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CMYKhazi-Dan said:
I was looking for another old Atari ad but ended up with these 😆

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I remember paying something like £35-£40 for Lemmings on my Megadrive back in the early-mid 1990's (I somehow managed to get the Genesis version from my local game shop, I had an Asian Megadrive though so all games worked in it) and also a similar price for Street Fighter 2. Felt like a fortune then (still a lot now really!), it's the equivalent of paying over 75 quid for a cart now!
 
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Yikes, I remember ordering Streets of Rage 1 from one of these places (might have been special reserve) It took about 8 weeks to arrive and was the US version :(

What was it about that period that made everyone and their mum start flogging consoles and games?
 
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Street fighter 2 special championship on the megadrive..£70 woolworths,i got it for crimbo,wouldnt let anyone put the cartridge in my console,spent years slating snes street fighter saying "itll be a lot better on the megadrive"popped it on, o_O graphically s..t.bloody awful.
 
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Shoryu-stu said:
Street fighter 2 special championship on the megadrive..£70 woolworths,i got it for crimbo,wouldnt let anyone put the cartridge in my console,spent years slating snes street fighter saying "itll be a lot better on the megadrive"popped it on, o_O graphically s..t.bloody awful.
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Haha, one of my friends from school and I STILL tow the line on this. We swear blind that the MD version was better, while messaging each other how shit it was in comparison.
 
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John Bennett said:
At the time of the late 80's it never really registered with me that you could buy actual interchangeable arcade PCBs.
It was 1997 when I properly twigged (and you could research via the internet, MAME and newsgroups like here) and me and the little brother bought most of our PCB stash (everything we loved as kids).
I had it in my head the PC Engine was expensive, but reading up now, it looked to be around £150 in 1989 money, which is less than half an Amiga and ST price. Games-wise, you could see it wiped the floor with them for anything sprite related, amazing little thing. Even the tinny sampled sound was good.

Wish they'd named it differently though - I had an actual PC, so I'd initially get all excited and confused seeing 'PC Engine' and these amazing looking games.

Of course NEC never bothered to release it here, they just got annoyed when people came to them with issues...
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The first time i saw a PC Engine was in Hamleys in 1989. A guy had his imported one on the counter downstairs. He was showing his mate who was serving and they had it link up onto a portable television. They were playing Gunhed and it blew me away. Years of Atari, Spectrum and early Sega & Nintendo and always dreamed of the arcade experience, and there it was right in front of me. Awesome little machine. (Beautiful as well)
 
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