In my neck of the woods, I remember most Genesis games were straight $50 regardless of MB size; Strider, PSIV, even that obscure space ship or tank game that was around 12MB, iirc..
wish I could remember the name of it Ha! Found it!... And realized I was suckered back then!
Star Control! The box says
"12 megabit game".. which obviously translates to 1.5MB. But my pre-teen self didn't know shit other than 12 is larger than 8, so the game must be HUGE. lmao
I do remember SNES games varying in price though. Seeing FFIII(6) retailing at $70 blew my mind back then. I remember thinking, man... that game must be AWESOME!!
Granted, it was an amazing game back then... If I was Team Nintendo, I would've splurged for it no question.