"...what makes this jacket so unusual is the HUGE 15 inch wide by 12 inch tall EMBROIDERED Systems patch featuring Mario the Plumber and Sonic the Hedgehog.
It's nice that he called Mario "Mario the Plumber". It implies that Nintendo copied SEGA and that Mario isn't famous enough to just be called Mario. This is what we should all tell our children, if any of us are ever lucky enough to be allowed to have sex and the recipient of the sex is willing to follow through with it.
The correct spelling of "centre" suggests this could have originated in PAL territories, although the use of "Genesis" suggests otherwise. Which country called the Mega Drive the Genesis but also spells centre centre? Or is it just a manufacturing error? We're on a knife-edge!
We would very much like to hear from any former employees of the Hi-Tech Game Centre. Hopefully it was based in a medium-sized Northern shopping centre and the sign and shuttered-closed shop front are still visible.
A site about games and game paraphernalia and how nothing's as good as we remember it, probably because we used to inhabit a FANTASY WORLD.
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Some updates weren't universally hated by the entire world within seconds of being uploaded.
1. The Animal Crossing Wild World mega-feature and public-service review
2. Sonic CD - screenshot parade
3. Cream The Rabbit sexual diagrams
4. OutRun2 screenshot-taking guide for the benefit of inept journalists
5. The personal UKR SEGA Toys Homestar planetarium review
6. Trying to buy an Xbox 360 in London
7. (STILL) THE MOST AMAZING PROMOTIONAL PHOTOGRAPH OF ALL TIME
8. A trip to GamesMaster (in Peckham)
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It came with the template. Maybe in 2014 we'll jump on board the Twitter train and put that in here. Or a radio. That'd be nice.
These were gang threads. Kinda like The Warriors. Only shit.
Or just an arcade, because I doubt any independent games shop would make staff wear this monstrosity.
Maybe an outdoor arcade, hence the jacket being emblazoned with the logo rather than the standard electric blue polo shirt.
Or maybe...oh wait, I've just realised that I lost interest shortly after beginning.
- Ultra shit drawings of Mario and Sonic.
- Hi-Tech being written on it, as the standard isn't even low-tech. (If you were alive during the mid 80s and had Hi-Tec trainers you'd understand).
- The Centre/Genesis mismatch.
- 3DO being on it.
It's the ultimate low rent piss take. Shepherds Bush market fakery in all it's depressing wonder.
Canada?
I was thinking it might be Canadian, too.
http://www.communityguide.com.au/community.cfm?/queensland/profile/computerselectrical/computervideogames/384457/
How about California?
http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Hi.Tech.Game.Centre.661-255-5669
http://winstonsalem.citysearch.com/profile/6143445/greensboro_nc/atlantic_mobile_home_rv_supply.html
wv: vialikar someone who licks... cheap knock off viagra? ... thats weak
Still, it could be worse. If the jacket was made today it would probably have fucking Sackboy on it.
I can (and am) imagine the harsh dressing down the in-house designer got for the oversight which ultimately was blamed for the general lack of attention to detail which lead to the Ipswitch Hi-Tech Game Centre going into liquidation in late 1994.
Mario is give peace symbol like does he at end of every level Super World Of Mario on SuperNintendo which would have be Mario game of choice when jacket made. Comrade.