NEC TurboGrafx, Sega Genesis, and Me...
My friend David Farquhar has posted some of the history of the Sega Genesis Game Console . Back in late February, 1990, my store manager got a call from our district manager. I was the Assistant Manager of the Software Etc. store in Ridgehaven, a strip mall across a few roads from Ridgehaven, a major shopping center in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The district manager needed someone to close the Eden Prairie store, down the road from us, that night, because the previous store manager was, as of that date, no longer with the company. Eden Prairie Center has changed quite a bit over the years, but back then, it had a couple of things that made it stand out, if you worked for Software Etc. That company began life in the corner of a B. Dalton bookstore in downtown Minneapolis, and one of the first stand-alone stores was set up in the basement of Southdale. If you have spent any time at all in any mall in the country, you should tip your hat to Southdal...