The SF-1 SNES TV (スーパーファミコンテレビSF1?) (also known as the Sharp Science Fiction-1) is a television produced by Sharp Corporation with a built-in licensed Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Released only to Japanese markets, the unit retailed in 1990 as a next generation sequel to the 1983 C1 NES TV also manufactured by Sharp and licensed by Nintendo. Like the C1, the SF-1 was noted as having superior picture quality to the SNES.
The C1 NES TV (ファミコンテレビC1?) (also known as the My C1 Computer TV (マイコンピュータテレビC1?)) is a television produced by Sharp Corporation with a built-in licensed Nintendo Entertainment System. Originally released in Japan, the unit was released in the US in 1989 as the Sharp Nintendo Television. The C1 NES TV is notable for having provided the high-quality screenshots displayed in video game magazines of the period, due to its having slightly better picture quality than the NES.
Used to demo games in stores, it features a time play limiter and auto reset. Designed to allow people to play a game and decide if they want to buy it. Rack mounted with a Nintendo monitor and found in toy stores. Think a NES neo geo! An 11 slot at that. Great stuff.
An excellent unit. Extremely rare and hard to get.
The Nintendo M82 is a demonstration unit for the Nintendo Entertainment System to allow customers to try games in-store before purchasing them. The full title on the machine was the M82 Game Selectable Working Product Display. The machine was fundamentally different from the more arcade orientated PlayChoice, because it used consumer NES carts instead of proprietary ROM chips.
The M82 could hold up to 12 games, which were visible (on end) through small windows and were numbered 1 - 12. Unlike the Japanese Famicom Box, a similar demo unit that demanded specially-made cartridges, the M82 accepted any standard NTSC game cartridge. The games were selected by pressing a red button on the front of the unit. Up to two controllers and one NES Zapper could be connected and were held on small shelves on the lower front of the unit. The play time could be set by the store via a knob on the back of the unit; this could be 30 seconds, 3 minutes, 6 minutes, 128 minutes or unlimited.
Nintendo also developed other in-store demonstration units, however the M82 seems to be the common variety of these Nintendo systems.
that jogged a memory from my childhood. i remember reading about the supernes tv at the time it was released. shame they never brought them out of japan. and the M82, my local alders had one. me and my friends used to go play it regularly because it was free, and nobody else seemed to care about playing on it.
I always was upset that Panasonic Q never made it here as I wanted it, just not bad enough to eat it on greedy import sites for something that wouldn't do english games. I knew of the two older tv set console combos' as they were always something kind of cool but also excessively expensive then and even now unless you run into the dumb luck find of the year.
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Nintendo only let Phillips make Hotel Mario and the Zelda games as an apology for canceling the Nintendo Play Station. (Sony, though... they don't get an apology. As it sounds like they had a kind of mutual disgust for each other.)
Those TV's are awesome. I'm pretty sure that's the future as well - TV's integrated - I have an idea of how it will work. Sharp makes a lot of sense too. Even Sony (meh..) uses Sharp's panels today. Sharp has the best TV's IMO.
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TV-Game systems totally count. They're consoles, they're Nintendo, and they're retro so that fits. There's also a racing version of the system, and a block breaker title, then a final one had a port of nintendo's first arcade game computer othello.
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Panasonic Q. Best console ever!!! I'll get one one day if its the last thing I do. Also those TV's are awesome!!! I'd have the SNES one in my bedroom even now!
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How about the iQue Player? It was only available in China, and it's basically a N64 on a chip. The player came with demos and then you could download full games onto the chip through what are called "Ique Depots", which were mostly in gas stations (and apparently, you can still find them, because I don't think it was ever discontinued).
Oddly enough, it was released in 2003, two years after Gamecube's launch. Then again, it is China we're talking about.
Good call with the ique player, many people haven't heard of it, it's only interesting for collectors round here, and not exactly readily available, at least not here.
I believe Nintendo actually said they were releasing old tech, and (I hear) even then requiring users to use the memory card it shipped with, because they don't trust the Chinese to not pirate it.
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