/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1455909]

>Karaoke Studio (カラオケスタジオ Karaoke Sutajio?) is a music video game designed for Nintendo's Family Computer. Physically the game acts as a subsystem designed to be inserted into the Family Computer cartridge slot. Several levels of the game can be played on the subsystem alone, and additionally, smaller expansion cartridges (originally available for separate purchase) providing additional levels and other new content can be plugged directly into the Karaoke Studio subsystem. The game comes with a microphone peripheral capable of detecting a human voice.

I never knew the Famicom had karaoke. I only found out about this because I was looking up some Japanese word I found on a Pop'n Music case (Senyou, or せんよう) and didn't know what it meant. Apparently there were two expansion carts for the karaoke studio, both of which had Senyou in the name.

What other weird Famicom accessories were there? Why does Bandai always seem to make strange expansions to consoles?

[Anonymous No.1455916]

>>1455909
I am mainly thinking of the Sufami Turbo when I question Bandai's strange peripheral history.

[Anonymous No.1455921]

[Anonymous No.1455925]

Reads barcodes and lets the barcodes you've collected battle your friends barcodes.

[Anonymous No.1455929]

>>1455925
>>1455925

Damn, as early as the FC?

I kind of want to get this stuff now that I have a Fami, though first on the list would still be an ED F8.

[Anonymous No.1455940]

Pachinko controllers are always weird.

I don't get Japan's obsession with pachinko games. What's the point if you're not playing for money? It's like those games based off of game shows that don't involve any sort of trivia knowledge. Like Deal or No Deal. What the hell is the point?

[Anonymous No.1455943]

Inflatable motorbike controller? You fucking bet!

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[Anonymous No.1455951]

Did the NES version of Arakanoid (or Arkanoid 2) ever come with special controller?

[Anonymous No.1455956]

A reactive inflatable boxing bag

[Anonymous No.1455957]

>>1455925

[Anonymous No.1455960]

>>1455940
I'm sure they thought practicing at home would improve their parlor performance.

[Anonymous No.1455961]

>>1455951
Yes.

I wonder if the Pachinko controller would work with Arkanoid.

[Anonymous No.1455963]

>>1455960
Hmm I suppose that makes sense. I was browsing some Jap online shops for vidya the other day and it just got annoying have to skip past six billion pachinko games.

[Anonymous No.1455965]

>>1455909

Senyou means "to be used exclusively(...)" 専用

[Anonymous No.1455968]

>>1455960
Throw dual analog and 4 shoulder buttons/triggers, and you've got the perfect controller.

[Anonymous No.1455971]

Wireless Famicoming...sort of

[Anonymous No.1455974]

[Anonymous No.1455976]

>>1455968

Do you?

[Anonymous No.1455979]

Apparently this some sort of savestate peripheral

[Anonymous No.1455982]

>>1455976
dpad ruins that one

[Anonymous No.1455987]

You know how Famicoms have those short controller cords because Japanese like to have the whole console sitting close to them? Well this thing held enough batteries to run the Famicom and a VHF transmitter in it, made the console wireless.

Doesn't appear to have a battery indicator on it though so it probably suffers the Atari wireless controller fault where it would suddenly just stop. Maybe the VHF got fuzzy first. I wonder if it let you plug in temporarily while you changed batteries so you wouldn't lose your game.

[Anonymous No.1455984]

If the Famicom's controllers weren't attached it would be greatest console ever designed.

Prove me wrong.

[Anonymous No.1455991]

>>1455971
Oh shit you beat me to it.

[Anonymous No.1455998]

>>1455951
>all that plastic
>tiny knob and button

>>1455956
What game used this?

>>1455963
What is this?

>>1455965
Thanks. I guess it was referring to how the Pop'n Music controller was only meant to be used with Pop'n Music.

I wonder if there's videos of people using rhythm controllers to play other games. The Dreamcast videos for Fishing Calibur are pretty great.

[Anonymous No.1456000]

It's not really a peripheral but I've been wanting to get one of these things for ages despite not having a disk system. They just look so fucking cool.

[Anonymous No.1456001]

>>1455982
Same with 360 plus chatpad then?

I feel like you'd also need 6 face buttons and 4 shoulders.

[Anonymous No.1456004]

>>1455998
>What game used this?

Exciting Boxing

[Anonymous No.1456008]

>>1455984
The attached part isn't so much an issue as is the absurdly short length. I get that for tiny Japanese households that it's ideal, but it makes it impossible to put the system anywhere but on the floor right in front of you.

Also, the famicom's distinctive red color is called azuki red, which if I understand correctly is the color of red bean (or azuki bean). It was chosen because it was cheap as hell to mold plastic in that color at the time.

[Anonymous No.1456006]

>>1455998
>What is this?

My guess is its a thing that lets you plug in headphones

[Anonymous No.1456012]

>>1456004
I had a feeling it would be the exciting series.

>>1456008
now that I think about it, I guess the AV Famicom + disk system is the perfect system then? Or does the design count too? Also, I think the ext. port might not have made the jump from original to AV.

[Anonymous No.1456013]

>>1456008
Yeah the length is a pain. I always have to have my famicom on the very bottom shelf of my tv unit and then pull the whole damn thing out if I ever want to use it.

[Anonymous No.1456016]

>>1456013
Same. Of everything I've played, only the Virtual Boy is more uncomfortable to use.

[Anonymous No.1456019]

>>1455921
Sega had those too. Master System ones were better if I remember right.

[Anonymous No.1456020]

>>1456016
I'm not sure why or how you'd have the VB across the room while playing it, unless you have a severe skull disfigurement.

[Anonymous No.1456021]

>>1456016
I suppose one way around it would be to just buy a Hori pad and use that instead.

[Anonymous No.1456025]

>>1456020
Well I meant in general, I always get a stiff back and neck from the VB. It's a pain that I live with for my love of Mario Clash and Red Alarm.

[Anonymous No.1456030]

>>1456021
Is that the one that plugs into the expansion port? I may just need one at this point.

[Anonymous No.1456034]

>>1456030
Yeah. There was quite a few third-party controllers for the Famicom. There's also that Hudsonsoft turbo controller thing. I definitely wouldn't mind getting a hold of one of those.

[Anonymous No.1456040]

>>1456034
derp forgot pic

[Anonymous No.1456053]

>>1456025
That's when you lay back and have it propped on your face.

[Anonymous No.1456052]

>>1456030
>>1456034

[Anonymous No.1456070]

>>1456053
I always worry that it'll fall off. I'm quite nervous about breaking my VB.

[Anonymous No.1456074]

>>1455979
Cassette recorder some games apparently used to store custom content.

[Anonymous No.1456075]

>>1456070

[Anonymous No.1456079]

>>1456074
The Turbo File thing was made by ASCII and only really meant for games by them. Like Wizardry.

[Anonymous No.1456118]

>>1456079
Nintendo had their own tape deck for saving programs written using Family Basic (the keyboard and stuff posted here >>1455946)

[Anonymous No.1456159]

Wasn't there some sort of Loom?

[Anonymous No.1456170]

>>1456159
There was going to be a Nintendo sweater knitting thing, but it fell through.

[Anonymous No.1457260]

>>1455925
I really don't get the point of all this setup, in order to play it you need way too many things and stages to setup the whole thign and even then it seems like something that would work a lot better without it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YpwyPxmCA0