Ahh, that's really great. A trip down memory lane and something unique to the region. Good old van der Merwe, always ready when the situation calls for it.
Only R35... I seem to recall, in 1992 I think, game carts costing around... R100? For bigger games like SMB3. I think my brother got a Mickey Mouse game which was closer to R40. I could be making this up - it was over 20 years ago! I've seen ads which say games were from R20 and up.
Though surely that's a Famicom cartridge?
I had a Famicom clone as a kid (a couple, since the first broke), like most kids in the South Africa in the early 1990s. Plus a multicart with 32 games on it - and no duplicates or hacks! Those earlier bootlegs were really good quality. Later bootlegs turned the clone system into a "NES on a chip" and the quality went down, and the multicarts had the games hacked a lot of the time.
Annoyingly my dad gave it all away when I upgraded to a SNES years later.
Did you ever see the advert for the
Reggie's Entertainment System?http://www.youtube.com/embed/pq5rH4LESDoEDIT:
Here's a question for you, speaking nostalgically.
Do you happen to have any old MNet TV guides from around when they started up until 1994/1995 or so? Those little booklets they produced, with the yellow text columns showing the TV listings? And preceding these would be all the films from that month.
It sounds silly, but I watched a lot of MNet growing up, and enjoyed leafing through the booklet each month. So have a lot of memories of that. We only had one channel in the house, but it was always enough. Today I've got satellite with hundreds of channels and none of them seem any good.
I've always wanted to get hold of an old issue, to leaf through again, but obviously that's almost impossible. Who would keep old TV guides? It's not exactly like you can buy them on eBay!
If you somehow happen to have an old issue, even a mouldy one lying in the garage for the last two decades, I'd love to have it. I could paypal you the postage to send it to France, if you have PayPal. I'd just like one issue to look through, to stir up some old memories.