Gadgetory

in 1977 a certain time annular in Japan made their first entry into the home game console market that company was Nintendo in that system was the color TV game six jugo Shimano game simulator Hara today be game 15 choosing a cioppino carotids every game now Nintendo is actually a much older company than a lot of people realize they actually had their start in the late 1800s as a card game manufacturer and over the years they have had a very large number of different businesses under their belt from owning a taxicab company to making a line of instant rice to even owning a TV station and most of these businesses didn't really pan out but they finally hit their stride in the 60s with toy manufacturing now with toys they got really big at first with this little extendable arm thing and then a really good line of light guns but things really changed in the 70s when they started seeing the boom of video games Nintendo's first exposure with game systems was with the Magnavox Odyssey which is one of the oldest systems to come out in the US and was popular thanks to the game table-tennis which became much much bigger when it was basically copied and real released by Atari as pong now Nintendo released the Magnavox Odyssey in Japan and that gave me the idea to eventually make their own system which we now know as the TV game 6 this was actually something that was licensed from Magnavox to use the pong design and they actually made the hardware alongside the Mitsubishi the game 6 was a very very simple concept and system it just had two knobs to dial players to play basically just six different variations of table tennis thus the name the TV game six you've had three different modes in each of those votes had a single or double paddle option now the thing about the TV game six that made it such a success in Japan wasn't the fact that it was just another pong game which I mean was a lot of part of it but it was actually the most affordable one at only being 9800 yen so here we have the actual TV Game six and there's a couple different models of these that were made and this is one of the actual first line ones so there's a couple things they changed later that were well improved this one's doesn't have this one isn't the only kind that's in the white color later versions came out in a bright orange the knobs in it are smaller so it's a little less comfortable and this design is only powered by C batteries which is a little inconvenient and later models they added a DC option to actually given constant power now as you can see these are the controls in the middle to set everything up with different game types turning in all that kind of stuff it's all in Japanese which I can't read so we need to translate this the words are freaking out a lot I think we need actually take a photo to comfortably translate your word because it's it is not happy at the moment so let's check out the main controls on the bottom here now I think this one said power earlier yeah so this is the power switch that turned it off the green button is reset so that just starts the system and then I think this is for switching between the three game types I need a high light better yeah hockey tennis and volleyball yeah so those are the three game modes and then there's two different versions of each one so would actually play on this thing we of course need both two players so we brought on our local all things Japanese or guy who's most recently been to Japan ken bolito yeah be honest guys I've done a lot of research on this thing I may have this thing wouldn't talk about the video but I haven't used it firsthand at all so this is gonna be new for everyone here right now let's turn it on and see how this goes hopefully not horribly and hey that's the name color TV it's really blurry yeah resolution wise especially I mean I'm sure it's like scaling my crazy systems from 70s that this is a 40 year old system so hey this is so this is a regular tennis well it's different the other way now oh so it's literally just a different like overlay and the scores are the same by the way we changed sports but it's just I know so it does add more yeah it adds it adds more barriers at least so it does actually change the gameplay a little whoa I love that you can change this Midway by the way there's no just no pause at all there's over the hose and your positions are in the same place I didn't actually translate what these other switches do let's find out oh that made you small oh oh it's faster oh here we go here we go here we go whoa whoa what oh this is the other boat this is the double paddle mode this is how its six games and not three in the process of trying to get this to work on an American TV apparently this thing hooked up to Japanese channel 2 in America that's that's channel 96 I want to meet the person who's like an expert on this game where there's like yeah I know the game is six yeah no I never lose well there's like it's just timing there's no sense of acceleration on the knob either so it's like if you could turn the knob a certain yeah and then it just kind of like flatlines in terms of your speed so you can't even you know really quickly just go down to the other side the corner just have to be frantic which they did fix in the later versions of this for them and a couple changes one of them was they actually made it so it would stop when you got to the edges so you couldn't wrap around like this repeatedly so this got a terrible but the fun thing is that that was actually kind of an intentional choice on Nintendo's because after this thing came out not even well a wonderful week later they released this guy the tv-game 15 which was about 500 yen more I think and had over twice the number of games and is basically just the all-out better version of what the game six did I mean let's just even take this guy out so even like right away something you could tell us a lot better controllers that you can actually hold instead of being hunched over the same unit not to mention the fact that as far as the internal hardware goes the game sticks is basically the same thing they just handicapped it and didn't handicap the 15 so you have board game options to choose from so like with the six it's got a lot of games but they're really just variations of the same core stuff the reason why you have an odd number is cuz there are seven Ripper games as to to promote and then there's one extra game which is a shooting game instead of a paddle one like all these guides wait why am i serving with a steady paddle no yeah they said that one of this must be a shooting game but how do you shoot or just do anything there isn't like what is a red button I guess you go to the system to fire okay so here's game 15 guys yeah so I mean the core gameplay is still more or less the same but having the actual side controller is a big improvement over having two people loom over the same console box just Nintendo keep doing what you're doing you know I'll I think this is a good start just you know someday might have a more successful system maybe do stuff with plumbers I don't know a really interesting takeaway from all this is the fact that this is the stuff that allowed Nintendo to kind of save themselves as a failing toy company and move on to making things like their own systems like the Game & Watch the Nintendo Entertainment System boy everything up until now with the switch is all pretty much thanks to pong