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Retro Games instore Promo circa 1986 (PART 3)

Here’s part 3, with more dodgy accents and also rans. Note the voiceover artist seems to have a moment of clarity and just give up halfway through the promo for ‘Elite’. Games featured : Strikeforce Harrier (Mirrorsoft) Zyto (Rabbit) Highrise Horror (Rabbit) Scarabaeus (Ariolasoft) Scalextric (Leisure Genius) Doriath (Rabbit) The Great Fire of London (Rabbit) [...]

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Retro Games instore Promo circa 1986 (PART 2)

Another re-upload from my previous nuked account, although this is a *much* better quality encode from the original. The second installation of bits from a promo tape from a UK computer gaming store circa 1986. Now with even more dodgy accents and dated, expensive software. Yes, ‘Fleet Street’ sure does look like something you’d pay [...]

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Retro Games instore Promo circa 1986 (PART 1)

I originally encoded these from the VHS tapes, so the bits and pieces floating around the web are from my copies. Here’s a selection from a tape of video games promos from 1986, replete with accents and impersonations that have to be heard to be believed! The Young Ones clip is jaw-droppingly awful. These tapes [...]

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