major retail stores sold games early 90's. I used to buy import and Aussie games out of a dudes garage! he had the whole thing set up with racks and everything. kids lined up on the road with bikes all over the place. I would ride my BMX there just to see what other kids bought. every now and then I would trade in an old game for 70 bucks, yeah he would give you you that much and then get a new one. Games would regularly be 100+ I remember saving like a mother fucker and getting sonic 3 and jungle strike in one hit, Kids lost their shit. good times, how shit's changed. What's with the people asking "what's with Steam?"? Seriously, that's been covered a billion times. The local publishers set the price, and they don't want to undercut the local retail stores, because then the retail stores would be pissed and not sell games from that publisher. We've discussed it ad nauseam, most recently in the Fallout:NV article comments... "Getting games rated in Australia is a substantial expense" Is it? Because I've heard from a friend in the industry that the price for reviewing DVDs is $700 for a 1 to 2 hour film. Surely it's not outrageously over that... Bring on the revolution - I've started to buy from the net and I'll happily tell anyone who'll listen that it's the way to go. Interestingly parallel importing of CDs was finally allowed in 1998 (supported