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Tomy's attempts to cash in on the arcade boom A rare box shot of one of the three Smurfs games
These advertisements reveal why it's now so hard to find mint-condition Pocketeers complete with their boxes - Palitoy encouraged customers to rip the boxes to pieces in order to obtain proofs of purchase for free badges or even free Pocketeers.
Magazine advert for
Big Match
These ads,
semi-interestingly, feature the two games which Palitoy rather oddly
relaunched under different titles - Big Match (formerly World Cup) and
Casino (previously Poker).
Catalogue scan for
some of the US releases The US games show, I think, just how much the UK Pocketeers branding and packaging added. The Pocket Games versions are just games. Pocketeers actually take you into a whole populated universe. Picture of some "Pocketmates", a later UK rebranding of some of the games in the series A lovely shot of a mint-condition boxed Cup Final Pocketeer collectors Facebook group
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