Evan Ratliff
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
what the future was, what it contained, what it looked like, and they gave it to everybody.
And then I had the six-wheel or eight-wheel, I can't remember, all-terrain vehicle.
It was a really, like, exuberant time.
It was like the future had been brought to the present, and it was all thanks to Nintendo, basically.
Well, that's nice.
And that's about all that we were, that's about all we could afford.
So it retailed for about $150 back then, which is, what, close to $500 today?
But that was probably quite an outlay from your parents.
No, it was great.
Yeah, $400, something like that.
And that was over time, you know.
Right, several Christmases, right?
All right.
So, I mean, kind of on par with, you know, the range of even modern gaming.
Yeah, and this was, like I said, I came in on the 70s, but in the 60s they actually, G.I.
I mean, what's the new PlayStation, like, 5 maybe?
Joe did not do very well because of the Vietnam War.
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
I think it's somewhere in there, $500 or $600.