Comments on: rambo tv game: the video game console that time forgot

By: me

me — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:51:48 +0000

thank you VERY VERY MUCH for this post. i had one of this myself when i was young. i never tought i’d see one again. you’ve made my day

By: Elltry

Elltry — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:11:49 +0000

I also have one of that game in early ‘90. It was very modern for those days in Poland. I remember I had “no name” – only it was written “192 video game”. Later there were many variations of these games under different names and more games. Joysticks were poor quality, spoiled after a few movements, but the match from the Commodore. I remember that first game suddenly become the last game (can not remember the name) – perhaps something in the EPROM confused …
Also, I have never seen any cardriges – from Commodore doesn’t match.
At the weekend I go to the cellar, and I find it – maybe I still work – I would like to play River Raid

By: dacian

dacian — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:40:44 +0000

I used to have this console in the early 90s. It was very popular here in Romania, and I assume all of eastern Europe at least. All the kids had these, so I think they were really cheap. I remember some kids had two or three of them. They were sold in markets alongside all kinds of pirated electronic and apparel brands like Plima, Adibas, Osaka, Roibok, and my favorite – Panasony. They were made extremely cheap with empty plastic cases with very small electronic components. The joysticks used to break into pieces a few days after purchase and we were forced to play by pressing the contacts inside with our fingers. It was very uncomfortable and you could easily get cuts or scratches from them. They did actually have over a hundred games (the number varied by model) but they were all at the 80s level of design, most really bad atari clones. No sound, of course. You could cycle through the games in a single direction by repeatedly pushing one of the 4 metal switches. Some of the models had a game cartridge reader (below “video game system”) but I never ever saw any cartridges.
Good times, though