Those computer mag adds were to blame

[Body pop]

That’s what it was .The adds in the computer mags
Why we can’t get away from arcade machines
One stand out add in a computer mag was
Have the supersprint arcade machine in your bedroom
We bought the games and pretended we owned them ,didn’t we ?
I’m just playing my 720 and remembering how much I played it on the spectrum .tape blasting
Now I need to move it up to the bedroom
Arcade machine in your bedroom was the dream .wasnt it ?

 

[tb2000]

Yep, I seem to remember a number of ads actually featured a picture of the arcade cab itself in all its glory that the conversion as based on. I also remember those ads in some mags saying "Win an arcade machine". I think there was one offering a Terminator 2 cab for a prize. Also one that offered and Amiga and one of those massive 37" Toshiba crt tvs, and one for a Simpsons pinball.

 

[Body pop]

Yep, I seem to remember a number of ads actually featured a picture of the arcade cab itself in all its glory that the conversion as based on. I also remember those ads in some mags saying "Win an arcade machine". I think there was one offering a Terminator 2 cab for a prize. Also one that offered and Amiga and one of those massive 37" Toshiba crt tvs, and one for a Simpsons pinball.

There was one had Athena arcade machine in a suitcase.i still want that 🤣

 

[John Bennett]

Screw bothering to put in any home version footage...

 

[John Bennett]

And what I ended up actually getting :

 

[John Bennett]

Also one that offered and Amiga and one of those massive 37" Toshiba crt tvs,

 

[Stokers]

Gaming never really lived up to the promise of this advert.

 

[spinbot]

I still can’t get my head around who thought porting Dragons Lair to a C64 would be a good idea 😂 A full blown animated cartoon squeezed into an 8 bit home computer . I mean what did we expect . The pinnacle of the madness.

Most ports were poor to OK …at best . There were a few superb conversions - Bubble Bobble on the C64 was as good as you could have wanted really - looking, sounding and playing very like the arcade.

 

[Body pop]

And what I ended up actually getting :

So misleading.its almost criminal
I remember buying space harrier for the spectrum
It had the arcade screen shots on back of the box

 

[NivagSwerdna]

So true..


Not the first computer I used but the first I owned... sadly it got lost in a move somewhere along the line but computers have kept me employed ever since.

 

[Body pop]

So true..

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Not the first computer I used but the first I owned... sadly it got lost in a move somewhere along the line but computers have kept me employed ever since.

Wow never saw one of those before
Seems quite powerful for 1982 ?
Great price too if of thought

 

[Body pop]

What I wanted and what I got
I had the spectrum version which I enjoyed
So with the master system being the dream system for me at the time,surely it could be like the spectrum ,but with colour and music
I couldn’t wait
I think I completed it on first go or second
I got my dad to take it back to Woolworths and changed it for fantasy zone 2 ,paying an extra couple of pounds
It was superb and gave many hours of fun

 

[tb2000]

Ah, well it was a Mitsubishi 37" TV/monitor, not a Toshiba!

 

[Venom]

Move over Lara Croft for real women....

 

[Body pop]

Move over Lara Croft for real women....


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Is that your poster ? I still have mine
It was a decent game too

 

[big10p]

Yep, I had that poster. Don't think I ever played the game, though. 🤔

 

[Venom]

Is that your poster ? I still have mine
It was a decent game too

No just copied it of internet but I do remeber the campaign. interetsing someone has ripped it out a mag, yets its folded.....

 

[big10p]

No just copied it of internet but I do remeber the campaign. interetsing someone has ripped it out a mag, yets its folded.....

Seem to remember it was huge and needed to be folded like that to fit the mag?

 

[Body pop]

It was big yes ,it was given away with c and vg and not a centrefold

 

[big10p]

It was big yes ,it was given away with c and vg and not a centrefold

I had a few of their huge posters on my wall. C&VG was my favourite mag, in the early days.