Superguns hit the mainstream

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Now there's someone desperate for an article...
 
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There were ads in EGM 25 years ago for superguns so I'm not sure how this is anything "new"....
 
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From Internet lore, one of the first, if not the first, superguns was a product called "The Super Gun." Apparently it became a generic term like Kleenex or Xacto.
 
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bubba966 said:
There were ads in EGM 25 years ago for superguns so I'm not sure how this is anything "new"....
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didn't know superguns were around that long.the first time i ever heard of one was around 04.
 
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bogard said:
didn't know superguns were around that long.the first time i ever heard of one was around 04.
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The mail order game shops that ran ads towards the back of EGM and such back then would list them for sale. They were quite expensive as i recall. I used to look at em when I'd dream of a SGFX or an AES (and I did order an AES from one of those companies at the end of '91).
 
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MAS made probably the most popular supergun in the US, it was around 93/94 when I first heard about them. NCS used to sell some Japanese superguns and PCBs back then when they were mainly a console copier company.
 
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bogard said:
didn't know superguns were around that long.the first time i ever heard of one was around 04.
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In my experience, stuff generally exists before I hear about it.
 
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madman said:
You must not be familiar with 90's vaporware.
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I can't hear you over the sound of me playing Duke Nukem Forever... they only released it so it stopped being vaporware, sorry excuse for a game :-/

Anyway, point taken.
 
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bogard said:
didn't know superguns were around that long.the first time i ever heard of one was around 04.
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They sold these in game stores back when street fighter 2 first came out (early 90s). Obviously they were not cheap but for over a year it was the only way to play sf2 at home. I was only 12 at the time and didn't understand what I was looking at till later on (big kids were hogging it) :-/
 
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I don't think I'd label a niche product that costs $649.95 + shipping mainstream.....
 
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Discussion closed for comments, there goes my chance to troll oh well.
 
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normies will never spend that much cash for a single arcade game as long as there exists emulation for utablets and robophones.

Want to bring the arcade to life on your big screen for normies? invent a cradle for the tablet that puts it on a big screen and connects to an arcade style controller and sell it for under $200.
 
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