX had arrived.

I assume they were lying, because this was used this as a justification for their pricing on multiple occasions.

Sure, some very poor people had them even, but there was a strong link between owning a SNES and being wealthier, because it was by far the most expensive console to buy, to buy add-ons for, and to buy games for. It wasn’t even particularly close.

“And games were absolutely selling in a million copies by the 90s”

Can you name some of those Genesis games which you’re claiming went for $60 or $70? Because they sure didn’t go for the equivalent of that in the UK.

“It almost seems like a kind of “soft” racism to always associate the two, an expansion of the “Magical Native American” trope, but there’s no reason the same wouldn’t apply if they were exploring ruins of a white culture.”

“As much as my initial thought was “Fuck that greedy bastard” he is not wrong.”

You are just old. I’m 45, and being real, there are vastly more good games now than there were at any earlier time in my life.

The only games which were $60+ in the later 1980s and early-mid 1990s were SNES games. And it’s no accident that it tended to be the wealthier kids who had SNESes.

What does “substantial” mean? With a physical copy, 50% straight-up went to the retailer, so your entire revenue was dependent on how much you could squeeze out of the other 50%, and very often about a third to half of that was taken up by manufacturing, shipping, and distribution costs.

The costs of those overheads are pathetically tiny compared to the costs of manufacturing and distributing physical games, let alone the costs the stores themselves had.

Which Genesis games, EXACTLY, were over $60? I can’t think of a single one.

Your entire argument is based on NES and SNES games, and ignoring that all the other consoles, PCs, Atari ST/Amiga, Commodore 64 and so on existed and indeed were the vast majority of games sold.

“That said, I assume the cost per unit would scale down based on quantity so a million cartridges probably cost $1 each.”

“amount of units sold has increased like crazy”