James Channel recently got hold of a small box that promised the latest Windows system, complete with a keyboard, mouse, and enough software to turn any living room into a home office. What arrived instead was a Famiclone, one of the countless unauthorized copies of Nintendo’s original Family Computer that flooded markets across Asia and […]
Sierra On-Line spent most of the 1990s shipping adventure games with names like King’s Quest and Space Quest, then spent one Christmas trying to sell the board those games would run on. Screamin’ 3D reached stores in November 1996 at a suggested price of $199, the only graphics card the Oakhurst studio ever put its […]
Eternal Electronics spent a while looking for a ClearTunes handheld before one finally reached the bench. Commissary sheets from the early 2010s listed it next to socks and typewriters, a small plastic game machine built for jails and prisons rather than a store shelf. ClearTunes already supplied those facilities with radios, alarm clocks, and flat […]
Sir Alex Ferguson sold a Man Utd star despite receiving threatening letters from fans (Photo: Getty) Sir Alex Ferguson has opened up on the decision to let one Manchester United player go despite receiving threatening letters from fans over the transfer. The legendary United manager was renowned for his transfer acumen during his 27 years […]
Micah Richards believes Chelsea have sold an ‘absolutely amazing’ player (Photo: YouTube) Micah Richards has backed one of the players sold by Chelsea last summer to become ‘one of the top strikers in Europe’. There was great upheaval at Stamford Bridge over the summer as Xabi Alonso rebuilt the squad, with a whopping 20 players […]
Nintendo almost never hands another company the keys to its hardware. In July 1986 Sharp walked out of that arrangement with a Japan-only console that stuffed a Family Computer and a Family Computer Disk System into one box and charged ¥32,000 for the privilege, more than buying both Nintendo units separately. Sharp already had a […]
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