Anyone know what the price was for classic machines when they were new? (tz, taf, mm, atf...) i know they werent really sold to the public but rather to operators etc. just curious to see where prices have gone since they were first made.
$2600 in 1997 would be $3700 today.
So yes prices have gone up much faster than inflation.
But remember that they were making sometimes 8,000 - 20,000 games at a time rather than the few thousand today, so you save money in volume.
On the other hand our CAD and CNC are much faster today, so it just goes to show if you want lower prices, you need to have some real competition.
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