Why would anyone try to convince someone of the magnificence of the PCE and
not use visual aids? Kinda pointless - like racing cars without fuel or nudity free soft-core porn.
Besides listing the high points of the library (specifically the genres/titles the noob is interested in), I don't think there's many
facts that would convince anyone to purchase a PCE.
me: The PCE was the first console to use CDs!
noob: Thanks for the history lesson, professor.
me: The disc games are region free and the cartridges are thin little cards!
noob: Neat, though hardly a reason to buy something.
me: Yeah, well... its library is more than 800 titles strong!
noob: The ZX Spectrum has far more. Want one?
me: Not really.
noob: Didn't think so.
me: It has a palette of 512 colors, up to 512x242 resolution, and can toss 64 sprites on screen at a time!
noob: The Jaguar beats that quite handily. Should I get one of those instead?
me: Er... that's probably not a good idea.
noob: Don't you have any screen shots or something?
me: Nope - not allowed. Hey, you like *insert list of noob's favorite arcade titles*, don't you? It has ports of those games.
noob: That's nice, but aren't arcade perfect ports of most of those available on newer consoles?
me: Umm... yeah, I guess, but it has *insert list of games in noob's preferred genre* that you can't get anywhere else.
noob: Good, now we're getting somewhere. Are they fun?
me: Sorry - that's opinion, not fact. Just go buy one, ya douchebag.