I sorta follow what your saying there, I got a Sam for Christmas in ‘89 and thought I was one of the lucky ones…instead I was stuck with a white elephant and even a year on I only had all of the 12 games ever released, the few games for the machine were very poor (apart from Prince of Persia, Escape Robot Monsters & Samtris which I liked to play alot!) when compared to ST games, and was the laughing stock at school coz of the amount of money I spent on it….
(Obviously I appreciate the reasons behind the true lack of games - software houses didint wanna know…)I kept hold of my Sam though purely to convert speccy tapes onto Sam disk, and ‘ve got about 100 disks containing speccy games; I still have it upto this very day and kept up with the FRED disks and software releases for the machine despite the fact that the majority of the games were very poor, coz of all in view I kept my Sam as a ‘2nd machine’, moving onto the Archimedes then later on the PC for applications as well as the Super Famicom, PC Engine & Neo Geo for serious gaming.
(And yes, I still use my Sam Coupe right up this very day!)
Sam Coupe computer
I sorta follow what your saying there, I got a Sam for Christmas in ‘89 and thought I was one of the lucky ones…instead I was stuck with a white elephant and even a year on I only had all of the 12 games ever released, the few games for the machine were very poor (apart from Prince of Persia, Escape Robot Monsters & Samtris which I liked to play alot!) when compared to ST games, and was the laughing stock at school coz of the amount of money I spent on it….
(Obviously I appreciate the reasons behind the true lack of games - software houses didint wanna know…)I kept hold of my Sam though purely to convert speccy tapes onto Sam disk, and ‘ve got about 100 disks containing speccy games; I still have it upto this very day and kept up with the FRED disks and software releases for the machine despite the fact that the majority of the games were very poor, coz of all in view I kept my Sam as a ‘2nd machine’, moving onto the Archimedes then later on the PC for applications as well as the Super Famicom, PC Engine & Neo Geo for serious gaming.
(And yes, I still use my Sam Coupe right up this very day!)