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Keith Houchen

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2 hours ago, Ralphy said:

How come you never really see much merch for mega drive, yet snes seems to have a shed load? 

Because Sega was always a poor second in America, so merch lines follow that path. Also Sega died and was reborn in the 2000s and is barely a software house any more.

2 hours ago, FelatioLips said:

I had both, in which was the only benefit of having divorced parents. Good memories of both but it's Mega Drive all the way for me.

And I had you down as the resident Nintendo fanboy. This is the right answer (though SNES had better soundtracks).

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I'll go with the SNES — I had a Megadrive, they were much better, but I have a great memory of the SNES.

People might remember, but there was a farmer boy named Scotty at my school who, when asked if he was going to our (ace) school disco, he replied "No. Stayin' in, watchin' Boon". Well, one autumn, someone asked him what he wanted for Christmas, and he replied "SNES." Everyone chose to hear it as "sledge," so he spent the rest of the term being asked "are your hopes up for your sledge," and "why would you want a sledge over a games console or something." Obviously, after Christmas it carried on with "Are you disappointed you didn't get a sledge?"

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1 hour ago, Sphinx said:

It was all about Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Monkey Island, Worms, Syndicate, Flashback, Lemmings and...erm...Soccer Kid until I got a PlayStation.

Flashback. Wow completely forgot about that game.

Zool, Populous, Chaos Engine, Superfrog & Dessert Strike were just wonderful games as well. 

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2 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Going waaaay off track now, but did anyone ever play Chakkan and was it any good? It looked great in magazines but I never played it.

Not really. The character was slow and hard to control, and the level design was pants. But the character design was very cool and the mags played on that.

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About 7 or 8 years ago, back when I worked in Staples, there was a huge campaign to push the fucking things. I thought they disappeared from the face of the Earth in the 90's, but nope, there we were in 2010 giving these disastrous gimmicks the hard sell. It had prime, front-of-store placement too, a big tower of the abominations right in front of the door. They were eventually all shipped backed to the supplier, couldn't even fit them all onto a single pallet. Some middle-management's idea for a 'retro nostalgia' product failed big time.

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