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Scans of Argos (UK catalogue company) catalogues from 1974 - 1999: https://archive.org/search.php?query=retromash+argos

Did you know that the Master System could be had for as little as £34.50 in early 1995? https://archive.org/stream/issuu_retromash_argossuperstore-1995-springsummer-l#p...

Kroc wrote

Did you know that the Master System could be had for as little as £34.50 in early 1995?

I didn't even know they were still sold back then!

Clearing old stock perhaps? It looks like the units being sold in 1995 were older SMS2s with Alex Kidd built in. A year earlier they were selling the newer machines with Sonic 1.

Also spotted in the 1994 catalogue: a picture of the rare "Master System II" variant of Sonic 2.

You can play the SMS if you're 6, but you gotta be 8 to play the GG or 10 to play the MD. :D

RetroSpark wrote

Also spotted in the 1994 catalogue: a picture of the rare "Master System II" variant of Sonic 2.

And in 1993, "Master System II" variants of Batman Returns and Taz-Mania (as previously noted here).

RetroSpark wrote

Clearing old stock perhaps? It looks like the units being sold in 1995 were older SMS2s with Alex Kidd built in.

Could also be stock being bought back in from Europe and resold in the UK where the market was strong.

Here, there is a different cover for the jungle book

https://issuu.com/retromash/docs/argossuperstore-1994-springsummer_3beffdaba92e2...

Note that the cover for game gear jurassic park is also different but identical to the one I had found in a french catalog ( http://www.smspower.org/forums/15850-OldFrenchSupermarketCatalogsAndOthersWithSe... )

Can someone attach the relevant pages here, with covers? I'd like to add them to our scans too.

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Kroc Joined: 08 Dec 2013 Posts: 200	Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 10:46 pm
Kroc Joined: 08 Dec 2013 Posts: 200	Scans of Argos (UK catalogue company) catalogues from 1974 - 1999: https://archive.org/search.php?query=retromash+argos Did you know that the Master System could be had for as little as £34.50 in early 1995? https://archive.org/stream/issuu_retromash_argossuperstore-1995-springsummer-l#p...

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 3828 Location: Stockholm, Sweden	Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 7:59 am
	Kroc wrote Did you know that the Master System could be had for as little as £34.50 in early 1995? I didn't even know they were still sold back then!

RetroSpark Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 488 Location: Melbourne, Australia	Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 12:13 pm Last edited by RetroSpark on Wed May 31, 2017 3:00 pm; edited 1 time in total
	Clearing old stock perhaps? It looks like the units being sold in 1995 were older SMS2s with Alex Kidd built in. A year earlier they were selling the newer machines with Sonic 1. Also spotted in the 1994 catalogue: a picture of the rare "Master System II" variant of Sonic 2.

KingMike Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 512	Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 2:40 pm
KingMike Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 512	You can play the SMS if you're 6, but you gotta be 8 to play the GG or 10 to play the MD. :D

RetroSpark Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 488 Location: Melbourne, Australia	Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 3:17 pm
	RetroSpark wrote Also spotted in the 1994 catalogue: a picture of the rare "Master System II" variant of Sonic 2. And in 1993, "Master System II" variants of Batman Returns and Taz-Mania (as previously noted here).

Kroc Joined: 08 Dec 2013 Posts: 200	Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 3:42 pm
Kroc Joined: 08 Dec 2013 Posts: 200	RetroSpark wrote Clearing old stock perhaps? It looks like the units being sold in 1995 were older SMS2s with Alex Kidd built in. Could also be stock being bought back in from Europe and resold in the UK where the market was strong.

Kenneth Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 739 Location: Lyon, France	Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 11:00 am
	Here, there is a different cover for the jungle book https://issuu.com/retromash/docs/argossuperstore-1994-springsummer_3beffdaba92e2... Note that the cover for game gear jurassic park is also different but identical to the one I had found in a french catalog ( http://www.smspower.org/forums/15850-OldFrenchSupermarketCatalogsAndOthersWithSe... )

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14745 Location: London	Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 11:24 am
	Can someone attach the relevant pages here, with covers? I'd like to add them to our scans too.

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