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jhd

Member Since 3 Oct 2001
OFFLINE Last Active May 25 2012 6:26 PM

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Electronic Darts Game

Tue May 1, 2012 3:51 PM

This is a long-shot, but as a young child (ca. 1977 or '78), I recall seeing this electronic darts game. I never got to play it (I was too young), but as I recall it supported up-to four players. The main screen was mounted on the wall and each player had a wired hand controller.

It was not really a "video" game per se; the screen was a translucent, with a light shining through it to show the path of the dart. As I recall, the screen was several feet long and rectangular, the background was predominantly pink in colour, with the dart board located at one end. There was probably also a score display, but I do not remember it.

Any guesses?

Grover's Music Maker in Business Week

Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:12 AM

The American magazine Business Week for January 24, 1983, p. 81 has an article on video game publishers moving into the then growing market for educational games. The companies profiled included Atari.

The only Atari game discussed in any detail is the unreleased Grover's Music Maker. http://www.atariprot...over/grover.htm

Oddly, the article states that “The game teaches the child colors and elementary music notation”. It is not clear where the author of the article got that idea as the game does not seem to use either colours or music notation.

Jaguar III console

Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:18 PM

Electronic Gaming Monthly, May 1995, p. 28 has a brief article on the soon to be launched Jaguar CD.

Interestingly, there is a mention of the "Jaguar III" console. It apparently included an integrated CD drive and other, undisclosed, features. It was slated for a Fall release. There is a quote from a J. Patton, director of third-party licensing and contracts, saying that "we're confident that it will rival any of our competitior's next generation systems" -- i.e. presumably the forthcoming PlayStation and Saturn.

The article also makes a brief mention of the (unrelased) Jaguar Voice data Communications Modem.

I'm no expert on Atari history, but was the company not suffering from a serious lack of cash by this point? Were there the resources (financial, human) even available to develop, much less launch, a completely new console?

PlayStation 2: Last console without DLC?

Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:06 PM

The PlayStation 2 includes support for online play with some titles, but it does not have any provision for DLC (primarily because it does not normally include a hard drive).

Was that the very last console released that did not have provision for the now ubiquitious DLC?

Technically, later releases of the Japanese version of the PS 2 included the Broadband Navigator, which provided for some downloadable games, etc., but this product was never released elsewhere.
http://en.wikipedia....dband_Navigator

"Foreign"/Import games in wild

Wed Mar 14, 2012 3:06 PM

Have many people encountered "foreign" or import games in wild at flea markets, thrift shops, etc? I am not counting game shops that specifically import titles for resale.

By "foreign" I am referring specifically to the situation in North America where Canadian-only titles (e.g. Zellers games, Obelix, bilingual or French-language labels) turn up in the US, and American releases (e.g. Sears VCS titles) that appear for sale in Canada.

(Similar things may happen across Europe, but I am utterly unfamilar with that market).

Personally, I have once seen a Sears-brand VCS at a thrift shop here in Canada, and another time I found a pirate Famicom cart at another thrift shop.

Not gaming-related, but I once also found a pile of VCD(?) movies from Asia at a thrift shop.

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