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If you can't remember the prices, maybe you should look them up (list from 1990, price in DM) instead of basing your argument on a pair of rose tinted glasses. Plenty of games in that list in the $30-$50 range, but also a few games for $70, which is kind of pretty much exactly what we have today.

So what your saying is, since I said I never paid more the $50 for a game, and most being $30-$50, that I should look it up because of my rose colored glasses?

Seems to me even though I didn't think I remembered, i did remember just fine. Not sure what you are going on about though.

All the price lists I have looked at say something different (price in DM, lists from 1985/1986 Germany): Apple II with prices up to $100 per game and Amiga games in normal PC price range, Spectrum and C64 prices tend to be a little cheaper then Amiga/Atari stuff, being in the $15-$30 range, but even on those systems there are a few games that have normal todays PC pricing, all that ignoring inflation.

I have yet to see a price list where games really are across the board substantially cheap then they are today.

All the price lists I have looked at say something different (price in DM, lists from 1985/1986 Germany): Apple II with prices up to $100 per game and Amiga games in normal PC price range, Spectrum and C64 prices tend to be a little cheaper then Amiga/Atari stuff, being in the $15-$30 range, but even on those systems there are a few games that have normal todays PC pricing, all that ignoring inflation.

I have yet to see a price list where games really are across the board substantially cheap then they are today.

If you can't remember the prices, maybe you should look them up (list from 1990, price in DM) instead of basing your argument on a pair of rose tinted glasses. Plenty of games in that list in the $30-$50 range, but also a few games for $70, which is kind of pretty much exactly what we have today.

Yeah, the N64 have been expensive, but C64 games were cheap in their time.

A little, but not even remotely that much: C64 prices (prices in DM, multiply by two to get EUR)

Prices there range from 20EUR-33EUR, not much of a difference compared to days PC prices today. A look at the Amazon.de best seller list shows me prices ranging from 15EUR-55EUR. With a game like Mass Effect 2, just nine month on the market, selling for just 16,40EUR. I find it a little hard to complain about that.

Posting all links & info in my OP would be karma whoring. But apparently you are too lazy to do some research yourself, if you don't wanna know, why should I care about you? But I care about pandora, and that's only why I will give you links to ubuntu running on pandora devboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOPNurKei0I - Which proves that ubuntu indeed is running on ARM.

And this is pandora prototype running angstrom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nis0OjKmGGY

The prototype itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MaIQYHd23A

Which has been just received by the hardware guy for final testing - and he has a crappy camera as you can see. Now they will be ordering keypads (you see the keys aren't there yet), then a final version of CNC case to test it, then head to mass production. This process will take about one/two months from now.

there you can read more: http://openpandora.wordpress.com/

and there you can see more videos: http://www.kultpower.de/pandoravideos/

It's perfect for me. I paid upfront and I'm glad that I managed to do it before everyone else - all 4000 units were sold in 3 days, when preordering started. Now go back to you whining somewhere else.

I have preordered the Pandora console and I'm happy. It gives me about 10h of running Ubuntu on an ARM cpu in a mere 0.3 kg of weight.

Oh thre's also an unofficial blog and a video vault. You might like the forums too.

You forgot the German navy: go here,here or here.