Collecting PC-Engine in the early 90s in the UK

[Otaking]

Cool find.
When I took out an old CVG to take photos (pages to big to scan) for a PC Engine feature I found an old Telegames price list and scanned it here:
https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=19762


I've got a load of old (maybe all) issues of Electric Brain that I'll scan at some point if I can get my scanner working.
For years and years I've been searching for Onn Lee's precursor fanzines Console Ma'zine and PC Engine Fanatics. I even messaged him on Facebook a year or so back to see if he had any issues and he didn't.

Below image from VGDen website

[Ex_Mosquito]

Hah that's excellent. That would be great if you could scan those electric brain issues in Wow those PC Engine fanzines look neat, love old stuff like that.

I also found this old French copy of Mean Machines which I got on a school trip to France, it's strange why they didn't review PC Engine games in the UK version, especially when CVG had them pretty much every month.

[Otaking]

I also found this old French copy of Mean Machines which I got on a school trip to France, it's strange why they didn't review PC Engine games in the UK version, especially when CVG had them pretty much every month.

Yeah and the Complete Guide to Consoles had loads of PC Engine reviews and then after when Machine Machines magazine (UK) started there was nothing.
I vaguely remember hearing or reading in a Julian Rignall interview regards PC Engine in Mean Machines that he said it was something to do with waiting for the UK Pal Turbografx release, expecting it to launch and then it never happened (other than Telegames). But that doesn't make any sense because as you said the sister magazine CVG that he was also the Editor of had PC Engine reviews in it.

[esteban]

Found this in my Mums attic earlier. It's a flyer from Telegames selling off a couple of bargains! £70 + game for a TG. The Jaguar is pretty cheap too

This! Would it be possible to lay flyer flat and photograph it again? Or scan it?

I can take a photo and crop it/adjust it so it looks like it was scanned (take photo parallel to plane of flyer).

[Necromancer]

Or perpendicular so you actually see the flyer. 

£70 for a Turbob with one game or a mere £15 for a Jaguar and two games.  Poor Jag Wire, nobody wanted you. 

[Punch]

"A LOT OF ITEMS IN THIS LEAFLET ARE COLLECTABLE LIMITED STOCK AND BECOMING RARE ITEMS"

telegames was right

[brightmidnight]

"A LOT OF ITEMS IN THIS LEAFLET ARE COLLECTABLE LIMITED STOCK AND BECOMING RARE ITEMS"

telegames was right

Damn right!  Telegames were great, I used them loads back in the day.  They always had an amazing amount of stock across all platforms and a really good service.

[Ex_Mosquito]

Here you go!

[Otaking]

Found this in my Mums attic earlier. It's a flyer from Telegames selling off a couple of bargains! £70 + game for a TG. The Jaguar is pretty cheap too

I just realised this confirms something I've discussed before on this forum. Note that in that old Telegames flyer that, that is a UK PAL "Turbografx" console not an imported USA "Turbografx-16".
Some on this forum have said there was never a UK PAL Turbografx console release, even I tiny unsuccessful one. But I've said there was an extremely limited (very unsuccessful) UK PAL Turbografx console release that was somehow linked to Telegames and this flyer confirms what I had remembered.

[esteban]

Found this in my Mums attic earlier. It's a flyer from Telegames selling off a couple of bargains! £70 + game for a TG. The Jaguar is pretty cheap too

I just realised this confirms something I've discussed before on this forum. Note that in that old Telegames flyer that, that is a UK PAL "Turbografx" console not an imported USA "Turbografx-16".
Some on this forum have said there was never a UK PAL Turbografx console release, even I tiny unsuccessful one. But I've said there was an extremely limited (very unsuccessful) UK PAL Turbografx console release that was somehow linked to Telegames and this flyer confirms what I had remembered.

So, UK PAL TG-16 existed

[imparanoic]

Here you go!

i actually purchased brand new coryoon from telegames in 1994 or 1995 for only 40 quid, but i lost the game in 1996 when i lend to a mate and forgot about it as i was doing my a level exams

obviously, from that moment onwards, i realised how expensive this game which i lost

[esteban]

Ex_Mosquito: I would love HIGH QUALITY scans, if possible. Email me the raw files. Or, I'll take raw images from your camera and clean them up myself

http://archives.tg-16.com/magazine_database.htm?col=main&val=telegames

Can we get a more precise date for the Telegames flyer? I used the Lynx game "3D Planar" as a guide... since it was released in summer of 2000... but that would be the *earliest*... and I didn't check the other "new releases" listed in the flyer.

I put "$" before "£" because I sort by price in that column... but I might find another solution.

[Vimtoman]

Yarr, but don't mind the ribbing.  You meant well. 

Done a browse and found it on his site

I have a physical copy so if he has a few duff pages I can scan it

[Ex_Mosquito]

Ex_Mosquito: I would love HIGH QUALITY scans, if possible. Email me the raw files. Or, I'll take raw images from your camera and clean them up myself

http://archives.tg-16.com/magazine_database.htm?col=main&val=telegames

Can we get a more precise date for the Telegames flyer? I used the Lynx game "3D Planar" as a guide... since it was released in summer of 2000... but that would be the *earliest*... and I didn't check the other "new releases" listed in the flyer.

I put "$" before "£" because I sort by price in that column... but I might find another solution.

Heya. I used the fax\scanner\phone thingy in work, I'm not sure if it scans higher than a 1meg file, I'll check tomorrow. Amazing website btw, amazing resource

[shubibiman]

Wow ! When does this flyer date from ?

Otaking, as far as I knew until I saw this flyer, I hadn't heard of an official release of the PAL Turbografx. The only thing I knew was that there were huge dead stocks of Pal TGX in France and in England. I still have no idea of when it was released.

This flyer might help have a clue.

What we can tell is that these PAL TGX where produced before the NEC logo changed, ie at the latest in early 1993.

Edit : ok, those "new" Lynx games helped me to find the info about the year this flyer was published : 2000.

Here is a pic of my PAL TGX :



The question is not "has the PAL TGX ever existed" : the answer is yes.
The question is : "Has it been released and if so, when ?"

The cables came in a box separated form the box of the system itself. There were two versions : one with an AC cable for England, one with an AC cable for continental Europe.

Here you go!