Casio loopy gameplay10/3/2023 ![]() It was followed up with the Color TV-Game 15 sporting 15 games, then later the Color TV-Game Racing 112 which boasted a steering wheel used in a top down racing game. A pong clone with 6 games built in it was a roaring success, selling over a million copies. Nintendo’s first foray into the home console market wasn’t the Famicom but was back in 1977 with the Color TV-Game 6. I do hope someone does decide to tackle this one day, but there is a lot more to getting this thing working well on MiSTer than meets the eye from looking at a technical spec. Creating overlays and getting the controls to work on a regular pad would be difficult enough. For such a technically basic system, I think this would require a fairly dedicated team to make it work. The controls are also very esoteric with a couple of spinners and a reset button on the controller. The games also game with translucent overlays that you would stick onto your TV to give you the boards to play one, and make them make sense. The cards you use don’t contain ROMS, they have codes which alters the pong game inside to make it into hockey, skiing etc. The tech is basic, there are no chips on there. The first game console, and obviously desirable for historical purposes. ![]() If there is one missing you think should be added let me know and I will do a wee write up for it. At some point I may flesh this section out to make it more comprehensive but in the meantime I will cover some of the more iconic ones. ![]() The first generation of games consoles were essentially all pong clones, there were a lot of them and they were very similar. If I have missed any consoles then please let me know so I can update the list. I will see about adding some images for the systems when I have some time to make this less of a block of text if it doesn't make it too cluttered. This post is no doubt littered with typos, so any more egregious ones let me know. Since I started writing this a few months ago, then got sidetracked, many systems on the list have since released (mainly thanks to Rysha) so instead of deleting I have updated what I wrote before. Hopefully it is a fun read for people who are interested in these discussions and old (often obscure) blocks of plastic, and who knows, maybe it will even inspire someone to check out, or take on make a core for, a system they had never heard of before.įull disclaimer: I am not a developer, and if anyone has better info on the viability of these systems I would love to hear and can update this post. Off the back of that I decided to cover all the generations, largely because I have a real interest in different consoles and this side of vide game history, but I also thought it would be a great place to have these fun discussions that pop up about what we would like to see, and what we could one day see, on MiSTer. You may have seen a similar smaller post I did covering the viability of 5th Generation Consoles in the Atari Jaguar thread that people seemed to enjoy and it lead to some really positive discussions. Hi guys, so this has been a long time coming from me, it is a lengthy breakdown of all the various consoles released that we currently don't have on MiSTer and some musings about whether we could one day see cores for them. ![]()
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