Being a Schilling kid, yeah, let’s say 500 or even 1000 ÖS felt like a fortune. Found one of my grandmother’s old snack bar menus from 1991 the other day. Small beer 5 Schilling and 50 Groschen. Holy Alcoholism.
Isn’t that indexed from 2001, the last year the DM was a currency? It still seems low to me, I’d guess inflation to be about 1.5-2 times higher. But, the Atari VC2600 was from the early 80’s, so that’s a lot more inflation on top.
Then it’s way too low IMO. You could buy 25 beers at a bar for 25 DM back then, which will be about € 75 today. The least extreme examples have at least quadrupled since.
I remember paying 100DM (~€50,-) for that one (vc2600) back then. Which would be like 5 trillion moneyz today, or something like that.
Ahhh sweet memories…played that sucker for months
Curiosity got the better of me. (100 DM = Deutsche Mark, Western German currency in 1986 when the vc2600 released) is € 112,69 as of today.
By far not the difference in inflation I suspected.
Does not sound as high as expected, but 100DM at that time sure felt like a LOT compared to what measly value 50€ have (basically none).
And it didn’t feel that much just because I was a kid. My allowance was higher than what minimum wage is. I was a spoiled brat.
Being a Schilling kid, yeah, let’s say 500 or even 1000 ÖS felt like a fortune. Found one of my grandmother’s old snack bar menus from 1991 the other day. Small beer 5 Schilling and 50 Groschen. Holy Alcoholism.
Jeez…you’d be an idiot NOT to become an alcoholic at those prices :-)
Isn’t that indexed from 2001, the last year the DM was a currency? It still seems low to me, I’d guess inflation to be about 1.5-2 times higher. But, the Atari VC2600 was from the early 80’s, so that’s a lot more inflation on top.
I think it’s indexed from 1988, at least that’s what I selected in the year drop-down.
Then it’s way too low IMO. You could buy 25 beers at a bar for 25 DM back then, which will be about € 75 today. The least extreme examples have at least quadrupled since.