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Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:31AM (#35989421)
> The other extremely clever thing Nintendo did with the NES was to put the video bus on the cartridge, and this enabled them to expand the console's apparent capabilities by adding new features to game paks.

Can you imagine putting the video card in every copy of a game now? What a time that was.

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Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by michaelchisari on Thursday May 18, 2023 @01:24PM (#35991254)
| Can you imagine putting the video card in every copy of a game now?

I remember Star Fox (which included the SuperFX graphics chip on the cartridge) going for $90 on release in 1993.

That's $188.95 in today's dollars.

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