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What are some of those crazy add ons or retro tech ideas that faded away. Saw this sufami turbo today, never knew about it before. General retro failed tech thread.

>> No.2578692
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Casio Loopy usually gets a lot of love. It's a video game console that could print stickers. It was mainly aimed at the photo booth market, that was already drying up and it missed the collectible card game market.

>> No.2580615

>>2578680

I never knew about this until now.

>> No.2581453
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>>2578680
Meet the GlucoBoy, a device used to check your blood sugar levels.

>> No.2582549

>>2578680
Pretty much everything Sega made for the Genesis.

>> No.2582596

>>2582549
Same can be said for pretty much every NES accesorie

>> No.2582609
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>>2578680
there is the u-force for the NES, intended to convert hand movements to controller buttons, it was conviluted and cumbersome and didn't always register correctly though.

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>>2582609
I raise you with the Activator.

So complex(?) that it required its own training video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-UZv3AS-E

MK2's Genesis port defaulted to 'ACTIVATOR' controls so you were essentially fucked if you didn't have a 6-button pad.

>> No.2582650

>>2582638
my cousin had one of those, I completely forgot about it until now, unsurprisingly it never fucking worked correctly. Otherwise though, why are you trying to "up me", I wasn't aware this was some sort of competition...

>> No.2582695

>>2582638
I have one of these in my attic right now. My roommate brought it home from his mom's place a few weeks ago, but I haven't tried setting it up due to how much floorspace it takes up.

>> No.2582716
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Similar to OP's is the the Aladdin Deck Enhancer.

>> No.2582753

>>2581453

I've seen this mentioned before- I think the idea of a young diabetic kid swapping out his Golden Sun cart with this add-on to check his sugar level depresses me

>> No.2583192

>>2582638
And these kids thought wii boxing was a workout.

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There's a ton for the Game Boy in japan. Zok Zok Heroes had one of those shaking electric charge things, like those shitty flashlights, bardigun had a barcode scanner, Grander Musashi RV REvolution has a fucking fishing reel you attach to the game boy (all it does is mash A).

And of course, the Game Boy DDR games.

>> No.2586165

I know the PS1 had an adapter that would allow you to play original Game Boy games.

In Japan the Mega Drive had a modem that would allow you to make phone calls and had some sort of banking feature.

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>>2583213
I've always wanted to get the barcode boy, but the games for it are so moonspeak, you could never get through them.

>> No.2588210

>>2588107
it's kind of a shame that those things were never released in the US, I don't quite get why they thought it wasn't worth importing. What kid wouldn't love scanning random barcodes to see what monsters it makes.

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>>2588210

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>>2588534
Also this thing. Though the display just being a bunch of numbers, I suppose I can see why this one didn't really take off.