TresHombres

My mom would rather believe that I was a bratty kid, which in reality I never really was any more than your average kid, then to believe he duped her into getting a game for himself, and also the fact that she was dumb enough in the first place to hand my brother her credit card. I loved my brother but he was just the kind of guy that would find some crazy story about how he helped a woman deliver a baby on the side of the road and how he just had to pay for her cab ride to the hospital, and all he had was the credit card you very foolishly let him have, and that's why you are now $300 over your limit

And the best part...he pops Golf in, plays 3 rounds, says "This sucks" and never plays it again. So now I'm the proud owner of Golf, and also 2 weeks of grounding for being at fault for this, even though I was not at fault in any way at all, ha.

"In 1991, it emerged senior executive James Maybury had been diverting revenue to fund a museum he intended to open in Dracut, MA." Well, that's one way to bankrupt a company, haha.

Kit it is so funny that you say this. My parents sound like your parents. Going to a toy store was already a slim chance, but travelling more than 10 minutes to one, no way, haha. But then in 1989 I convinced my brother to drive me there to buy Super Mario Bros. 2. After a year of owning a NES and only a few games (Mario, Zelda, Tyson, Ice Hockey, and Excitebike) my parents finally said it was ok to get a new game. So my mom gave him the one sole credit card they had. It was this huge deal. So we get there, and as I'm looking for SMB2, he's calling my mom from a payphone asking her if he can get a game, too. She says no, so he tries to convince me to buy Golf instead. GOLF. So I said no way no how. No Golf. Eventually...he bought both. At home he tells my mom "He made me buy both" and I got in trouble. Haha. Children's Palace was also called Child World in other areas of the US. Their logo was a panda bear. It was a cool store that it indeed looked like a castle inside of a warehouse. They must have had a gentleman's no-compete agreement with TRU because as soon as Children went bankrupt TRU came swooping in to our area.

Our Toys R Us was close to an hour away I think Children's Palace had a lockdown on our area. As soon as they folded here in about 1992-1993, Toys R Us immediately arrived here.

This also reminds me, I asked my sister to buy me the newest issue of GamePro. So she comes home and says Matt I'm not mad but these magazines are just too expensive. And I thought well yeah I guess to her, $3.95 is a lot to spend on something I'll read a few times and throw away. But then I see that she has the GamePro Guide To Street Fighter II Turbo haha. She happened to be at Blockbuster, saw the GamePro logo on something, and bought it. Blockbuster didn't have any issues of GamePro, just their strategy guides. It was like $12, which would be like $25 in 2024 money! That said I still have the guide 30 years later, so it was worth it.

You might be on to something. I never saw the earlier issues of GP at our news stands or magazine sections in department stores or grocery stores. But they were all over Toys R Us and Children's Palace. Our KayBee (KB) Toy Store carried EGM only for the first year, it was the only place you could really get EGM in 1989 at retail in our area.

*has yet to find a way

Yes you can see this is a huge difference in quality. And it is good for a magazine like this because IIRC they used VERY cheap paper stock, even cheaper than other cheap paper mags. And did anyone else think that the ink they used in this mag made it smell bad? Maybe it was the chemicals in the paper? GamePro in the summer of 1994 in particular had a very odd scent. The paper quality seemed the same as their prior releases, so I always assumed if a mag smelled bad it was the ink. So what I am saying is be thankful as fastidious and exacting as Kitsune is that he did not find a way to synthesize the odor of these magazines as well