This is more my speed.

i had a sega game gear. actually, i just found it the other day. some ok games (all 30 of them..), but that screen is fuckin' hard to see.

how about failed ideas for nintendo? the power pad*? power glove? that bazooka looking thing they had for super NES?

*the idea of couch slobs exercizing to nintendo is still pretty funny

did anyone have one of these?:

the Texas Instruments TI994A?

fucking awesome. I think I got a second one after the first one died. I loved the clone games. Munch Man for fucks sake.

I had the voice module (the same that Brainiac used in "This Little Piggy") where you could program speech and some of the games would talk to you. so cool. You could also get donkey kong and all the other standards.

you could also program in Basic, which was fun for making your own crappy games.

this gif is fun, too:


Not Crap.

the only video game system i ever owned or spent any time on was intellivision, which is probably why i lost all interest in video games circa 1984.

BadComrade wrote: Sorta like a computer modem, only more "musical".

I have "Nerm the Worm" on TI-cassette. Also, I miss my old copy of "hunt the wumpus". Did either of you ever play that? How about "Alpineer"? "Chisolm Trail"? Those little TI home computers were fun.

spacebar wrote:

BadComrade wrote: Sorta like a computer modem, only more "musical".

I have "Nerm the Worm" on TI-cassette. Also, I miss my old copy of "hunt the wumpus". Did either of you ever play that? How about "Alpineer"? "Chisolm Trail"? Those little TI home computers were fun.

Nice. I dont think I had chisolm Trail and only saw Hunt the Wumpus in the stores. I had a bunch, though: Parsec, Munch Man, TI Invaders, A-Maze-Ing, Alpiner, Video Chess and Donkey Kong. I think there were only 25 games for it.

so fun.

jayryan wrote:the only video game system i ever owned or spent any time on was intellivision, which is probably why i lost all interest in video games circa 1984.

this had a voice unit too... called Intellivoice.

BEEE SEVENEEEN BAAAAWWWLLLMMERRRRR!!!

I won an intellivision from selling candy bars for my baseball team way back in the day. But it didn't come with any games and I never got to play it because my parents never bought me any games for it. dripping soupy crap.

Speaking of crap, why do I keep going back and forth between "total", "useless" and "complete" piece of shit?

kerble wrote:

spacebar wrote:

BadComrade wrote: Sorta like a computer modem, only more "musical".

I have "Nerm the Worm" on TI-cassette. Also, I miss my old copy of "hunt the wumpus". Did either of you ever play that? How about "Alpineer"? "Chisolm Trail"? Those little TI home computers were fun.

Nice. I dont think I had chisolm Trail and only saw Hunt the Wumpus in the stores. I had a bunch, though: Parsec, Munch Man, TI Invaders, A-Maze-Ing, Alpiner, Video Chess and Donkey Kong. I think there were only 25 games for it.

so fun.

My cousin had this and actually had the large-as-a-breadbox hard-drive/floppy-drive combo DEVICE. And a modem.

Even with that, all I remember is some Star Trek game that he loved and I hated, and also WONKAPILLAR, which we both liked.

TheMilford wrote:BEEE SEVENEEEN BAAAAWWWLLLMMERRRRR!!!

[gawky southern computer voice]"UHH-OH!![/gawky southern computer voice]

yes, i had the intellivoice.

and B17 bomber.

and some other game with a minotaur.