And how about that Mega PC, eh? At a thousand pounds/four billion dollars on its 1993 release, it’s hard to credit that anyone who paid for one boasted the fundamentals of human decency. After considerable research (incorporating half-recalled episodes of Saved By The Bell and making stuff up), it emerges that computers in the early-to-mid 1990s were glorified calculators, also capable of rudimentary word processing aided by the abhorrence of ClipArt and an optional screensaver of three-dimensional pipes taking form from nothingness with the later ability to download a single sample of static pornography over a 13-hour period.
Those with money to burn and seats booked in the more disgustingly well-furnished corners of hell bought the privilege of playing their Mega Drive games on a PC monitor, ever confident that should the moment ever arrive when, smack bang in the middle of a go on Sonic The Hedgehog (as pictured) they needed to insert a picture of a leaping stick-figure priest under a garish heading written in Comic Sans MS, they’d be able to do so without ever leaving the multicolor madness of Aquatic Zone Act 2.
Anyway, it’s basically a computer and a Mega Drive. I like the white controller, but that’s it. Everything else about it makes my mind cry. A thousand pounds. Lordy.
