I remember them running an article ,where the prices of pcbs at the time were listed
It was like 25 quid for ghosts n goblins etc
This is when I really got drawn to superguns and stuff
It didn’t matter that the games were dated ,out of fashion
They had never ever been converted properly so this was the chance
40 years later ,still chasing the same buzz
A friend of mine imported the pc engine
Those adds had me tortured
That was the first proper arcade like machine for homes
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...
