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Retro Price Ceiling
LK4O4 \| 4:18 PM on 07.17.2009	4 comments

Posted by: Ryan

For anyone who hasn't yet bought Chrono Trigger, it's now only $20 at GameStop and on Amazon! Once I heard that, I immediately went out and bought it.

No matter how many people say that Chrono Trigger is the best RPG ever, I still felt weird about paying $40 for it. I'm a Wii owner, and I like to keep things generally legal*, so I buy most of my SNES games for $8. I never had a SNES growing up, and through the Virtual Console, I've been able to play Super Metroid, ActRaiser, and Secret of Mana for the first time, all for only $8 each.

If Chrono Trigger were released on Virtual Console, it too would be an $8 game. Even with the ability to play it on my DS, a box, and a nice color manual, I still feel like I wouldn't pay more than $25 for it.

On the Mega Man 9 episode of RetroforceGO!, the crew were asked if they would pay full price for Mega Man 9, and the universal answer was "no," even though everyone on the show felt hypocritical for saying so. Mega Man 9 might have been my favorite game of 2008, but with Mega Man 2 being released just before at only $5, it made sense to put Mega Man 9 beside it for $10. (Technically, it's $16 for me, since I would whole-heartedly recommend buying Endless Mode, Superhero Mode, and the Special Stage.)

I feel like there's some kind of retro price ceiling. Maybe I've been conditioned to playing retro games for free on emulators, so now I don't want to pay a large price for them. Maybe it's just because I find myself shorter on money these days. Whatever the reason, I have a difficult time buying retro games at a full price. I'm sure hardcore Square Enix fans would have picked it up at full price, but the new $20 price was enough to persuade me to buy it. If you've been holding out, I suggest you take this opportunity to buy it as well.

And a few months from now when Dragon Quest V drops down to $20, I'll be there too.

* With two exceptions: I hearby give everyone permission to pirate Earthbound and Mother 3 without guilt. (Mother 3 has a free fan translation you can download!)
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4 comments | showing # 1 to 4

Tristero

Glad to see you make the exception for the Mother series. I own physical copies of all those games, so a translated ROM doesn't bother me in the slightest. The second they make any of the games available for me to purchase in English again, I'll be buying several copies.

Monodi

I can't believe I spent 40 bucks on Chrono Triiger. It's a great game, yeah, but holy shit 40 bucks.

smasher imp

Chrono Trigger freakin' rocks, but its great to finally see a price drop.

Deathofthedead

I love Chrono Trigger, easily one of my top five favorites of all time, but the DS version bothered me. I think it was the re-done translation: some lines and names were so ingrained in my memory that it really shook me to see them changed.

Anyway, good find, and well worth owning at that price, translation issues notwithstanding.

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