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This is an ad from Best Buy in 2000. You can see in the next to last picture, Diablo 2 and Microsoft Flight Sim 2000. Both releasing at $49.99.
Most of them.
I've been buying games since the mid-90s. They've always been $50. But as the last paragraph states, people don't give a shit about what the price should be based on inflation. They care about what they can afford.
The fact that game prices have stayed the same for so long and people still feel strapped to purchase them just shows how wages haven't increased. Not that we needed anymore proof.