The SG ProPad is actually a pretty decent 3rd party six button pad. Plus it has the programmable ability to use macros and stuff.
Yup. More than just pretty decent, imo.
BTW, I love finding receipts from purchases back in the day. Most of them still hold up since they were actually printed on paper with ink instead of that weird thermal crap they do now.
I love finding those as well.
One of mine has a bit of a weird/interesting story to it.
So last year I found an Atari Jaguar system box. Empty box except for some inserts.
The seller mentioned that this was for the original Jaguar system his dad had bought from the States all those years ago. And that also a Jaguar game was bought with it at that time. He said he still had the receipt to that purchase, which he included when I bought the box.
Now he swears this was for the console itself ($149.99) and one game ($59.95).
He didn't recall what that game was.
But look at the date on that receipt. As far as I know, the Jaguar system was only released later that same year. And certainly no Jaguar games were even out that early in '93, right?
But as I say, the dude is adamant that this was indeed the purchase receipt for the console and a game.
Quite strange.
The only related Jaguar info I could find close enough to that time period is the following:
December, 1992 - Atari announced the Jag will be cartridge-based & released Summer 1993 for $150.
So, by some remote chance, were some units released incredibly early to stores?
Now from researching it I know that they had test markets in California earlier in 1993, and there were people who bought theirs in June of that year. But January is bizarre.
The interesting thing is though that from speaking online to a guy that had many years ago worked at a Software ETC, he most definitely assures me that 611 on the receipt indicates the Jaguar code, and games started at 7951. So the game was probably Trevor McFur.
That still doesn't explain that bizarre January '93 date, though.
So yeah, just a story I thought to share wrt an old receipt.