/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.542302]

Tell me about some rare & obscure consoles that you have or heard of. I want to keep a look out for these things to expand my collection.

[Anonymous No.542334]

Tandy/Memorex VIS

[Anonymous No.542368]

The IGS PGM. It's a Chinese arcade machine and has some cool games, like Martial Masters which has some of the best sprite art ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4VlN-nWHY0

[Anonymous No.546808]

Not strictly a console, but definitely /vr/ - I loved my Barcode Battler. Still have it with box, books, and all cards.

Pic related, but not my unit

[Anonymous No.546968]

Bandai Playdia, bought it in Hong Kong for exactly 5HKD. It has shitty IR controller and most games are FMV or porn but it has surprisingly cool Ultraman beat 'em up game. Still have it for that one game alone.
Another I got in that shop was Casio Loopy (that was 15HKD) with integrated printer for printing stickers. It had some typical girl games like draw your own princess and make your own sticker so I ended giving it to my niece. She chewed through the whole 100 stickers that came with it in two days and plastered them all over the house.

[Anonymous No.547142]

I have a few boxed pong consoles in the old collection

[NESfag No.547218]

I've got a game.com because I wanted to check out resident evil 2 on it.

It's the worst console and worst game I've ever had the misfortune to play.

Don't even get it for collection sake. Stay away from the thing by all means.

[Anonymous No.547250]

>>547218
Only problem with game.com is the screen. Duke 3D is pretty fun game and RE2 is impressive for handheld game. Seriously, if only the screen was better...

[Anonymous No.547257]

I own two of these. Not exactly super rare in my country, but I guess they're kind of a novelty to Americans.

>>542334
Must... contain... envy...

[Anonymous No.547258]

>>546808
Never heard of these until I watched Game Center CX... They look fun too.

[Anonymous No.547270]

>>547257
It was sold in US by Magnavox under different name. Games were the same.

[Anonymous No.547274]

>>547258
they were actually easily available and sold at most game stores when they where released, for a couple months at least. they've always looked interesting, wish they would have caught on here

[Anonymous No.547437]

>>547258

Its definitely a unique play experience. Getting to the final boss is time consuming, and intense when you're there

[Anonymous No.550585]

my friend gave me an APF MP1000 this afternoon

[Anonymous No.550612]

This shit came even before Atari, it came with preloaded games (Pong and the likes) and you had to spin a Dial to select a game.

[Anonymous No.550650]

The best I have is a Sega Nomad.
Basically, a portable Genesis with ghosting and a 2 second battery life (6 double As, anyone?)

[Anonymous No.550685]

The Pioneer Laseractive.

It ran off Laserdiscs, mostly had japan-exclusive games. and came with expansion ports to run the Sega CD, the Genesis and the Turbografx/CD.

It's awesome, and I hope to own one someday.

[Anonymous No.551810]

The most obscure thing I own. It's a pain in the ass to play.

[Anonymous No.551847]

Amstrad-GX4000.

Used to play this at a friends house in the early 90's; we mainly used to play Burnin Rubber and Pang (awesome game).

I believe only 25 games were ever made for it

[Anonymous No.552984]

The Capcom CPS Changer. Basically Capcom's answer to the Neo Geo AES. This hulking expensive thing played arcade perfect ports of CPS 2 games. As a parting gift to fans that plunked down the thousands of yen on this when Capcom phased into CPS 3, they produced a special watered-down version of Street Fighter Alpha for it. Incredibly rare and worth thousands, needless to say.

[Anonymous No.552997]

(one more before I go to bed) The Amiga CD32. Developed by Amiga to compete in the home console market in 1993, sold 100K units in Europe, and promptly canned a matter of months later due to a lawsuit by one of the chip providers, I believe?
Fun fact: this was set to be released in the US, but was canned before it could. Just a couple of years ago, a clutch of NTSC versions were found in a Filipino factory, and they have become more available. I REALLY want one.

[Anonymous No.553045]

This
it's crap

[Anonymous No.553054]

>>552984
>Street Fighter Alpha
>CPS 3

[Anonymous No.553472]

C64GS

Like the Amsrad GX4000 not a big seller, it came late in the C64's life & while that gave it lots of games it meant most people already had a C64 so sales were limited

[Anonymous No.553635]

>>552997
I got one of these at the thriftshop I work. Works 100%... But probably gonna sell it to some store in exchange for either money or some NES games.

[Anonymous No.555817]

I had a light gun style console. It was shaped like a triangle. There was a western, and a game called shoot the Bear. The bear was a giant red square. I forgot the other game on it. But it was 70's looking as fuck.

[Anonymous No.555845]

>>552997
I didn't realise the CD32 was a rarity in the states. They're relatively common here in Britland, and there's still a market for them and the dodgy 600 GAMEZ discs among people too stupid to set up WHDload on an A1200.

[Anonymous No.555863]

>>553045
It was worth it just for the Dick Smith sticker.

[Anonymous No.555925]

Super A'Can

Came out in 1995 exclusively in Taiwan

Only had 12 games total. Next time I find myself in taipei i'm gonna hunt one down. I heard most of the games on it are shit though.

[Anonymous No.556521]

>>555817
Telstra Arcade

[Anonymous No.556564]

>>550650
I just looked this up. This is the most beautiful thing. I need it.

[Anonymous No.556593]

Bandai Wonderswan Crystal.
Not SUPER-obscure, but it never came to the states, so...
Plus it's super-fun to say "wonderswan".

[Anonymous No.556604]

>>547270
"Odyssey 2" if memory serves.

[Anonymous No.556714]

>>550612

Ford made video game consoles? That console was released in Brazil since it has words in portugese.

[Anonymous No.557050]

>>556714
as odd as it might sound now, since we don't really associate them with quality design, in the 70s and 80s it wasn't uncommon for companies to have car companies do the visual design of products

[Anonymous No.557102]

>>551847
looking at game play footage, this looks like if they had like genesis grade graphics but didn't know what to do with it and just made master system style games

[Anonymous No.560343]

>>553054
It was about 4 AM here when I posted that. I am now fully aware of my error, lol.

[Anonymous No.562421]

The Casio Loopy: My Seal Computer sv-100

This baby was released only in Japan and was marketed towards girls. It only had 10 games and was released in 1995. It could print stickers and was cute as fuck. Games were titled shit like Animeland (literally animerando in Japanese) and harihair seal paradise

[Anonymous No.562467]

recently got a vic 20 and an action max. Not super rare, but I hadn't heard of them before and they have some cool weirdness

[Anonymous No.562503]

>>562467
Thought the vic 20 was cool because I didn't have a commodore console yet (other than the one jeri elsworth made )
games are cartridges as well as cassette tapes

[Anonymous No.562527]

>>562503
and the action max is a FMV console with VHS tapes as games... The only controller is a light gun, it has 5 games, and the only hud is the counter on the "console"

[Anonymous No.562602]

>>562527
What were the heaphones for?

[Anonymous No.562612]

how the fuck do vhs and casette based games even work

[Anonymous No.562625]

>>562602
The console has a headphone jack because it's audio doesn't play through the tv. Certain sounds come out of the console. so weird.

[Anonymous No.562637]

>>562527

Fuck dude, I had the haunted house VHS tape for that thing but I never had the actual console. It looked kind of fun for what it's worth.

[Anonymous No.562661]

>>562637

I just looked it up on youtube and I got a maximum nostalgia rush.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMmI04CilsY

[Anonymous No.562930]

>>562612
Actually how the fuck do carts even work? Like how the fuck does lightening zipping through metal dildos on a plate make mario appear on screen? I'm convinced computers were invented by a fucking literal wizard. Probably this motherfuck right here, look at him dancing around like he's high on fucking wizard drugs. probably casting marijuana magic on any poor smuck who walks by. How do you think Snoop Dogg was made?

Zap zap mother fuckers, daddy is home.

Fucking bird wearing ass

[Anonymous No.562950]

>>562930
>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

[Anonymous No.562964]

>>562612
Well, the action max games don't actually respond to input. The game just counts up how many targets you hit.

[Anonymous No.562995]

>>562612
Hardware reads data from magnetic tapejust like an optical drive reads data from an optical disc and stores it in RAM. What's so strange about that? Didn't you ever wonder why disc games have loading screens?

[Anonymous No.563009]

>>562964
oh, also the action max doesn't play the tape. You need to hook it up through a vcr.

[Anonymous No.563056]

Casio PV1000
Only lasted a week 'til it died

[Anonymous No.563224]

>>555817
>giant red square
Reminds me of ththe Degenatron commercial in GTA Vice City:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w9oK3ln8Es

[Anonymous No.564040]

>>562503
ah the good old Vic 20 my first computer, loved me some Gorf on it (best cart I had, though the others were also fun they just weren't Gorf)

[Anonymous No.564107]

>>564040
vic 20 jawbreaker is the weirdest game I own. You are a set of teeth and gums eating "candy" and if a child face touches you your teeth crumble?

[Anonymous No.564135]

it was a Microsoft game system that was only released in Japan.

It didnt make it big though and it crashed through. (It was like Commodore 64)

Dont remember its name

[Anonymous No.564156]

>>564135
All that comes to mind is the MSX, and IIRC that was pretty successful in Asia.

[Anonymous No.564547]

>>551847
>>557102
GX4000 was actually a console version of the AmstradPLUS, which was a slightly upgraded AmstradCPC.

it was a Z80 based system with very few console thing... used RAM like a computer (64K, no proper VRAM so the Video had to put the CPU on wait state when reading the graphics to display scanlines...).
Cartridges produced had too small ROM (128K only) and the Hardsprites were badly designed and insufficient so it relied on soft sprites.
As a result, developers couldn't do great stuff. Also many games were actually amstrad CPC games slightly modified...

Amstrad community is still active, as it was mostly an 8bit computer to begin with.

The few good games on the system :
Pang, Burnin'rubber, Switchblade, PanzaKickBorxing, Magic Pinball, Navy Seal, Robocop2, TennisCup2, ProTennisTour.

[Anonymous No.564571]

I got this for $1 USD at a flea market yesterday morning. I recalled seeing pics of these online, but wasn't entirely sure what it was. Judging by the famicom cart slot underneath I assumed it was another Fami-clone. Also didn't know if it worked, but for a buck, why not.

"Super Joy III"

The console itself looks like a N64 controller. The analog stick doesn't move, it's just for display. C buttons are now two sets of B and A, while A/B is now Select/Start. Start button resets the console. There's a power switch and a DC cable in where the R button should be, and AV cord in where the L button should be.

Also came with a 6 buttom genesis/megadrive controller with a little stick that screws into the center of the d-pad. Works surprisingly well actually. Light gun also works perfectly, better than my nintendo zapper (weird.)

Both controllers use the standard genesis/atari/etc plugs. The console itself has a removeable battery pack where the rumble packs etc should go. Takes 4 AA batteries, and does actually work; meaning this is/was good for car trips if you car had a tv back in the day.

More pics coming.

[Anonymous No.564584]

>>564571
here's the underside. Note the battery pack and famicom cartridge slot.

[Anonymous No.564639]

>>564584
Here's the starting screen when you turn the game on.

It makes claims of 12000 games. While you can actually scroll through 12000+ games, its actually only about 80+ games. anything else is either the same games renamed, or the exact same games.

[Anonymous No.564672]

>>564639
Overall, not a bad system. The build quality is what you'd expect out of a knock off, but it's still not falling apart. It's sturdy enough to last the previous owner more than a few years, and hopefully mine as well.

It's a NES pretty much. There's a lot of really good NES games on here, in english for the most part, and some others I've never heard of. I don't have any famicom carts, so I can't test out if it works or not. In all, I'd say it was worth my $1. I'd pay $10 for one of these in a heartbeat. But more than that is pushing it. Pretty neato.

Here's a shot of the Super Mario Bros game screen from the console.

[Anonymous No.564690]

The Vectrex is probably the most obscure I can think of (Most people only know of it because of the love CGR has for it)

Oh and the Bandi Wonderswan

[Anonymous No.564707]

>>564672
are the games complete or can you play one level and it's over

[Anonymous No.564740]

>>564690

It is pretty awesome, found one at my local thrift for $125

[Anonymous No.564831]

not really a game console, and I used it mostly for experimenting with basic programming, had a few games for it but they were all pretty meh, but I had one of these things as a kid

[Anonymous No.564842]

>>564690
not angry, or trolling, but the vectrex is just rare, not obscure, and you could buy wonderswans at gamestop back in the day

[Anonymous No.564901]

>>564842
I don't remember Gamestop carrying Wonderswan and I worked there back in the day. Do you maybe mean NGPC? We had those for a while.

[Anonymous No.564968]

>>564901
no... I specifically remember wonderswan color and imported games, maybe it was that other chain that I forget the name of now

[Anonymous No.565262]

>>564968
Electronics Boutique probably

[Anonymous No.566717]

>>564740
Man I would even pay 200$ for a fucking vectrex. They're so cool. Shame I'm poor as balls.

[Anonymous No.566762]

>>565262
>mfw I worked at an EB for the holiday season and managed to bring home a free game every couple shifts

[Anonymous No.570602]

Still trying to find anything about a console called Elfin. It was advertised in Sweden in the early 90s, supposedly it had a large amount of built in games, but i can't find anything about it even existing on the web.

[Anonymous No.571121]

A friend of mine had one of these when I was younger, and I was super jelly.

The Amstrad Mega PC, a goddam pc with a mega drive built in! Perfect for playing a bit of golden axe in between filling out TPS reports.

[Anonymous No.572762]

Just came across this:
http://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/Dendy-Junior-Nintendo-Famicom-Console-8-Bit-Spielkonsole-104-free-Spiele-Neu-/251267408238?pt=DE_Konsolen&hash=item3a80b4616e