That was Virtua Racing, which I believe at the time was the first(or one of the first, been so long) 16MB carts. I remember just a few months later, seeing it everywhere in stores for $16.00, which is when I got it.

I buy a lot of older, classic releases and sometimes pay more for those. Finding complete, well cared for older releases is a hobby of late.

When I want a new release, 99% of the time I will wait until I come across it in one of the used shops around me. For instance I bought The Thing for PS2 for 28.99 in mint condition just last night. The only game in recent memory I paid MSRP (or close to it) was Morrowind for XBOX. I'm a sucker for RPGs.

Videogame collection costs - pretty complete list

$50 is a lot of money for me, as I'm currently living off student loans, so I'd say it's too expensive for me.

I have to be almost 100% sure I'll get a lot of play time out of a game before spending the cash.

Some said that it's a fair price as you spend more time with it than something like CD's or DVDs.

I'd have to disagree with that, especially on CDs.

First, CDs and DVDs are something I'll enjoy repeatedly for years, where as most games I only play once (or in the case of sports and fighting games, for year or so).

Second, for CDs the hourly enjoyment time is going to be higher for my favorite discs. I got 40 hours out of FFX (which is longer than most games). Take an hour long CD for example. I can listen to it over and over for years, and likely accrue a lot more than 40 hours of enjoyment out of it.

But regardless of whether I, or anyone else, think games are too expensive, the prices aren't likely to drop much further, so we'll just have to deal with it.