I was thinking about this the other day, cost of games and so forth
I don't think games are vastly more expensive now as they were then, looking back a game for say £15 back in 1987/88 what would the same money have bought you in shopping
I think games have always been expensive, I remember paying £15-20 for a gameboy game when they first came out and seeing them go up by £10 over the next ten years or so