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SuperPlay

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Games Adverts - Console Concepts (UK)
« on: October 16, 2011, 08:02:17 AM »
I was flicking though some old magazines today and I came across this Advert for Console Concepts in the UK.  They were a games importer in the 90's and it just so happens this is where I used to work!

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C+VG Adverts: From the Web!

November 1992 (Superplay)

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henrycsc

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Re: Games Advert
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2011, 10:17:34 AM »
Monkey?
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Re: Games Advert
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2011, 04:03:58 PM »
Quote from: henrycsc on October 16, 2011, 10:17:34 AM
Monkey?

Lol yeah, and even a shoot'em up. what might it be if well translated? :lol:

lol, PARODIOS.
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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2011, 04:08:52 PM »
Damn, we also had Super Adventure Island on the PCE. I bet it was even better than the SFC pendant.
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Re: Games Advert
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2011, 07:04:12 PM »
Comic books had some of the best TG-16 ads way back when.
I'll try to share them here soon... ;)
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Re: Games Advert
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2011, 08:00:41 AM »
Monkey ..... now there is an interesting one ;-) I cannot remember off top of my head what this would have been (it was 19 yeas ago) I will have a scan around to see if I can work this out.

PARODIOS, never noticed this one before :-) and as for Super Adventure Island on the PCE, I bet that Chris Covell did not even know about this one LOL ;-)

December 1992 (Superplay)

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Re: Games Advert
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2011, 11:53:52 AM »
Monkey could be Gokuraku Chuka Taisen...?
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« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2011, 06:50:11 AM »
Quote from: ccovell on October 17, 2011, 11:53:52 AM
Monkey could be Gokuraku Chuka Taisen...?

I am sure it would have been.
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Re: Games Advert
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2011, 06:50:19 AM »
Quote from: ccovell on October 17, 2011, 11:53:52 AM
Monkey could be Gokuraku Chuka Taisen...?

Most likely. They (meaning all importers) used to make/mess up all sorts of wrong names for import games back then.
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Re: Games Advert
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2011, 07:27:23 AM »

I suspect that the use of the title "Monkey" was an attempt to tie in with one of the re-runs of the popular 70's series monkey (Saiyuki)

In the series the character Monkey had the power to summon clouds. (Cloud Master)

Monkey Cloud Chase scene:



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« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2011, 05:48:11 AM »
January 1993 (Superplay) - Same advert published in Febuary



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Re: Games Advert
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2011, 07:46:12 AM »
This advert is from "PC Engine Supplies" this was the import business that ultimately became "Console Concepts"

April 1989 (C+VG Issue 90)



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Re: Games Advert
« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2011, 08:22:25 AM »
June 1989 (C+VG Issue 92)




July 1989 (C+VG Issue 93)




August 1989 (C+VG Issue 93b)


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« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2011, 09:36:51 AM »
So, these were PAL converted PC Engines, and not the PAL TurboGrafx?

£500 for the CD Unit in 1989 - WOW!  The Queen will have to sell her jewelry.
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« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2011, 10:08:36 AM »
Quote from: henrycsc on October 27, 2011, 09:36:51 AM
So, these were PAL converted PC Engines, and not the PAL TurboGrafx?

£500 for the CD Unit in 1989 - WOW!  The Queen will have to sell her jewelry.

Yes these were Japanese imports that were either converted to PAL or to RGB

£500, this is why I never owned one in 1990 ;-) Lucky for me I worked in the place (well when it became console concepts)so there was plenty of opportunity to play :-)


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