I am aware that the tape shown in the movie is actually a Betacam SP but I don't think I have a good chance of finding a copy of that any time soon. So this will have to do for now. Also yes, WALL-E still works.
I finished getting this all assembled late last night before bed, so I was unable to test it out because I needed the batteries to charge. I am looking forward to putting this through it's pases on Dragon Hopper later today once I get home from work.
This was at Dorky's in Tacoma
I'm just waiting on a delivery that should be coming soon so that I can have a Switch compatible Virtualboy controller that is wireless. Hopefully Nintendo releases Dragon Hopper and Zero Racer and doesn't back out so I can get some good use out of this controller when its done.
So this game is a Tamagotchi with a few more bells and whistles. It has every possible Tamagotchi outcome from the first and second generation of Tamagotch's, you can choose the type of food from both generations to feed it (also your Tamagotchi can develope a favorite type of food and refuse to eat others) you can choose the type of game you play with your Tamagotchi from the types in the first 2 generations and you can raise 3 Tamagotchi's at once. Plus the best part is you can pause the Tamagotchi a hole lot easier and pick it up when ever you need to (you know, around your busy work or school schedule). It is a fun game if you like these digital pets and you already have a Gameboy.
Man that was a lot of saying Tamagotchi in one paragraph.
Both R.O.B, which stands for Robotic Operating Buddy, and Gyromite are Nintendo's first foot forwards in bringing the NES to market in North America in October of 1985. Nintendo's ploy in the design of the NES and packaging it with R.O.B. was to make it as little like a video game system as possible and more like a high tech toy that hooked up to your TV. The notorious video game crash of 1983 had made retailers and consumers very weary and untrustworthy of video games (I am aware this is an oversimplification). Even in the marketing, Nintendo didn't mention it was a video game system and went with "Entertainment System" which Nintendo put that right in the name, foregoing the portmanteau of Famicom that they went with in Japan.
Gyromite was developed hand in hand with R.O.B. by Nintendo's R&D 1 and their stories are intrinsically linked, unfortunately for both the robot and the game, it ment they where both kinda rushed. For the New York launch of the NES the US localization team ran out of time to correct the Japanese title screen for Gyromite and It appears as Robot Gyro in every cartridge released. The gameplay in Gyromite is fairly straight forward, you just need to set up R.O.B. with all the accessories for this game, dial him in with the test screen function to make sure that he sees your television appropriately, put the second player controller in R.O.B.'s interface aperture and start to play the game. Once you start a level (there are 65 between game mode A and B) you will instruct R.O.B. to pick up a gyro (the red top like thing to his right) with the use of the first player controller have him through a series of commands place the gyro into the spinner. The spinner will rotate the gyro fairly quickly and once it gets up to speed it well sustain itself spinning for quite a while. Then, depending on your obstructions in the level, you will either place the gyro atop the red platform or the blue platform that is attached to the controller aperture in front of R.O.B. These platforms will depress the A or B button on the second player controller, which will in turn lower a red or blue platform/barricade on screen. There are a couple of different modes to this game, one has you controlling the main character, Professor Hector, and another has the Professor sleepwalking through the level so you need to give R.O.B. his instructions quickly as you can to make sure the Professor makes it to the end of the level without dying.
Each of these levels are timed and completing the game in its entirety using R.O.B. can be challenging. It is possible however, to beat this game without using R.O.B. and just using another person to play with. Playing this game with another human being unfortunately makes the game far too easy too complete. When I first got a hold of this game, I did not have a fully functional R.O.B. nor a friend that wanted to play 20 year old games with me at the time, so I had to get a bit creative. The first time I played through and beat this game I controlled the second player controller using my feet. It actually took me about another ten years to get my hands on a R.O.B. He was not functional when I purchased him, but I was able to take him apart and repair him. Once I had him up and running, I immediately started on a quest to beat this game using my newly repaired friend, I was able to complete this goal over a weekend.
For those of you who don't know the Starpath Supercharger is a add on for the Atari2600 that increases graphics and memory capacity for the system that uses cassette tapes and a cassette tape player of your choice to load the games. As far as I know these 10 (see the last picture) are the only ones that where comershally available, there is only one or two more (not sure will have to do more research) that you had to send off for as mail order to get that was not ever available in stores. Also these games include a verson of Frogger made by SEGA that I had never seen before, that is cool.
This is a new homebrew game from Magic Quest Media, I got the boxed set that came with what you see here. The issue that I ran into is that originally it wouldn't play on my FP-GBC showing an error code on the screen (see last picture) and I had to rip the ROM and put it on my everdrive to get it to play, I tried to play it on my original GBC but it played with no sound. I'm going to do more testing to see if it might be an issue with my hardware or something else but I need to find another GBC to test it on.
I don't know why but I have always had a soft spot in my heart for fishing games, even though I am not that good at them. The gameplay is very similar to Super Black Bass, even though that one is slightly better. I don't have the manual to this one yet and I'm sure that would help with understanding how to better play it, so I will hunt that down next. The visuals on this one are pretty good and I am looking forward to spending more time with this game.