This 1991 ‘Nintendo Therapy Session’ Shows Early Parental Fears About Video Game Addiction

They were even complaining about a lack of backwards compatibility back then!

Video games are an unfortunately expensive hobby. Sure, you can load up on whatever stuff is currently on sale on Steam, but if you want to keep with the trends and join all of the major titles the Twitch streamers are playing, you’re going to need to shell out a pretty penny for every game.

As it turns out, this has always been the case. These news reports from 1991 show people getting annoyed that they can’t just play the SNES games in their original NES, as well as grumbling about how expensive games are getting.

Hate to tell you, but things aren’t that much better today!