Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Mario Wynands" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: addendum Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:26:18 +1300 Organization: Sidhe Interactive Lines: 57 Message-ID: <767igb$22919@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <75r3g9$2291@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <761d68$2294@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <762h1r$2295@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <36874354.F7C1A2C0@hinge.mistral.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p11-max3.wlg.ihug.co.nz X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Craig Graham wrote in message <36874354.F7C1A2C0@hinge.mistral.co.uk>... >Nick Ferguson wrote: >> >> Scratch that - fould a GOLD US version of the game today. Don't even dream >> of asking how much I paid (who said HK was cheap?) but I'm h-a-p-p-y. > >It used to be before they closed the Golden Centre at Sham Shau Po (I think >that's >how it was spelt). A hundred or more shops selling video games in one shopping >centre >all competing on price (ok, they also sold dodgy pirates at <£3 a throw as well, >but >that's another issue). There is a new computer centre open off the main drag in Kowloon (about 30-40 mins walk from the bottom depending on how well you negotiate those pesky tailors). A mix of (mostly) software and hardware, with a hundred or so shops (most selling 5 pirate CDs for HK$100 or about 8 GBP). Mostly PC and Mac stuff though. The bizarre thing is that there are also shops selling nothing but legitimate software as well. How they survive is beyond me. >There's a really good (very cheap) games shop out in the sticks (north of >Kowloon) >but I cann't remember the name of it off hand (in the last major shopping centre >before >you hit the chinese border).....they prices there are better than in the town >these days, >so it's worth the trek for big purchases. I think thats probably the one I was recommended, but I didn't make it out there because there was a bit of a typhoon while I was there. >Craig. >(spent ages in Kowloon 'coz my mates family own a village near the border) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Now there is something you don't see every day! Regards, Mario mario@sidhe.co.nz www.sidhe.co.nz