Ran across an article about that controversial game Night Trap on the Sega cd and it reminded me of middle school when I got straight A’s (a rarity for me) because my parents said if I did I could get a gaming system so I picked the Sega cd since it was the newest thing. We get to the checkout and my dad sees on the box that it can’t run unless it’s connected to the Genesis. So we got that too. Sega cd flopped and I ended up playing the Genesis until I got a job in high school and got the PS1.
Any of y’all ever have a Sega cd, Neo geo, turbo Grafix, lynx, CD-I, etc?
Not a console, but I bought a Blackberry Playbook tablet new retail when they were cheap at less than $100 and discontinued.
Not previously owning a tablet (or a Blackberry) previously, I didn't understand that RiM had it's own proprietary OS that would soon become a deserted walled garden for apps.
I turned it on a couple of years back to see if it was usable for anything but it was nothing but dead ends & clunky compared to the modern Android.
We had a Texas Instrument keyboard computer console with cartridges growing up in front of the CRT dial TV without a remote.
My dad got interested at one point and started mail-ordering games on cartridge through the catalogue. I remember having Moon Patrol, Parsec and a Popeye game that didn't work properly.
Most of the games much like the C64 used that awful one button red joystick 🕹 that had such a tendency to break.
When I was very little my parents had the Atari home computer with games on disk. I haven’t thought about moon patrol in a very long time
I can still picture the bouncing of the wheels on the undulating terrain.
And the sweet MIDI-style background track.