Ep.23 r1 — Mortal Kombat — 6 October 1993

Right, let's go shopping.

Uh, and consoles first, the mail order adverts in the console, uh, mags that autumn had a Mega Drive two with Sonic two for a hundred and nine ninety-nine, which is about two hundred and fifty pounds now.

A Super Nintendo with Starwing or Mario All-Stars, uh, was a hundred and twelve ninety-nine from the same kind of advert.

So it's pretty much the same in today's money.

Well, for once, uh, Sega and Nintendo were neck and neck on price, Lee, and the deciding vote went to whichever one your mates had.

Uh, what did the game itself set you back though? Because I remember Mortal Kombat being dear.

It was.

Dixons ran a full-page, uh, advert in the Daily Mirror on the Friday before launch.

The Mega Drive cartridge was forty-nine ninety-nine, about a hundred and ten pounds today, and the Super Nintendo one was fifty-nine ninety-nine, roughly a hundred and thirty-five now.

The Game Boy version was, uh, twenty-nine ninety-nine, which is about sixty-five, and the Master System and Game Gear ones were thirty-four ninety-nine, about eighty quid each in today's money.

Oh, a hundred and thirty-five modern pounds for one cartridge is absolutely wild, Lee, and it explains why you only got one big game at Christmas.

And yet a music technology magazine reckoned it took fifteen million pounds in Britain in its first week, which works out at about half a million copies.