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@Woderwick I remember Makro, I used to buy heavily discounted Atari 2600 and Amstrad games from there!

They're still around, they merged with another trade chain about 10 years ago.

When did Sony's "This is Football" series begin?

I just love the fact the winner's "life changing" prize turned out to be being ignored for two years, then given a poster!

@Agent_P That's right, I had to spend ages explaining to them what the difference was, sending multiple photos.

Then they changed the price of the analogue stick, so I couldn't get a refund >.>

@TransmitHim I'm avoiding their site now, it's run by morons and scam artists.

Their website is the real gamble. I've been ripped off multiple times, like a copy of Snatcher with half the box missing, but still charged full price. and being sent the wrong analogue PS1 controller, then having to go through mutiiple emails to explain the difference between the analogue and dual shock controllers.

@Agent_P A lot of import stores modded Japanese/American consoles to accept PAL.

Most machines were both PAL and NTSC inside, one size fits all, you just needed to bridge the connector to change them.

That and a lot of TV's were also both PAL and NTSC in the UK.

@gb_nes_gamer I can't order from GAME after my account was hacked and had my card details stolen

Sort of been banned or something.

@Agent_P I've had a couple of articles on here too int he past ^_^

@Agent_P For me, it was mostly from adverts in magazines like CVG and Super Play for import games, There was also a stall at Wembley Market that was run by the people who went on to start CEX, and there was also a game shop in St. Albans called Software First I bought my Japanese Mega Drive from with a copy of ESWAT and New Zealand Story.

Remember the guy who ran it even, big guy called Chris.

CEX did open up a game shop in Harrow, their second r third store, they were all about import games then. remember them selling Mario Kart 64 for £150.

I look forward to this never coming out in the UK >.>

@mjparker77 Makes me wonder if they are planning a steering wheel controller in the future, Taito made a couple of racing games.

And STILL no bloody Chase HQ!!! >

I wonder if he had anything to do with the import game shop down the road from Edgware? They modded my PAL SNES to do 60hz, and I also bought a Super Wild Card copying device off them.

Software Creations were doing a deal with Nintendo to publish games first party, like Tin Star and Plok was at some point too.

Could this have been an official ExciteBike at some point?

@AceGrace I'm still waiting on a couple of games I ordered well over a year ago. Snow Bros. being one.

Its a shame the cancelled arcade version has never surfaced

@treos Aww, bless you, thank you ^_^

Still don't know why these publishers don't comission the fan projects to something they could officially release, rather than shut them down.

Sega did it and we got Sonic Mania as a result. I guess they'd rather not make money and have negative press instead.

I wouldn't mind a port of Human Killing Machine to the Mega Drive also

When I saw "FC 24" for pre-order on Xbox this morning, I honestly thought it was related to UFC. So, if that's not just me...

Pete's finally learned to keep his yap shut on a forthcoming project?

Has Hell frozen over or something?!?!

I wonder what he thinks of the Western box art for the game?

There's also EA's Shadow of the Beast. Developed in the UK, but they never bothered changing the speed of the game when releasing a PAL developed game on NTSC systems, so runs way to fast to actually play.

The Japanese version, again was fixed. Also sorted out the garish colours.

Sega's huge problem, unlike Nintendo is that they let nearly all of their classic franchises lapse out of public memory, outside of Sonic, and a lesser extent Football Manager, the casual person has no clue what else Sega makes now.

So I doubt anyone's clambering for an Alex Kidd or Golden Axe movie ATM.

After the huge success of the Super Mario Movie and The Last of Us, there's going to be a huge cash grab for a ton of gaming IP's. So I'd honestly expect to see a tsunami of them over the next 5-10 years.

Gaming movies are going to be what comic movies were in the '90s.

@HammerGalladeBro Well that's just pure nightmare fuel!

I'm still curious how Samus manages to seperate her shoulders that much that her arms can fit in the suit's arms.

@JayJ yeah, i would definitely wait until theyre properly in stock. drives me nuts that they sit on your money.

I'm still waiting for mine, ordered it well over a year ago now >

Aww poo, missed it

Look, I'm not paying $18,000 for a copy of Neo Turf Masters when the developer/publisher doesn't see a penny of that and 100% goes into the pockets of scalpers.

So yes, I do use Flash Carts, but if a homebrew devloper has a physical release of their game, I will always buy it from them, the special edition too.

Speaking of which, I STILL haven't had my copy of Paprium.