Who sold Jaguars And Lynx's in the UK?

[thund3r]

So i need someone to help me with an annoying memory i cant work out, or if theirs any general histroy about how these were sold in the UK. I remember boots and shops like John Mensies (now W.H.SMITHS) selling loads of diffferet games from Spectrum, C64 to Mega Drive, master system and snes games during the early 90s but the only place i remember seeing jaguar's and lynx's being sold were Tandy. Although once i saw a jaguar being sold in a pound shop with 5 free games for £99 and more notably GAME/EB selling off stock a few years later. Was their anywhere else they were sold? or its it just my nievity?

Edited July 2, 2008 by thund3r

[walter_J64bit]

So i need someone to help me with an annoying memory i cant work out, or if theirs any general histroy about how these were sold in the UK. I remember boots and shops like John Mensies (now W.H.SMITHS) selling loads of diffferet games from Spectrum, C64 to Mega Drive, master system and snes games during the early 90s but the only place i remember seeing jaguar's and lynx's being sold were Tandy. Although once i saw a jaguar being sold in a pound shop with 5 free games for £99 and more notably GAME/EB selling off stock a few years later. Was their anywhere else they were sold? or its it just my nievity?

http://www.1632systems.co.uk/

[so_tough!]

Game had them, virgin also had them (thats where I picked up my first Jag)

[thund3r]

Yea i remember Eletronic's Boutique (now GAME) re-buying stock, but what im talking about is the retail sellers around their launch.

[+Stephen Moss]

I think Sillica Systems who were based in Sidcup, Kent and had a shop on Tottenham Court Road in London stocked them, they certainly stocked the ST/STe and TT as I got my ST from them, a place called The Console Center somewhere up north I think (around Manchester?) stocked Jag Stuff but I can't remember if they stocked the Lynx.

[Atari_Owl]

I think Sillica Systems who were based in Sidcup, Kent and had a shop on Tottenham Court Road in London stocked them, they certainly stocked the ST/STe and TT as I got my ST from them, a place called The Console Center somewhere up north I think (around Manchester?) stocked Jag Stuff but I can't remember if they stocked the Lynx.

 

Beattie's Toy Stores sold Jags

Debenhams in Southampton had a Silica Shop - Jags were there too, i'm not sure about Lynx - Jags were selling for about 60quid in 96ish i guess

There were two specialist stores in Crewe which sold both and moderately recently still had some Lynx/Jag/ST stuff

I remember seeing an import in December '93 in Stoke - but i think that was a specialist shop it was in an arcade that you entered via a big ramp..

HMV sold Jags - i saw them in the big HMV on Tottenham Ct Road (or is that a vrigin store?) and in also Oxford (that was definitely an HMV)

Game had Jags i remember seeing them next to the 3DO

 

 

I remember Amiga CD32s in Tandy stores for some reason.

Rumbelows is coming to mind but i'm wondering if its just A1200s i'm thinking off.

Edited July 3, 2008 by Atari_Owl

[Gunstar]

Being american, I have no idea who sold Jags in the UK back in the day, but aren't Tower Records stores in the UK? I know they sold Jags in the U.S., and for some reason, my memory is telling me Tower is an English company. Maybe I'm just completely wrong though...

[thomasholzer]

Rumblelows indeed sold Jaguars, they had huge promotions plans with Atari but they folded soon afterwards.

Telegames UK sold/sells both, Lynx and jaguar.

Ultima stores stocked Lynx and Jaguar

 

 

Tower Records (1 piccadilly circus) also are no more (now Virgin).

Edited July 3, 2008 by thomasholzer

[justclaws]

Hi,

So i need someone to help me with an annoying memory i cant work out, or if theirs any general histroy about how these were sold in the UK.

Distribution was a real problem for the Jaguar.

It came down to Rumbelows, Silica-Shop and Telegames mostly, by mail-order, and

independent retailers who had not turned anti-Atari after the ST market and Lynx died.

 

After Rumbelows folded then also Electronics Boutique (not Game, they bought EB later)

and EB came back a while later with stock. EB also had very strong promotions though

for the Saturn and Playstations, and most shop assistants were anti-Atari Sony fan-boys

due to the larger commission on the Sony, earlier the Saturn. Low-cost = lower reward!

 

In the north-east, Chips (now a national chain) was good, via Telegames distribution.

I bought nearly all my Jaguar games on release-day, or shortly afterwards, with the

4MB games generally costing £59.95, with games like Zoop coming in late at only £30.

Chips usually gave a discount to regular customers of a couple of quid, thankfully...

 

Cheers,

JustClaws.