Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Blast From the Past: Advanced PET Promo Booklet


Back when Mega Man Battle Network 4 came out, oh so many years ago, there was a lot of hype surrounding the release of the Takara's electronic Advanced PET.  Fueling the fire, we had these neat mini-booklets from Coro Coro Comics that showed off just what the device could do. There were plenty of images to be had; enough visual stimulation to get even the youngest of NetBattlers drooling in anticipation for the coolest toy of the year.

Because I'm a pack rat, I held onto one of these booklets. It's up there for your viewing pleasure. Bring back any fond memories?

Anyway, do hit the jump below for all the scans!




Bonus image! Here's a proof-of-concept version of the PET before it went into production. Keen-eyed fans will note a few superficial differences:



If anyone is interested, I've held onto nearly a gigabyte's worth of old Coro Coro scans with all kinds of neat stuff. I could toss 'em up here every now and then. Yeah?

14 comments:

  1. Very cool. I miss coro coro.

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  2. Yeah definately!

    If you need hosting for any of those, please do let me know. I'll have to look through some of mine as well, perhaps we've got some neat ones!

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  3. Yeah definately!

    If you need hosting for any of those, please do let me know. I'll have to look through some of mine as well, perhaps we've got some neat ones!

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  4. I remember these. I kinda wanted one.

    Also, sounds great PD. go for it.

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  5. Definitely post those CoroCoro scans. :D

    Pretty interesting find here.

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  6. As a die-hard Battle Network fan, I respectfully DEMAND ALL THE SCANS!1!!!

    Please? :D

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  7. Only Japan could have such a blow-out promo-fest like this. Those were the days...

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  8. Loved CoroCoro and definitely miss these. Used to battle with a friend with them too, oh how times flies.

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  9. I still have the english version of the PET, it sucks all you do is shake the thing like crazy until you fight a virus.

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  10. Deff. you should upload that 1GB worth of scans. Of course not all at the same time cause it'd take long. xD

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