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Magnavox Odyssey Shooting Gallery
Lightgun mit “Spielen”, 1972, ist sogar glaube ich in einer älteren Maniac mit Artikel über Ralph Baer und das Odyssey abgebildet.
Kid Vid Voice Module
Made by Coleco. This was a cassette recorder and cartridge interface. Additional wire connects recorder to joystick port. Voices and songs tell player what to do on screen. Tape shuts off automatically to wait for player input. 3 tapes per game, only games were Berenstain Bears and Smurfs Save the Day.
Supercharger
Made by Starpath. This is an add-on device that improves the Atari VCS memory, graphics, and sound capability. The unit itself contains 6K RAM and 2K ROM. ROM is in top 2K and RAM is banked in lower 2K. Games were distributed on cassette tape. By plugging the Supercharger into the VCS and connecting its cable (with a standard 1/8″ jack on the end) to a standard cassette tape player, games could be “loaded in” to memory. The Supercharger unit contains 2K of ROM, but more importantly it adds an additional 6K of screen RAM to the VCS (a huge improvement over the hardware’s 128 bytes). Phaser Patrol was also included. The unit initially retailed for $70, but in January 1983 the price was reduced to $45.
Findet sich sicher noch einiges zu den anderen Konsolen der ersten und zweiten Generation.
Es gibt unter anderem noch ein Voice Sample Modul für entweder das Intelli- oder Colecovision, müsste ich aber auch nachschauen. Die meisten Sonderperipherien haben eines gemeinsam, sie waren nicht sehr efolgreich, sind heute selten und haben teils enorme Sammlerpreise.
