Back in 1981 I was able to buy the RQ2 box with saved allowance for (I think) £10. RQ3 came along and cost about £40, completely forcing the game out of my reach, and pretty much every kid's reach. It took a long time before that cost and the dreadful initial supplements damage was repaired.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:17 PM, markmohrfield <markmohrfield_at_EVBv1kSWA-nM097q7YgPMguRCTID_-RTuJyXOZhTfJHwyY1gM8C2uzERQ9tzJ27nIXsESx2l_hviq-goIYM.yahoo.invalid>wrote:
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> > Just for laugh and giggles, I checked out the original release price of
> Runequest in 1978 ("A $26 Value") and then computed that price in 2008
> dollars (we don't yet have the data for 2009 but it is likely to look
> awful).
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> > Runequest cost $85 in 2009 dollars.
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> > Just ponder that.
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> > Jeff
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> Wasn't the rulebook $11.99? (Which still comes to better than $40.00, of
> course.) For a really absurd price, we can always look to how much we paid
> for the deluxe RQ3 box in '85. $40.00, wasn't it?
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> Mark Mohrfield
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