Waddington's 2001 The Game Machine

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Waddington's 2001 The Game Machine is a hybrid of calculator and game console , which was released in 1978 and is therefore counted as the 2nd generation of consoles . The manufacturer was Waddingtons House of Games Inc. , at that time based in Evanston (Illinois) . The device was offered on the German market for 199 D-Marks without a German description.

features

The display consists of a single-line, twelve-digit, seven-segment fluorescent display. In addition, a small speaker was built into the device.

The only games released for the console were the four fixed games:

  1. Shooting Gallery
  2. Black jack
  3. Code Hunter
  4. Grand Prix

For each game there are templates (overlays) for the keyboard as well as for the display. The device was operated with six 1.5-volt baby cells or with a power supply adapter.

Others

Waddington's House of Games also offered the House of Games Mini Game Machine , a handheld console that was offered on the English market as the Vtech Mini Game Machine and also as the Grandstand The Game Machine . The later Waddingtons Game Machine 2 had five games.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 2nd generation consoles. In: The Evolution of Video Games: A Review - Part 2. The 8-Bit Era. ingame, January 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ Manual , p. 10
  3. ↑ Game Machine. In: Sometimes intellectual and often uninteresting: game electronics underdeveloped pedagogically. In: Computerwoche , February 1, 1980.
  4. ^ Aiming toy at executives. Waddingtons launches first electronic game. Marketing, Vol. 84 (1979), p. 5.
  5. ↑ Manual , p. 2.
  6. ^ Waddington's House of Games. In: Changing Times. The Kiplinger Magazine. November 1980, p. 41.
  7. ^ House of Games Mini Game Machine on the Handheld Games Museum website
  8. ↑ Vtech Mini Game Machine on the Handheld Games Museum website
  9. ^ Grandstand The Game Machine was offered on the Handheld Games Museum website .
  10. ↑ Waddingtons. In: Popular Electronics , 18, 206 (1980).