Again with this buying all your games bullshit that may be true if your in a rural town sure maybe, but in the city where the majority of the players actually are at the time you only buy PC games console games could all be rented and they were too. You didn't buy a console game unless you really, really liked it instead you rented it at a fraction of the cost, play the shit out of it, and put it back on the shelf. If it was hyped then it'd be just as pricey as buying most of the time until after a while the price dropped and the length of time you can play it increased you could afford to play 3-4 games this way. If you were a poorfag then 2-3 and you'd have to wait 2 weeks after the hottest new release so it'd be more affordable since rent prices goes down after a time.
I can't help but feel voice acting goes totally unappreciated in games
Renting movies was more feasible cus you only watched it once then probably didn't feel like watching it again (if you liked it enough then you'd just ask your parents if they would buy it, probably). And at most movies are about 2 hours. Playing a game though you wouldn't always be able to complete it in 2 or 3 days, however long you got to keep it. I still remember saving money to so I could pay for most the price of a Game Boy Pocket and play Pokemon with it.
There's a difference between being a kid in the 90s and being a teen of the 90s, which seems like more of what you're describing. Kids just wanted to play the games, and as you said not everyone lives in a city or with parents who have a lot of money to throw around.
Nigger I was one of those poorfags growing up and I'm telling you your full of shit. 2-3 days? Only if it was really fucking popular and it was still new then it would downgrade to a week after a while and then after a longer while 2 weeks if it's unpopular which is plenty of time for kids and teens to beat because of all that time on their hands, if it's a game like pokemon they always had these discount deals if you wanted to buy it and I'd wait for that most games you owned was the likes of fighting games or pokemon or racing cause it's pointless to rent those kinds of games. Even then I'd still rent those types so i can try it out and if I didn't like it I would drop it and move on to something else, don't go talking shit cause you read some articles from a quick Google-fu on how expensive games were to buy or how little games console owners actually owned, the vast majority of console games played were rentals and the stats don't take those into account.
How am I supposed to take you seriously?
nigger
Bump in case anyone else has more to add to the topic.