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- The Totally Non-Serious Bit
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- Hey dudes,if like me you happened to notice the excellent Sega Megadrive
- on the shelves in computer land,but then noticed that the fuckin' games
- were 30-60 quid (on average) and didn't know what the hell to do then
- look no further dudes!
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- Sega Megadrive
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- Irish prices: Shop
- 139.99 Premiere Computers
- 149.99 Peats World of Electronics
- 159.99 Virgin Megastore
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- Info on Megadrives sold in:
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- Premiere Computers
- The megadrive sold here is a japanese import,not however a cheapo grey
- import.It looks almost identical to the Uk version,well except for the
- japanese writing on the box.There should be no problems with resoution
- on a standard TV,however some Japanese or US games will only run on a
- 60hz screen.If you're TV is only a 50hz model the screen will jump and
- flicker,in short it will be impossible to see whats on the screen if this
- happens so make sure you're TV is a nice new model (Phillips TV's are
- cool).If you have an older TV don't worry because I think you can buy a
- lovely gadget from KC Games in the UK for 25 pounds sterling,the bad
- thing about this is it invalidates you're warranty (altogether now---
- "Aw Shit!").In Premiere Computers you don't get a single game with the
- Megadrive,but for 169.99 you get a game which is picked by the actual
- shop!!!All in all the machine sold here is an excellent buy as it runs
- UK,US and Japanese cartridges.I heard a strange rumour that the Japanese
- Megadrive sold here actually translates the Japanese text into English,
- but I can't be sure....
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- Peats World Of Electronics
- The Megadrive sold here is a standard UK version with Altered Beast thrown
- in,Japanese or US games will not work on this unless a special adaptor
- costing twenty odd pounds is bought.
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- Virgin Megastore
- Again a standard UK machine which will not run Jappo or American games.
- Sonic The Hedgehog is thrown into the package and it is rumoured that
- Altered Beast is in there as well.Good value with the games and Sonic is
- brilliant.
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- The boring techy bit
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- The Megadrive has a pallette of only 512 colours but can show an amazing
- 64 colours on screen at once!The actual game carts are 512k but can go
- as high as 1,536k.The joypads are cool looking and fit well into your
- hand (oi!Stop thinking about that!) they also have 3 different buttons.
- The Powerstick can be bought for approx 39.99.The MD can run Master System
- games with the help of the powerbase converter (29.99 sterling) but hey,
- who'd be bothered with crappy Master System carts?The CPU is a Motorola
- 68000,supported by custom chips and a Zilog Z80 used by the Powerbase.The
- graphics chip offers a screen resolution of 320x240 pixels.The amazing
- stereo sound has to be heard to be believed,offering 12 sound channels
- providing even better sound than Creed's 4 sound channel music (er, only
- just dude!).
-
- Well thats it for now about the Megadrive,shit I forgot to mention the
- Mega-CD.Well more about the Mega-CD next ish!
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- Typed as always by,
- The Immortal...Peter!
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- As this is my first article for this issue of Amnesia I suppose I'll end
- it with some greetz."L8ter dudez!" (quote Barry).
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- Greets to:
- Gazz man himself ----- Gazzer
- Captain Primus ----- Ed
- The Zeditor ----- Zed
- Sys op,sorry system operator ----- Green Beret
- The old tripper ----- Creed
- Allah,my God..... ----- Marvel
- AD+D is the true way!! ----- Merlin
- Cool Cfx dude ----- Arc
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- Shit I'm sure I forgot someone!!
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