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I loved my Mega Drive, but the SNES made me cheat on it. Back in the day, consoles were expensive and money was hard to come by, so many of my friends had a single games machine, and I was no exception. I loved Sega’s Mega Drive, but when I saw those early screenshots of Super Mario World and F-Zero, I knew that I also needed to own Nintendo’s console somehow. I wouldn’t actually get a machine until late 1991 and the system I plumped for was the US version, mainly because there were no Super Famicoms in stock at the Video Game Centre.

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