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How Blockbuster and a mail order catalogue helped PlayStation defeat the Sega Saturn
The PS1 fought SEGA and the Saturn, and somehow won. This is the story of how it found victory in one bedroom in the south of England.
I expect people born in a more modern era than the 80s who have watched TRON probably think that arcade games were everywhere back then, sprawling aircraft hangar-sized warehouses packed to bursting with the very latest cabinets of the day. Pubs sometimes had a golf machine and there was a sit-in Postman Pat van inside Sainsbury's that was very popular, but that was it unless you were lucky enough to go to a fancy leisure centre, the kind that had laser tag as well as a swimming pool. | Image credit: Internet Archive Weeks passed, my savings pot gradually getting bigger, my eyes absolutely ballooning each time I saw new blurry screenshots of Saturn games each month.
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