because people click on the articles?

People who go to movies -- which, okay, fair.

I actually don’t mind the trailers themselves. It is the now additional product commercials and ads about the theaters themselves that tick me off, often stretching that wait to half an hour.

I mean, everyone knows it’s Fonebone

I ascribe every mistake in an AV Club article to the writer having to put their phone down when some frikken *tourist* comes in an asks for ‘a coffee’, necessitating the writer rolling their eyes and walking them through the coffee *experience*.

There were a lot of problems with those terrible, annoying ads I was forced to watch for an experience I had already purchased and therefore didn’t need to be sold. But, I found it particularly vexing that Nicole Kidman (or is it Keidbaum?) was extolling the virtues of seeing movies together and yet was the only one…

Fun fact: according to Linkedin, Schimkowitz has a bachelors in English from Rutgers and was in the Honors English program.

stadia is not windows based and while we’ll probably see few of these on steam it’s not just pushing a button

Desura was the indie Steam basically, yeah.  No one knows what happened to Desura, it just one day went offline with no warning.  The gamestop thing was what happened with the Stardock gaming store.

I have only the barest memory of Desura. Weren’t they positioned as kind of an indie version of Steam?

About 15 years ago I was going through an old childhood desk to clean up for the first time ever and I found a magazine just like the above that had N64 games on it. The prices looked were scattered all over the place (I specifically remember Star Wars Racer costing $56.99 because it was a weird number) and it is…

70$ well spent I‘d say.

It was okay when it was my parents’ wallet.

The only one of those games I paid $70 for was GoldenEye; every store in town was sold out for weeks after launch and Sears, which stuck to MSRP and didn’t attempt to be competitive in their pricing, got their restock before anybody else.

And adjusted for inflation, those games were significantly more expensive than $70 games today.

Thanks for posting this. Games today are actually cheaper than they have ever been, by and large (considering inflation, games used to be more expensive)

Who’s in their right mind was paying $70 for NBA Hangtime in 1995?

Admittedly those are from individual store catalogues and not standard. If memory serves, Sears, Toys R Us, and other higher end retailers had generally higher prices, and games that had special hardware like MMX2-3 or Yoshi’s Island were more expensive as well, but were generally exceptions.

I was working in video game retail when CD based games became a thing and the price point going down to $49.99 was a selling point. The idea was that cartridges were what made games cost so much. 

Yeah, but look at how cheap the consoles were! I remember saving up my allowance to get the N64.