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Just out of interest...how did you all first come across SR?

Can't blame you..........

smedlos wrote:
> When an SR shop opened in Stapleford near where I live - didn't know
> there used to be one in Ilkeston though?

Oops, yeah I meant Stapleford...

Can you tell I don't live in Nottingham anymore and I'm rapidly forgetting about it? :-s

Yeah, I've still got that one too. I can't say it was of any use though. It never really taught me anything at all.

hehe, me too.
did you get their "instructional" video on how to play Streetfighter 2 as well??
truly hilarious that this was supposed to be a "how to" when they lost throughout the course of the tape :D

Very_Metal wrote:

> dude, YOU must remember Mean Machines as well then. featuring Julian
> Rignalls mullet (as seen on gamesmaster, before dave perrys bandana
> ate him :D )

Yeah, I got a few of the mags back in the day. I remember I bought Mean Machines because they had a video featuring preview footage of Sonic 2. Still got the video actually.

Cong_Man wrote:
> I bought WWE No Mercy from the Special Reserve shop in Illkeston.
> There was a glitch with the (excellent) story mode, which kept
> erasing all your saved data.

Ah, yeah. I remember that. I had the same problem. Got mine from SR over the phone. :) My mate got one without the glitch first time though which was quite annoying..

Hmm.. I just saw SR advertised in a Nintendo magazine back when I had an N64. I eventually joined and when I started getting the SR magazines I saw GAD advertised... lol. So I joined the forums. :D

Grandprix wrote:
> There were no games shops round my way. There still isn't, well, you
> get Woolworths but they just rip you off. Anyway, back to the point.
> I saw SR advertised in a mag, must have been early 90's. Became a
> member and bought Megadrive games, which later expanded to every
> other console/computer I've ever had.

dude, YOU must remember Mean Machines as well then. featuring Julian Rignalls mullet (as seen on gamesmaster, before dave perrys bandana ate him :D )

The Wardy wrote:
> Very_Metal wrote:
> hehe, i was pretty lame when i was 12 :D
>
> You must have been here years!

no dude, i meant the company, not the forum.
i found this place a year and a bit ago.
hoho, the internet wasn't even available when i was 12 (... good lord!)

> Is WWE your favourite forum?

i'd say so, along with "Life..."
there's a nice sense of people doing their own thing in the wwe forum, we get the bi-monthly "you know it's fake and you're all gay!!" visits, but everyone just seems happy to actually discuss the product and learn a few things along the way, can't fault that.

When an SR shop opened in Stapleford near where I live - didn't know there used to be one in Ilkeston though?