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Nintendo/Sega games, buying arcade games

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Troy Saville

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Mar 18, 1989, 2:50:29 PM3/18/89
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Nintendo and Sega games will be dead by the end of 1992.
Probably before then. Does anyone know where I can buy
a Donkey Kong machine??

Indra Laksono

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Mar 22, 1989, 1:43:20 AM3/22/89
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> Nintendo/Sega will be dead by 1992......

Actually, Nintendo/Sega is already dead in much of Asia. The
current hot machine is NEC's PC ENGINE. Sega has pretty much
abandoned their stock sega machine and concentrate on their
Sega 16 bit machine.

Why has PC ENGINE killed Nintendo? The answer lies in graphics.
In HK, many arcades actually use PC-ENGINE for their video games
and few people realize this. The graphics is the same, and it
has stereo sound. The only reason NEC has not marketed this
machine in N. America is because they couldn't keep up with
demand in Japan alone. (The machines are not officially sold
outside Japan by NEC (at least not in Asia), and machines
in HK are bought in Japan. The ones in Singapore are brought
over from HK. All docs are in Japanese.

An NTSC system costs HK$1100 with one free game, (this is about
CAN$185) Over in Japan, when bought by dealers in bulk, they
are (supposedly) HK800 (about CAN125, US105).


I have an acquantance who owns a Nintendo and I purchased (at his
request) Super Mario Brothers III (which has been out in Singapore
for 6 months). The cartridge was unusable here. Since it was
well kept in transport, I must assume that the North American
machines are constructed to reject games not yet released in
here? (Correct me if I'm wrong) If this is true, then people
here should just buy NTSC versions in HK and get their games there
too. (The games are generally from US15 to US30).

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