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From: laird@think.com (Laird Popkin)
Subject: Re: lynx
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 23:27:04 GMT

In article <1991Mar19.200450.21738@isc.rit.edu> drp9500@isc.rit.edu (D.R. Paradis ) writes:
>>
>>  Portable game system market so far:
>>
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>>        NEC TurboExpress        $300+      Color, 1-2 players, accepts
>>                                             TurboGraphix-16 games
>                                 ^^^^
>                                 $250 (tuner shown in ads is an extra
>$150)
>

Actually, while NEC says that the _list_ price for the TurboExpress is
$250, all of the major chains seem to be claiming that it lists for $299,
and selling it for that (when they can get it).  The tuner is another
$90-100.  The amazing things about the TE, to me, is that for $250-300 you
get a TE, 6 batteries, and a skinny manual.  No games to play, no
transformer, no multi-player cable.  For that much money, you would expect
them to throw in the "accessories" necessory to use the thing.  I guess
they know that the only people who will buy the TE already own the TG16
anyway.  For $99, the stripped down Lynx package is reasonable, purely to
compete with the $89 GameBoy.  But NEC's attitude with the TE isn't cool.
They did the same thing with the TG16 for a while, too -- you would thing
they'd learn that people like to be able to use what they buy.

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