Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!laird From: laird@think.com (Laird Popkin) Subject: Re: lynx Message-ID: <1991Mar21.232704.23729@Think.COM> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA References: <269@eliza.edvvie.at> <15926@chaph.usc.edu> <1991Mar19.200450.21738@isc.rit.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 23:27:04 GMT In article <1991Mar19.200450.21738@isc.rit.edu> drp9500@isc.rit.edu (D.R. Paradis ) writes: >> >> Portable game system market so far: >> [stuff deleted] >> NEC TurboExpress $300+ Color, 1-2 players, accepts >> TurboGraphix-16 games > ^^^^ > $250 (tuner shown in ads is an extra >$150) > Actually, while NEC says that the _list_ price for the TurboExpress is $250, all of the major chains seem to be claiming that it lists for $299, and selling it for that (when they can get it). The tuner is another $90-100. The amazing things about the TE, to me, is that for $250-300 you get a TE, 6 batteries, and a skinny manual. No games to play, no transformer, no multi-player cable. For that much money, you would expect them to throw in the "accessories" necessory to use the thing. I guess they know that the only people who will buy the TE already own the TG16 anyway. For $99, the stripped down Lynx package is reasonable, purely to compete with the $89 GameBoy. But NEC's attitude with the TE isn't cool. They did the same thing with the TG16 for a while, too -- you would thing they'd learn that people like to be able to use what they buy. > >-- >************************************************************************ >* Just because I'm a film major | < Net-address > * >* doesn't mean I'm a Spielber-wanna-be....| * >* I'm a Lynch-wanna-be! | drp9500@ultb.isc.rit.edu * - Laird Popkin (internet: laird@think.com)