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@RetroTech the TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine are some of my all-time favorite systems! For many years I had a website called TurboGrafx-16.com that was a sister-site to this one. I made the mistake one year of forgetting to renew the domain and I lost my entire site. It was terrible. -_- Someone created a site mirror of it though, which is still available here: http://turbo.emuunlim.org/systems.htm Even though I designed the TurboGrafx site almost 15 years ago I'd still like to get it back online. We'll see.. So glad to see so much enthusiasm on this site for the TurboGrafx & PC Engine though!

Here's another good one. This time a little later, Summer 2001. Notice the Sega Dreamcast Sega Sports bundle, the Nintendo 64 controllers, the PS2 systems in the blue boxes and the Gran Turismo 3 bundle in the red, the silver-boxed PSone systems, and the GameBoy Advances.

Thinking back to good times at Kay-Bee Toy Stores in the mall. My first Atari came from Sears, but almost every game I ever bought for Atari, Nintendo, all the way up through Dreamcast, most often came from Kay-Bee in our local mall. It's always fun to share these memories this time of year. Hope you guys have some fond Kay-Bee memories too! http://youtu.be/cB_cAK8CbXA Kay-Bee Toy Stores Commercial for Atari Games and Systems (1986)

Lol I belive I have those HuCards

Did anybody else have a Speak & Spell growing up? Texas Instruments found a tremendously clever use of their speech synthesis chip. The Speak & Spell was introduced in June, 1978 at the Summer CES, making it one of the very first handheld electronic devices with a visual display. Speak & Spell enjoyed a very similar lifespan to that of the Atari 2600, retailing from 1978-1992.

That's awesome greenween! Do you have Mat Mania for your 7800?

Sounds like a cool game and an awesome weekend!

Awesome photos Greenween! Have you had a chance to play the game with anybody yet?

Looking forward to those pics greenween

I've never played Dark Tower, but looking at the box it says "A fantasy adventure born of electronic wizardry" and it certainly looks like the tower would light up. Seems like this would be a great game to try out sometime.

Interesting article Zontar, thanks for sharing! All these years later the Lynx is still my favorite handheld for all the right reasons.

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