Piracy played a good part in the DC's demise Almar.
Every Market and 2nd hand shop stocked bootleg games and boot up discs , 3 or 4 for a tenner.
The DC was the perfect home arcade machine , with some of the best, addictive arcade games ever available , but SEGA pumped most of the promo budget into sponsoring Arsenal instead of TV campaigns to reel in the casual or undicided gamer , surprising as their famous Sonic pirate TV ad's for the Mega Drive was what made SEGA so successful in the 16 bit era ,and give it street cred amongst the youth , over the more powerful SNES.
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