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Below is another very early ad for the PCE's games lineup, showing an early vehicle design for Victory Run; Jungle King, transforming gradually into Legendary Axe; and Dynamite Ball, a pinball game unreleased in such a form. It probably became Alien Crush, despite bearing an uncanny similarity to the also-unreleased Time Cruise. (Thanks to the Game ad Museum for this pic!) |
The Kung Fu shown at the PCE announcement looks identical to the released version, except the "Hudson Soft" font is different. Paris-Dakar Rally, also demonstrated, looks very close to the final Victory Run, except for missing parts wear indicators, and your vehicle, of course. Good thing Hudson wised up and dumped the dumpy-looking rally truck for the final smooth rally car (a Porsche?). But -- OOPS! -- the cover art for the Japanese Victory Run still shows the truck, doesn't it? |
Below is another early ad for the PCE, showing the
prototype control pad, as well as some early titles as above. |
What's fun to note is the sheer number of useless slogans that NEC has bukkake'd all over this ad:
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All on a single page! This type of slogan-making was (still is!) endemic to Japanese companies in the bubble era, when ostentatious purchases of baseball teams and F-1 crews raised one's status more than delivering a solid, well-thought-out product cheaply. NEC must have been a horrible company to work for, considering how much it boasted and followed such groupthink. | |||||
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Here's the text from the Famimaga article. You can use Excite to translate it to English, more or less.
スクープ! 10月中旬発売予定 |
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スーパーファミコンだなんだとウワサのとびかう中、PC88シリーズなどでおなじみのNECからゲームマシンか登場! 超先取りのファミマガが、気になる詳細をスクープだ!! |
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これで5人分コントローラがつなげちゃう“マルチタップ”(2480円) 速射もついてる別売りの“ターボパッド”も本体と同時発売(2680円) |
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ピーシーエンジン生まれたてのニューゲームたち! NECの新型ゲーム機 ピーシーエンジン登場! |
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