JANET LOWRY’S HARD DRIVE, FOR COMPUTER BUFFS
Breaking local news from 1996, courtesy of a reader who (a) must’ve been having a bit of a clearout probably after a messy divorce brought on by his incessant gaming habits, and (b) still has access to a scanner. It’s not the top one. Even in 1996, mundane pieces about secondhand goods were deemed more interesting than SEGA news.
Well done, Janet Lowry, for producing an entirely SEGA-related games column. You’d think the SEGA Saturn was winning if you only got your gaming news from the Irvine Herald in 1996.
“Some time ago I sent you an image of my curtains. I saw that you thoroughly enjoyed them. So now I bring you an article from my local newspaper, almost entirely SEGA related. It dates from 1996, damn that’s nostalgic! And it makes me feel old. It was supposed to be a weekly thing, but as you can see its importance was less than that of an article headlined ‘Thrift Shop Seeks Goods’, it soon disappeared. How did I obtain this magnificent piece of history I hear you ask, through work of course, a ‘Time Traveling Adventurer’ to be exact. Lots of Love” – SolidGoldChimp.
filed in HISTORY on Jun.11, 2010
June 11th, 2010 on 11:23 am
What is this ‘world-wide net’ and how do I connect to it?
Good call on the other (curtains) post though, guessing that a new Golden Axe would be ‘inevitably shite’. How on earth could you have known that way back then? Are you one of those psychotic-types?
June 11th, 2010 on 2:50 pm
If that review of Phantasy Star IV had been written today it would read – “…the final episode in the hugely successful RPG saga from Sega”. These days kids don’t know about words like enormously. They’re all about ‘hugely’. Hugely this, hugely that. Bloody kids with their walkmans turned up so loud you can hear it coming through their earpieces.
June 12th, 2010 on 1:49 am
Since when has rainbow cottage nursery fundraisers been UR:R news?? Complete waste of an update.
June 12th, 2010 on 4:15 am
I wonder what kind of woman named ‘Janet’ could love Sega Games…
It was probably a pen name to stimulate the readers’ fantasies.
Mmmhhhh…. “Janet”….