Realmedia player. They tried so hard to make people like it…

Had a Logitech sidewinder joystick that was pretty dope back in the day

The Atari 2600 joysticks were a blight. The base was so small and the stick so unresponsive I remember having to hold the base steady with my feet to use that accursed controller. The breakout dial controller was pretty sweet tho.

Inflation applies to games that are actively being developed for sure. Games don’t program themselves. You need people to do it. Those people need wages to pay rent/food/utilities. If the prices of those things go up they’ll need higher wages which will usually come from higher prices on the game that in this case, they continuously develop.