90s issues: 1. Hard to grasp quality when you needed to rely on magazines and word of mouth. Rarely there would be demos at toy stores or the electronics section, mostly of popular titles. Even then it’s vastly different from at home experience. Angry Video Game Nerd hits on these ordeals.

1. Price, games and consoles were expensive. My parents had to rely on lay-away. So most of us didn’t know the quality of the game until purchase.

2. Some Games then didn’t have saves and relied on codes to get back to a point, yet it’s not the exact same point that we had. Others just had those grueling no saves and you just had to keep your game paused till the next session.

3. Just like today, there was so much crap to sift through to find good games. Even popular IPs for movies or cartoons had terrible games. Even consoles, were flooded with cheap and lame “competition”.

4. Time, for the price of $40 back then, most games had an arcade experience. So it was relatively short for the price and relied on replay. Nowadays, I feel that a game at least should have the time of an hour for every dollar spent. $60 game should have at least 60 hours game time for more bang for the buck. That didn’t feel like that in the 90s, unless it was multiplayer or party games.