{"id":171,"date":"2022-05-17T09:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/we-need-a-modern-version-of-segas-mega-games-compilations\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:14:58","slug":"we-need-a-modern-version-of-segas-mega-games-compilations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/game-news\/we-need-a-modern-version-of-segas-mega-games-compilations\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need A Modern Version Of SEGA’s Mega Games Compilations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Video games are expensive – but then, for console users at least, it\u2019s always been so. It wasn\u2019t unusual to see new Mega Drive and Super Nintendo releases in the early 1990s retailing for over \u00a350, with some going as high as \u00a370; and even before that you\u2019d be lucky to get much change from swapping a couple of twenties for an 8-bit Master System or NES cart. The switch to disc-based games did bring prices down somewhat in the mid-1990s, as the PlayStation took on the Saturn and came out on top – but the current generation of PS5 and Xbox Series X has put us firmly back at that \u00a360-70 price point for the latest titles.<\/p>\n

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Video games are expensive – but then, for console users at least, it\u2019s always been so. It wasn\u2019t unusual to see new Mega Drive and Super Nintendo releases in the early 1990s retailing for over \u00a350, with some going as high as \u00a370; and even before that you\u2019d be lucky to get much change from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}