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Post by Melanogaster on Nov 12, 2007 23:50:27 GMT
Heh, thought I would share this with the people in here: It's a picture taken at a big department store of the old days, in Brazil; can't precise the date but it's probably in the early 90s. I guess some people would love a couple of minutes and a huge bag in there now, huh?
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Post by ronclon on Nov 13, 2007 2:38:50 GMT
Sweet.
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Post by rupert on Nov 13, 2007 8:06:00 GMT
Fantastic! we need more stuff like this. Where did you find the picture?
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Post by Melanogaster on Nov 13, 2007 20:14:51 GMT
It's from a blog dedicated to that department store (Mesbla). It's nothing SMS specific and it's in Portuguese, but anyway, the link is mesbla.blogspot.com/. I hadn't seen that but we have a date on the comment: Christmas, 1993. I saved the picture for archiving purposes, but the one from the blog is slightly bigger -- PhotoBucket resizes whatever image bigger than 1024x768, I guess.
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Post by Stan on Nov 16, 2007 1:36:26 GMT
I wish I could find some pictures like that from the US. Shows you how popular it was there, that place is freaking stocked. I don't seem to remember most toy stores here even having that many NES units for the most part.
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Post by Melanogaster on Nov 16, 2007 2:21:25 GMT
The picture also makes me wonder about the market the SMS had in here... Renting games was something extremely common back then; almost all gamers from that time used to rent a handful of games every weekend. But even on '93, game stocks like the one on the picture wouldn't last more than a few days -- meaning that people used to buy a lot of cartridges, too. In other words, the SMS was still blowing the competition out. On a side note, I wish I could get my hands on a copy of that American Baseball over there. And a Submarine Attack one wouldn't hurt either.
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Post by andyryals on Nov 16, 2007 13:02:00 GMT
Man that picture takes me back to when 8bit ruled!
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Post by Stan on Nov 17, 2007 15:42:02 GMT
There's that damn joystick in the box too, taunting me. I wish those damn Brazilians wouldn't have been so unkind to their boxes.
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