i buy two games per year for $100 tops but more like $50 after shipping and taxes. my personal and local public library give me plenty to do.

In Germany you could buy most games for 12.95DM in the 90s/10€ in the 2000s, if you were willing to wait a year after the initial release. And unless you had enough money to buy the newest PC, you often had to resort to last year's games anyway. As a comparison, I got 20DM for mowing my neighbours lawn.

These re-releases came with just a jewel case and no box, the manual was a PDF on the disk but on the other hand they often had some bugs fixed since the first release.

i agree with you in a way, its true that in the 2000’s i could only buy about a game a year also because you weren’t switching consoles as frequently as we do. I could wish for a game from Xbox and i would never play it because the console i had at home was playstation. Nowadays that is leveled, but this goes hand in hand with the things related to the amount of games we have vs what games we finish. And back then i fisnished all small amounts of games and we recall every nook and cranny of the games, nowadays its really cool to look at a 200 game library but we are not taking the best of them because of the diversity, we have so much we quite cant click as easily (at least this is how i feel but i have found people with different opinions)