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Well it was impressive how they kept it going well into the late 90’s with enormous cartridges full of samples and graphics. Leagues away from The Super Spy. It was PS1 and Saturn era by then, mind you.

I do own a Burning Fight MVS. I like it, but it is a bit tacky looking in places against Final Fight.
NAM1975 on the other hand looks way better than Cabal. Just so bastard hard.
 
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Never really bothered with any Console, Atari 2600 I did have from local discount shop but then C64, Atari ST, Amiga then didn't have anything for a while till working at computer repair company and seeing Alone in the Dark I built a 486 PC, had quite a few console for free or really cheap in late 90s early 2000s but end up selling most, kept a PS1, PS2 and Dreamcast but never get used, no way I'd have paid £120 for 1 game cart, I'd never have played them enough to warrant it but Arcade boards is different matter
 
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Oh man, console playground wars have begun again. 😁 Everyone knows the holy trinity [don't even bother arguing] is:

SNES — the sheer depth, variety and perfection.
Neo Geo — truly the arcade, ultimate power and presence.
PC Engine — Sony like innovation, literally the GOAT form factor, plain cool.
 
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Max... said:
Oh man, console playground wars have begun again. 😁 Everyone knows the holy trinity [don't even bother arguing] is:

SNES — the sheer depth, variety and perfection.
Neo Geo — truly the arcade, ultimate power and presence.
PC Engine — Sony like innovation, literally the GOAT form factor, plain cool.
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Well I'll agree with the PC Engine as being the coolest.
All the Amiga vs. ST fighting looked a bit silly with that thing available in 1987 and looking way more arcade-like (if you could go with the faff/cost of importing).

I had an 8088 CGA PC, which was useless for games, so getting a Megadrive in 1990 was incredible.
 
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Born 74 so around peak time to go through the growing years of early home computers and consoles while chasing and dreaming of that arcade home experience. Pong 1970s home console that a aunt borrowed to us. Then an Atari 2600 we had for a bit. Then i used to play and borrow a friends Coleco Vision which i liked because it felt closer to the arcade style and graphics. Then was the Spectrum and commodore years. I got a C16 at one point thinking in my youth and limited budget that it might be close to a C64!! Na!. Had a Spectrum +3 which was supposed to be a +2 (which i saved up for plus Christmas present money added) but the girl in Dixons put the +3 on the counter but that worked out worse as i couldn't afford the disks!! Plus again was always dreaming of that arcade experience which the home computers were far away from. Then a Sega Master System which felt very under powered but getting closer. Then the imported Japanese Megadrive with a free game, i choose Strider as the game. When i saw that game i felt the arcade home experience chase had ended after many years. Plus Japanese Strider has the best box art for a game ever.
 
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Think yourself lucky. I was born in 1970 and got a Grandstand TV game and a CGL M5 when I'd asked for a Spectrum (after months of reading magazines and drooling over the games) 🙄

Still haven't forgiven my parents (child line told me to fuck off🙄)😁

I did get a C64 a couple of years later but the trauma remains (although having got a Spectrum Next it's clear the Spectrum was crap anyway 😁)
 
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Max... said:
Oh man, console playground wars have begun again. 😁 Everyone knows the holy trinity [don't even bother arguing] is:

SNES — the sheer depth, variety and perfection.
Neo Geo — truly the arcade, ultimate power and presence.
PC Engine — Sony like innovation, literally the GOAT form factor, plain cool.
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🤜😂"Fight,fight, fight,fight" 🤣🤛
 
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We started our Console gaming when my dad bought a Novex pong type off his mate when he bought a ZX80

To be honest school mates had spectrums and another had Vic20 and I was still playing on the 2600, then other mate got C64 and I'm glad I didn't get anything earlier as I went straight into the C64 which was the right decision :) £1.99, £2.99 and 5 game compilations for £9.95 was great compared to console plus the piles of copies helped even more, if I had a console I'd probably have 5 games max

PC Engine was amazing I remember seeing it in one of the Leic game shops but again the game prices I couldn't do with, they were worth the money to have near arcade at home, thats fine if you had rich parents though so ST/Amiga with 100s of games was brilliant, not wonder original games are quite scarce on them lol
Operation Wolf I did buy Original but even on those it was £20 or £25
 
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The NeoGeo was more an adult want for me. To be fair the consoles I most wanted as a kid were probably a Vectrex and Intellivision. Spent hours drooling over the Vectrex in the local Woolworths and Debenhams for the Intellivision. Never got either but playing in store was a cheap day out 😁
 
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This is quite strange timing but entertaining - just came up on my YT feed an hour ago on the BBC archive. I wonder what one of these would have cost BITD:

(edit) average = £100 or around £1800 in today’s money.

 
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