{"id":57347,"date":"2013-08-25T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T06:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=57347"},"modified":"2013-08-25T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T06:46:04","slug":"the-money-behind-video-game-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/57347-the-money-behind-video-game-tech","title":{"rendered":"The money behind video game tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

NeoMam Infographic Agency has released an infographic titled \u201cThe Money Behind Retro Tech\u201d, showing the pricing of retro video game systems, their inflated value and some other interesting stats.<\/p>\n

Considering the effect of inflation, the value of some old video game consoles is rather impressive, such as the original Atari 2600 which retailed for $199, now the equivalent of $799 through inflation.<\/p>\n

Another impressive stat is that the original Nintendo Gameboy has sold over 119 million units.<\/p>\n

Check out the other facts below:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Money Behind Retro Tech<\/p><\/div>\n

Source: NeoMam<\/a><\/h6>\n

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How much would consoles be worth now in relation to their original sale values?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":56319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11002,3483,7181,21,73,1587,1109],"class_list":["post-57347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-atari-2600","tag-consoles","tag-gameboy","tag-headline","tag-nintendo","tag-retro","tag-sega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57679,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57347\/revisions\/57679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}