>saving all that sweet lunch money you got mom to buy that

I was on free and reduced lunch in middle school and I had to get a job and work to pay for my own lunch in high school. Fuck you.

Eh, I had an allowance - admittedly not that much, but after a few 2 or 3 months of saving up that could usually net me a new game.

>>4167870

Good its payback in advance. Your parents knew you were going to be a huge faggot.

>>4168014

Take this attitude back to /v/

>spent half a year saving money to buy the playstation
>finally got the money, buy it in July 96
>don't have money for games though, live in shithole so no rentals either, just the demo disc
>had to wait to January to get games
those were the times

I never had an allowance, I just had to wait for my parents to buy me stuff. Mainly Christmas and birthday, but a decent number of other times throughout the year too.

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>be filthy Yuropoor
>save €70 your entire year long to buy a PS1 game
>skip medical checkups, school trips and lunch to get Resident Evil 1
>get home
>put CD into your Yuropoor PC
>game doesn't work
>ask parents about it
>"you need a playstation you fucking retard child"
>go to jewish labor camp
>work your ass off until you have enough money for a Playstation
>PS2 is already out
>finally can play Resident Evil with 25 FPS and cut content

*BREATHES IN*

>>4168649
Tell me more about employment in jewish labor camps.

>>4168649
>not buying used PSX
>not getting a burned CD-R with the game you want

???

>>4168649
>Be Britfag
>Parents made enough money to give me £5 allowance a week
>6 - 8 weeks saving for new game
>sometimes waited for new game to launch and buy that instead
>goes well until 1997
>Tony Blair elected
>fuck sake

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>Sell Gameboy Color with the Megaman games I had and use some of the money I had already saved to buy Gamboy Advance.
>Gameboy Advance SP gets announces a week late.

>>4167870
Me too. Fuck OP's little lord fauntleroy BULLSHIT.
Class War Now

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$30 dollars a month allowance and selling pirated PC games

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>be me
>poorfag
>save up all summer for a nomad
>think I'm smart since I'll already have games for my handheld
>mfw can't afford batteries

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>>4171651
>selling pirated pc games

> get a shitty second hand laptop
> internet
> discover emulation
> pirating
> abandonwear
> dos games

I was not very inclined to use money on anything game related after the turbofails that were the gamecube and gba.

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>>4168014
kek

>>4167860
>Be poor as a child
>Was not able to afford stuff for my birthday due to the shit economy
>My parents take me to kmart and we pick out what we want i want for my birthday
>Watch as the video games and the toys get taken in back for layaway and i have to wait over a month till i finally get my gifts (included video games).

>>4172149
That is a feel I do not know and that fucking hurts

>>4172159
>That is a feel I do not know and that fucking hurts

>Come time for birthday (a few days after my stuff got put into layaway since i remember it because it was the girl i had a crush on's birthday).
>Open my presents
>Get one stuffed animal and a lunch box
>Parents tell me not to worry as my stuff is on the way
>finally get my stuff in november well after a month of my birthday
>At least my neighbor had a couple of arcade games so i did have some fun at least (ms pacman, mr do! and nintendo arcade machine).

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>your yfw when you discover piracy

>>4172149
>>4172178

Your parents were smart, credit cards are the devil.

>>4172198
>Your parents were smart, credit cards are the devil.
My parents used credit cards then and credit cards today the difference is you cannot use a credit card when you have no forseeable way of paying it back without interest if at all.

They were far too poor to use a credit card but now since they have more cash they use them alot more.

>>4171825
Ah to be young.
When I was ten Pentium 2 was a twinkle in the eye of an engineer.

>>4168649
>skip medical checkups
>europe
fuck off americlap

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>>4168649
>70€ for a PSX game
more like half of that, PSX games were known for being much cheaper than other options back then

>>4172208
no one cares.