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Missile Command ahead of Pac-Mac OR Defender?

I meant to say in my earlier post, not counting super mario bros, the next best one. becuase it is automatic SMB is the #1

The best black box NES game is actuallyt Wrecking Crew. Not opinion, fact. And itr has th ebest password sstem of all games! VThe password is the same as the level u r on! 10 = 10!

1:40: I can't believe you said that about basketball! You might as well say that about every pre-1979 game. I mean you are like a teenager saying The Beatles are nothing special or that Citizen Kane is "boring." If you are going to judge games by the standards of their successors, this will be a very dreadful series to watch indeed. And no, THIS game was NOT featured in Airplane! It was IntelliVision NBA Basketball. And Kareem, while he in the movie, NEVER played it much less in the cockpit! You are clearly NOT a source for accurate info!

I have a few of these... the Coleco Telstar Arcade, the ViewMaster Interactivision, and the Tandy/Memorex VIS. They are all just as sad as you make them out to be. Were there any consoles or computers that were specifically Australian or Canadian? Those are two areas that I know little about, especially Canada. The only game console that originated there was the GameWave DVD player as far as I've ever heard. And it seemed like Australia only had rebadged hand-me-downs from other countries. I'd love to know more about their '80s computer/console scenes.

I find it funny that the only things Bally is known for these days is Bally Fitness and the Bally Sports Network...such a big downgrade from the pinball machines and arcade games they used to be known for in their early days...

My first computer was the 1200XL because my brother had an 800, I loved it. My biggest beef with it was it only had 2 joystick ports. My memory of that era was I saw tons of Commodore 64 commercials. I even remember seeing lots of the Charlie Chaplin IBM commercials but I never saw a single Atari Commercial.

The Legend of Zelda was never a black box game the cover that is shown was done by a 3rd party custom box artist same goes for Punch Out.

I think i saw the Studio 2 once in an older kid's basement rec room. I asked if we could plug it in and try it. ( In probably 1981)He replied, " No, It sucks, my dad doesn't want me touching the cables to plug it in".

Well, I WAS entering a comment about my experiences with one of these, and then fucking UA-cam decided to show a fucking ad on a PAUSED video, taking focus away from the message box, interpreting my keystrokes as commands for the page, and putting the damn video in a box while loading the main page. Needless to say that all of my comment text was gone. SO FUCK YOU UA-cam! I HATE THESE GODDAMN FUCKING ADS!!!

Here in the USA, the Telstar Arcade wasn’t obscure - it was just expensive. And people were still new to the idea of a TV hook-up. The games were actually fun, and you got a light gun and a steering wheel along with the Pong paddles. Before the VCS, it was cutting-edge.

The Atari Falcon is my "Holy Grail" of Computers... I would 100% sell ALL my retro computers to obtain one. lol.

I have the RCA Studio II new in box stored away in my basement somewhere. Crazy find at an antique store for $10. Oh, and I had the Entex Space Invaders hand-held too, 40 years ago. Thanks for reminding me of it!

Thank goodness my family never owned any of these.

I asked before but didnt get an answer. What does your intro say? Lol i have OCD & it drives me crazy every time i hear it. And for the record, ive never been good at understanding song lyrics & stuff like that so its just me.

Interesting note about the RCA Studio II. It has a similar RF architecture to the Atari 5200 (Rev 1, 4 player version). Meaning that the power lead on the RCA Studio II actually plugs into the RF box connecting to the Television. Many of these systems no longer work simply because the owners either lost the RF/power modulator for the unit, or the unit has broken down and they either threw it away, or lost it not knowing it was essential to have it to actually power the unit. Now it should be noted that there is a modification (Deathskull Labs had it but the site is gone) to reroute the 9V power back to the console. It takes a bit of research to find it. Also, there is a documentation as well to either build your own RF/Power Modulator, or repair the one with the console. But truthfully? You aren't missing anything as the graphics are awful. Now if RCA has released this in 1973? It could have been a good seller as competition for the Magnavox Odyssey.

No thanks. Unsubscribed and won't watch any more of this content.

tristar is still the sexiest console ever made

I played with a Tandy VIS demo unit in a Radio Shack many decades ago.

It wasn’t 32-bit

Well done. The vhs 📼 gaming console reminds me of the Action Max.

With the Coleco Telstar Arcade being essentially a passthrough, wouldn't that mean it's essentially unlimited in it's capabilities other than the A/V and controls? Someone could potentially build a Pi Zero based cartridge for it and do...who knows what. Or build an interface to it and connect literally anything.

I've always thought the ZX Spectrum could have had a good chance here if the hardware was tweaked for the US market. Yes, we got the Timex Sinclair 2068 which is basically a Spectrum 48K but they made the very stupid decision to make it incompatible with the thousands of games available for it in it's home country.

Had a Tandy VIS. Got one when they were blowing out during clearance. I wanted to get the Sierra point and click adventure titles they were advertising with it, but I never did find those. Wonder if they were ever released? It was painfully slow. Worse loading than the Sega CD which was several years old at the time. I got the system and a couple of games for less than the price of one regular console game and still felt ripped off. The controller was terrible as well. Was nearly unresponsive in any action game. I also had the Telestar arcade. I bought it in the mid 1980s. Possible during the video game crash. A store was going out of business, and they had one in box covered in dust. It was only a few dollars. I enjoyed it. Only had one game for it.

Visually the RCA Studio II looks like it'd be right at home on an office desk next to a 70s hospital intercom. I didn't think anyone could make beige look anymore mundane than it already is.

Does anyone else think the video game crash of the early 80s were just customers tired of being served the same crap over and over with no real innovations.

As a kid of the 70's & 80's, there wasn't too many handhelds or systems that I never saw on display some place, but for the life of me, I have no memories of seeing the Adventure Vision. I may have seen it in a Christmas Catalog or on a shelf, but never running on display in person. That being said, I got to play one at a gamers expo some years back here in Vegas, and I was blown away by what I saw. To see a device from that period of time, and still be amazed at what I saw in current times, that speaks volumes to what was created. Videos simply do not do this device justice, as it really needs to be seen in person to appreciate how well ahead of its time it was.

I have a RCA Studio II and a Telstar Arcade, three of them actually but only one of which that is functional. I had two VIS consoles but it was so much of a mind numbingly lackluster and boring system that I sold them. The Studio II is a curious oddity in that it was a case of too little too late. If it had been released a couple years earlier it would have been a hit since it does offer a lot more variation versus a standard Pong console. Some other curiosities is that the power supply and R/F connector are integrated into a proprietary set up, similar to what Atari would do with the original 4 port release of the 5200. Also, the sound emits for the system itself like the first model of the Fairchild Channel F. Kind of the same situation with the Telstar. It's pretty much the Rolls-Royce of Pong units but it's still a Pong console at heart. True the triangular cartridges did offer up more options, like the Studio II but they were all quote basic and primitive and when compared to the Atari VCS there just wasn't any hope of sustainable success. Plus the system itself is a bit of the delicate side. The interior of the system is an exhibition of vintage mechanics with wired connectors on the sparsely populated boards and the like.

Bro, did you happen to really look at the advertisement @2:51? That thing had a multicolored display (3 colors at once). How was that possible? I thought they either had one color or used an overlay. The tech specs say 'Red Pixels.' Oh and thank you for playing me theme song.

My dad had an RCA Studio II. It was fun for what it was when it was.

Wow, two on this list I'd never even heard of. Good job! In particular, the Adventure Vision sounds like it was sadly ahead of its time. It coulda been a contendah. Also, I'll never get tired of how incredibly, perfectly late-80s the hardware design of the InteractiveVision is.

i remember back when i was a kid in the late 70's early 80's. my mom & dad did own the rca studio 2. the only games we had for it was math & blackjack. this was before we got the atari 2600

Wow never heard of any of these consoles, the Adventure Vision seems quite interesting!

Just when I thought I'd heard of all of the random retro consoles, you manage to pull out a few more that I had never seen before. It seems that just about everyone and their uncle was trying to put out a console in the 70s and 80s. Oh, and I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when you blasted that "America" song. I would have hosed my monitor. LOL

Telstar Arcade was not a failed console IMO. It sold one million units and was ubiquitous in stores and catalogs here in the U.S. Short-lived, yes, thanks to the Atari VCS as you said, but not sure it was a "failure".

Entex made very good tabletop games, and I'd forgotten all about the Adventure Vision - I remember seeing a couple in stores back in the day, and they promptly vanished with almost no fanfare. With a little more processing power and better hardware, I wonder if that system could have been a success, as there was nothing else quite like it.

I am kinda amazed the Adventure Vision was realized as a product in 1982?? When I think of tabletop arcade gaming in the 1980s, I think of clunky VFD and LCD games with a refresh rate of "please, do not refresh, thanks".

The Studio II is very depressing to look at and to hear. I am surprised there were clones of it

The Telstar looks great! I want this for Christmas

Tons of knowledge and history. Thank you for your effort!!

Great job thanks 👍

Ok, you win. I have never heard of the VIS. That's the first time that's happened to me in a decade. Well played.

I love this series!

Very good video.

The original woody four switcher had this exact port/joystick layout. So their recreation is spot on and accurate except the size of the unit of course.

Your videos are great we are working on a console it'll probably be on this list one day 😂

thanks for all the great videos mate.

Nice, thanks for this console video❤

they all seem good to me for once .