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Alternate Reality

When I was 15, I made a decision I would come to bitterly regret: I bought a Nintendo 64. To be clear, I loved zooming through F-Zero X and jetting around in Pilotwings 64, and there are few games I’ve had more fun playing with my friends than GoldenEye 007 and Star Fox 64… but at what cost?

Nintendo 64 games cost around £50 in 1998, or £90 in today’s money, according to the Bank Of England’s inflation calculator.

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