Blue Swirl wrote:No takers, eh? Ah well. Thanks to Tectoy and the immense popularity of SEGA in Brazil, we get curios like the Master System Girl - a Master System in a Game Gear-esque case without a screen that used the aerial to beam the picture to your (or a neighbour's) TV. What makes it 'for girls'? Well, it's pink. Apparently. I'd describe it more as 'second hand car red' myself. Also, it came with a built-in game called Miranda... which was Alex Kidd with a gender-swapped sprite. See also: Master System Super Compact.
Blue Swirl wrote:No takers, eh? Ah well. Thanks to Tectoy and the immense popularity of SEGA in Brazil, we get curios like the Master System Girl - a Master System in a Game Gear-esque case without a screen that used the aerial to beam the picture to your (or a neighbour's) TV. What makes it 'for girls'? Well, it's pink. Apparently. I'd describe it more as 'second hand car red' myself. Also, it came with a built-in game called Miranda... which was Alex Kidd with a gender-swapped sprite. See also: Master System Super Compact.
davyK wrote:Oh I like that.
davyK wrote:When I say I like it , it's in a so-shit-it's-novel kind of way.
Diluted Dante wrote:I did take a look at it Swirly, but was working. The Master System Girl though, I've seen some pictures of it where it is a hot pink. I don't know if maybe they did 2 varieties, One for the Barbie lovers, and another for Ford Mondeo lovers.
retroking1981 wrote:Looks similar in concept to the Mega Jet.
Diluted Dante wrote:The reason it was so successful is because there are very restrictive taxes on imported consoles. Sega were smart enough to license the Master System to Tec Toy, who manufactured it in Brazil. This also mean that games were localised by Tec Toy as well. Nintendo were present, but mostly as clones, which was a super fractured market, and had wildly varying quality. TecToy were producing consoles to Segas specs, so it was a good quality product.
Time_on_my_hands wrote:When did curved edges become futuristic again?
Yossarian wrote:The pads seem pretty standard for the time, surely, compare those to the NES/MS pads. That’s not to say that they aren’t a bad design, they just aren’t a uniquely bad design. People were still frying to figure shit out back then.
Blue Swirl wrote:We've definitely talked about it before, and perhaps in this very thread. But I don't think I've seen a picture of one before now. The "Atari Entertainment System" is a massive 'what if?' in video game history, but we don't have to speculate what it would have looked like. A prototype was shown once (and only once) at the 1984 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show.
Behold! The Nintendo AVS, manufactured by Atari.
I dig it. Definitely a home computer of its era, but it's got a clean aesthetic, yet retains a distinct Nintendo look. The tape deck is particularly good design, and those pads are mental.
LivDiv wrote:Yeah pretty sure thats the first DS. Hideous thing.
retroking1981 wrote:I didn't think the AVS had anything to do with Atari. Isn't it just a Nintendo prototype before they settled on the Entertainment System design? I thought the Atari deal fell through before it got to any design/manufacturing stage.
Time_on_my_hands wrote:What's that little clamshell device in the top left? A game and watch type thing?
Diluted Dante wrote:Is that not an original DS? Guessing this is from some kind of museum rather than from CES.
LivDiv wrote:Yeah pretty sure thats the first DS. Hideous thing.
davyK wrote:Still spanked the PSP's arse though...I remember the big love the PSP got {...}
LivDiv wrote:It was a decent bit of kit, thankfully they gave it a facelift.
retroking1981 wrote:I didn't think the AVS had anything to do with Atari. Isn't it just a Nintendo prototype before they settled on the Entertainment System design? I thought the Atari deal fell through before it got to any design/manufacturing stage.
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