Ep.28 r1 — Renegade — 14 October 1987

Before any review scores, a quick toys and tech beat.

The Toy Retailers Association name Sylvanian Families from Tomy as nineteen eighty-seven Toy of the Year.

First win start of a long reign, little woodland houses and figures living on bedroom shelves all winter.

Tiny rabbits paying rent is such an eighty-seven story.

Toys R Us shelves were full of those boxed families, and they somehow beat the louder plastic toys for the official prize.

Tech line of the month fits perfectly.

The Amiga five hundred, uh, arrived in Britain in October eighty-seven with a four hundred and ninety-nine pound list price.

Sixteen-bit color on the high street, while Renegade still emptied the eight-bit racks.

Half a grand for that machine is a Christmas conversation starter and a half.

Grown-ups heard richer graphics, kids heard arcade-looking games, and the counter staff heard the drawer slam shut.

Shop stickers next, drawn from Spectrum Computing notes and that autumn's magazine ads, uh, converted with the Bank of England method.

Renegade on Spectrum cassette was seven ninety-five, about twenty-five pounds, uh, now.

Uh, sixty-four or Amstrad cassette sat at eight ninety-five, still roughly twenty-five today.

Twenty-five pounds modern money for one beat 'em up still stings when you remember paper round maths.

How did the disc editions and the machines themselves sticker? Because that Amiga figure is lodged behind my eyes.

eyes.Sixty-four disk was twelve ninety-five, about forty now.

Amstrad disk was fourteen ninety-five, roughly, uh, forty-five.

A Spectrum Plus two gray with the built-in tape sat around a hundred and forty-nine, um, about four hundred and fifty today.

A sixty-four pack on the high street was roughly a hundred and forty-nine to a hundred and ninety-nine, say four hundred and fifty to six hundred now.

An Amstrad CPC four-six-four was one ninety-nine for green screen or two ninety-nine for color, about six hundred or nine hundred today.

And that new Amiga five hundred, uh, list price of four nine nine is about, uh, fifteen hundred in modern money.

Fifteen hundred modern pounds for that sixteen-bit box is a serious Christmas negotiation beside an eight-bit brawler at pocket money prices.

You wanted the reviews on your side before adding another cassette on top.