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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion => Topic started by: SGX Engine on November 08, 2015, 08:34:33 PM
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http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1989/12/17/page/89/article/display-ad-84-no-title
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1989/12/20/page/68/article/display-ad-76-no-title
:mrgreen:
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Is this on DoxPhile?
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I have no idea, not very familiar with DoxPhile.
I was trying to see if I could find a picture of any of the mail-in offers for a free game that came with the TurboGrafx-16, especially in 1990 when I got mine. I happened upon those Chicago Tribune ads on Google instead.
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Oh HEY, dude, I need your help for a bit of history!!!!!
Can you access archives like that for the Chicago Sun Times too ?? Please say yes!!! :)
It's my story as to how I even became a turbo fan! If I had never won this contest, I likely would've ignored the system because affording the NES and later the SNES was already much for a kid back then collecting cash from birthday and Christmas cards to save up for such purchases.
Here's the whole story:
http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=4625.msg218974#msg218974
And repeated, edited a little better:
http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=17206.msg358433#msg358433
(http://www.ysutopia.net/special/BloodyWolf.jpg)
So, I need the archive for Chicago Sun Times on August 19, 1990. It was the Sunday edition of the paper.
Can this be accessed ?? As you can see, I only have the top portion of the 750 Turbo Titans contest that won me a TG-16 system with Bloody Wolf and Keith Courage. I've wanted and searched for the whole page so I can have all the NES questions you had to answer correctly to have won the system!
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I'm looking for it, but the Chicago Sun-Times archives only go back to 1997.
http://wssp.suntimes.com/search-archive/
There is also a set of Chicago Sun-Times archives on highbeam.com - You might want to look here (http://www.highbeam.com/publications/chicago-sun-times-p392330/jul-sep-1990) though it seems to only have text, not image archives.
Last resort might be:
https://www.chipublib.org/resources-types/newspaper/
but you need a Chicago public library card, physical or electronic, to access.
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Last resort might be:
https://www.chipublib.org/resources-types/newspaper/
but you need a Chicago public library card, physical or electronic, to access.
Ah, so I had access to some archive with my library account (I thought that was physically possible at some location, didn't know they made stuff available online till now though). Yeah, I just logged in and searched, I found August 19, 1990, but like highbeam.com, they have only archived textual articles! Damn, so close to finally finding it!!!!! I tried searching under "contest," but that's only one find and it's not it... The ads were not that important to them to archive... :/
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Susie Scribbles was $119.99? Daaaaamn.
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Pretty cool, Thanks for sharing. Cheers!!!
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Nice dig man!
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I LOVE THIS!
Nullity and I need to document these sort of ads...I have never seen newspaper ads like this!
GREAT FIND!
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The only thing I want to know is if that $50 Rebait offer is still good for the holidays.
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Also found this in EGM issue 3:
(http://i.imgur.com/fgbKbvc.jpg)
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http://archives.tg-16.com/EGM_1989_07.htm
Also found this in EGM issue 3:
(http://i.imgur.com/fgbKbvc.jpg)
You will enjoy the whole page, but this will jump to the contest in your scan...
http://archives.tg-16.com/EGM_1989_07.htm#Win_TG-16
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Revving this thread because I just realized that I paid $50 too much for TG-16 when I bought it.
This was a crazy good deal.
I don't know why I thought this advertisement was from later ('90-'91), but I wish I had heard of this promotion (assuming it was available to me).
I know... I should let it go... The past is the past.
$50.
DAMN.
Ok.
I will be OK.
Breathe...
REQUEST: Of anyone else has links to newspaper articles/ads (something I have spent very little time pursuing), please post your finds! Thank you.
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Susie Scribbles was $119.99? Daaaaamn.
I am glad I was not the only person with this reaction. That is one pricey bitch.
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Susie Scribbles was $119.99? Daaaaamn.
I am glad I was not the only person with this reaction. That is one pricey bitch.
Jeezus!
$$$
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this is all awesome stuff!
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Ah, so I had access to some archive with my library account (I thought physically that was possible at some location, didn't know they made stuff available online till now though). Yeah, I just logged in and searched, I found August 19, 1990, but like highbeam.com, they have only archived textual articles! Damn, so close to finally finding it!!!!! I tried searching under "contest," but that's only one find and it's not it... The ads were not that important to them to archive... :/
EDIT: I'm a dumbass, wrong paper. Sorry.