Guess the Price of Retro Games Consoles & Tech
How much did a Nintendo 64 cost when it came out? What about a Commodore 64, the first Apple Macintosh or the original Game Boy? This quiz puts retro console prices to the test. You guess the launch price of famous games consoles, home computers and gadgets, from the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey and the Atari 2600 to the PlayStation 5 and Steam Deck.
Every answer shows the original price and the price in today’s money, adjusted for inflation. So you can finally settle whether that console really was expensive back then. Some retro prices look surprisingly high once you see them in modern terms.
Gaming & tech launch prices, then and now
All 147 Gaming & tech questions
Every product below is a real question in the game. Can you guess where it comes from and what it cost when it first went on sale?
- Regency TR-1 transistor radio (1954)
- DEC PDP-8 minicomputer (1965)
- HP 9100A calculator (1968)
- HP-35 Calculator (1972)
- Magnavox Odyssey (1972)
- Altair 8800 (1975)
- Sears Tele-Games Pong (1975)
- Apple I (1976)
- Coleco Telstar (1976)
- Cray-1 supercomputer (1976)
- Fairchild Channel F (1976)
- Texas Instruments TI-30 (1976)
- Apple II (1977)
- Atari 2600 (1977)
- Commodore PET 2001 (1977)
- TRS-80 (with monitor and tape recorder) (1977)
- Magnavox Odyssey 2 (1978)
- Atari 400 (1979)
- Intellivision (1979)
- Milton Bradley Microvision (1979)
- Texas Instruments TI-99/4 (1979)
- Apple III (1980)
- IBM Personal Computer (1981)
- Osborne 1 (1981)
- Xerox Star 8010 (1981)
- Atari 5200 (1982)
- Commodore 64 (1982)
- Emerson Arcadia 2001 (1982)
- Kaypro II (1982)
- Timex Sinclair 1000 (1982)
- Vectrex (1982)
- Apple IIe (1983)
- Apple Lisa (1983)
- Coleco Adam (1983)
- Compaq Portable (1983)
- Apple Macintosh (128K) (1984)
- IBM PCjr (1984)
- Amiga 1000 (1985)
- NES / Famicom (1985)
- Apple Macintosh Plus (1986)
- Atari 1040ST (1986)
- Atari 7800 (1986)
- Sega Master System (1986)
- Tandy 1000 EX (1986)
- Amiga 500 (1987)
- Macintosh II (1987)
- NeXT Computer (1988)
- Atari Lynx (1989)
- Game Boy (1989)
- Macintosh Portable (1989)
- Sega Genesis / Mega Drive (1989)
- TurboGrafx-16 (1989)
- Macintosh Classic (1990)
- Macintosh LC (1990)
- Neo Geo AES (Gold System) (1991)
- Philips CD-i (1991)
- PowerBook 100 (1991)
- Sega CD (1991)
- Sega Game Gear (1991)
- Super Nintendo (SNES) (1991)
- 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (Panasonic FZ-1) (1993)
- Apple Newton MessagePad (1993)
- Atari Jaguar (1993)
- Intel Pentium (60 MHz) (1993)
- Apple QuickTake 100 (1994)
- Sega 32X (1994)
- Atari Jaguar CD (1995)
- Nintendo Virtual Boy (1995)
- PlayStation (PS1) (1995)
- Sega Nomad (1995)
- Sega Saturn (1995)
- Apple Pippin @WORLD (1996)
- Game Boy Pocket (1996)
- Motorola StarTAC (1996)
- Neo Geo CD (1996)
- Nintendo 64 (1996)
- PalmPilot Personal (1997)
- Tiger Game.com (1997)
- Game Boy Camera (1998)
- Game Boy Color (1998)
- iMac G3 (1998)
- Rio PMP300 MP3 player (1998)
- Apple iBook (clamshell) (1999)
- Dreamcast (1999)
- Neo Geo Pocket Color (1999)
- PlayStation 2 (2000)
- Power Mac G4 Cube (2000)
- Apple iPod (2001)
- Game Boy Advance (2001)
- Microsoft Xbox (2001)
- Nintendo GameCube (2001)
- Game Boy Advance SP (2003)
- Nokia N-Gage (2003)
- Nintendo DS (2004)
- Apple iPod shuffle (first generation) (2005)
- Apple Mac mini (first model) (2005)
- Game Boy Micro (2005)
- PlayStation Portable (PSP) (2005)
- Xbox 360 (2005)
- Microsoft Zune 30 (2006)
- PlayStation 3 (PS3) (2006)
- Wii (2006)
- MacBook Air (first model) (2008)
- Wii Fit (2008)
- Fitbit Tracker (2009)
- Nintendo DSi (2009)
- PSP Go (2009)
- Apple iPad (2010)
- Kinect for Xbox 360 (2010)
- Amazon Kindle Fire (2011)
- Nintendo 3DS (2011)
- iPad mini (2012)
- Microsoft Surface RT (2012)
- PlayStation Vita (2012)
- Raspberry Pi (Model B) (2012)
- Wii U (Basic Set) (2012)
- Google Chromecast (2013)
- Google Glass (Explorer Edition) (2013)
- Ouya (2013)
- Pebble smartwatch (2013)
- PlayStation 4 (PS4) (2013)
- Xbox One (2013)
- Amazon Fire Phone (2014)
- Apple Pencil (1st generation) (2015)
- Apple Watch Sport (2015)
- NES Classic Edition (2016)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (2016)
- Oculus Rift (2016)
- PlayStation VR (2016)
- iPhone X (2017)
- Nintendo Switch (2017)
- Super NES Classic Edition (2017)
- Nintendo Switch Lite (2019)
- Oculus Quest (2019)
- Valve Index (2019)
- Apple HomePod mini (2020)
- Meta Quest 2 (2020)
- PlayStation 5 (PS5) (2020)
- Xbox Series S (2020)
- Xbox Series X (2020)
- Nintendo Switch (OLED model) (2021)
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (2022)
- Steam Deck (2022)
- Meta Quest 3 (2023)
- PlayStation VR2 (2023)
- Apple Vision Pro (2024)
- Nintendo Switch 2 (2025)
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Famous retro console prices, then and now
Here are some of the retro console prices you can read about in full. Each one links to the story behind the price.
- Atari 2600 (1977): $199
- NES (1985): $179.99
- Game Boy (1989): $89.95
- Nintendo 64 (1996): $199.99
- PlayStation 2 (2000): $299
- Commodore 64 (1982): $595
Retro console prices also tell a story. New consoles often launched at a high price and then got cheaper. Home computers cost far more: the first Apple Macintosh was $2,495 in 1984.
Old prices can look tiny, but inflation changes the picture. We convert every launch price with the US Consumer Price Index from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can browse every story on our famous launch prices page.
How to play
Most rounds start with a world map. Drop a pin where you think the product was invented. Then guess its original launch price. We reveal the real price, its value in today’s money and how far off your pin was. The closer you are, the more points you score.