Sins of the Silicon and Console Curios - The Bear and Badger

mistercrayon

my friend and neighbour had one. Just had burnin rubber.

dynamiteReady

Of course it did. £99...

JonB

Didn't last long though.

Smang

yes. although it won't work on any 'modern' TV.

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davyK

If you have a VCR kicking about with composite out , then you have the route to ultra retro on modern TVs.

But you have to face that you really need a CRT if you want it to look "good".

Smang

woah VCR... probably harder to get hold of than the Binatone itself.

i would like to get a decent CRT, one of those sony pvr monitors or summat along those lines, that will truly make the older consoles shine.

Blue Swirl

Smang wrote:

yes. although it won't work on any 'modern' TV.

I love the switch to select different games. Though they could all be labeled 'Pong' to be fair.

AJ

Except for the two shooting games, of course.

Escape

Pong-pong! You're dead!

Didn't touch me!

poprock

Pong and Bang. It’s like … Pang! Oh man, Pang was a brilliant game. Used to have an arcade cab of it in the halls of residence at uni.

Smang

the football game on there is a wonderful variation on the pong formula. i used to play it all the time with mates when we were at college.

changing the speed, angles and bat size made for some seriously intense competition! gameplay over graphics yo

34 seconds in

AJ

I liked squash because I had no friends.

davyK

The football one with two paddles was excellent (also called Super Pong by Atari)

A Belfast pub (The John Hewitt) used to run Pong tournaments.....this video includes a crash of a Pong machine - given they were based on discrete logic this is very rare. It's a somewhat one-sided affair.

Billy

davyK wrote:

If you have a VCR kicking about with composite out , then you have the route to ultra retro on modern TVs. But you have to face that you really need a CRT if you want it to look "good".

Or get an XRGB mini and plug it into your 50" lcd. DOUbt the light gun would work though.

Smang

that video is intense!

but slightly disappointed they weren't using turbo and 'small' bats

they definitely have the extra angle on though, fair play

Blue Swirl

AJ wrote:

Except for the two shooting games, of course.

No, I include those. Just a variation on a bouncing projectile like the others.

Blue Swirl

Six console flops that were actually amazing via Digitalspy.

Agreed with the Nomad (and stuff like the Multi Mega), but Ouya?

davyK

Billy wrote:

davyK wrote:

If you have a VCR kicking about with composite out , then you have the route to ultra retro on modern TVs. But you have to face that you really need a CRT if you want it to look "good".

Or get an XRGB mini and plug it into your 50" lcd. DOUbt the light gun would work though.

Does an XRGB mini have an RF input?

Roujin

Have we had the renovated all wood neogeos mentioned yet? PHWOAR.

Billy

Oh man it was actually an rf plug on that thing? Sorry Davy, no it doesn't sadly!

Smang

I dunno about the console but i want that stick.

davyK

Billy wrote:

Oh man it was actually an rf plug on that thing? Sorry Davy, no it doesn't sadly!

ah....pity. Knew the mini had composite in but didn't think it had an RF tuner.

Blue Swirl

Roujin wrote:

Have we had the renovated all wood neogeos mentioned yet? PHWOAR.

Noice. Bonus points if you can open them up to reveal a stash of cigars.

Blue Swirl

More proof for my 'at some point, every electronics company on Earth has had a go at making a games machine'*, the Mattel Aquarius. There's also an Aquarius II, but that apparently reached market in such small numbers, if at all, it's basically impossible to find.

*Alright, so Mattel aren't strictly an electronics company, but some of their toys have electronics in. And the Aquarius is a computer rather than a games machine, but it had controllers available AND SHUT UP I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING.

retroking1981

Damn!

I remember Mattel making NES consoles in Europe initially, didn't know about this though.

Who remembers this monstrosity:

The Commodore 64 Games System (often abbreviated C64GS)

It was a stripped down C64 with just the ability to play the carts, released in 1990 in Europe (possibly UK?) only to compete with the booming console market dominated by Sega and Nintendo.

davyK

I can remember the Aquarius in the overcrowded market at the peak of the 8bit micro storm.

Don't remember that C64 based system though.

RedDave2

I remember that c64 console. Never saw the point from a consumer point of view - no tape player meant you lost all the good c64 catalogue. If I remember right, amstrad tried the same thing.

Just imagine the poor kid who got that instead of a nes or master system.

Escape

Hateful joystick, an' all. If you listen carefully, you can probably still hear one clacking through the ages.

cockbeard

RedDave2 wrote:

I remember that c64 console. Never saw the point from a consumer point of view - no tape player meant you lost all the good c64 catalogue. If I remember right, amstrad tried the same thing. Just imagine the poor kid who got that instead of a nes or master system.

The amstrad thing was a CPC 6128 with a slot for mega drive cartridges which was the best of both worlds, although they did do the gx2000 or similar which was waste of space

Unlikely

Sure it was a 6128? That was just the 464's big brother and there's no way in hell it could play Megadrive games.

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