Comments on: Rambo Tv Game: the Video Game Console That Time Forgot

By: T3M3L13

T3M3L13 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:57:18 +0000

God…what memories..I remember I was six then..and me and my friends from the block went to the market and I saw it on the table, it was for sale.I told my grandfather I wanted it and he said “yes of course I’ll buy it for you”.And the next day I came back to the market with my friends and I said to them in front of the seller “My grandfather said he’ll buy me this sh*t!” And the seller gave me that look and he said “Yeah rigt…in your dreams maybe”…Guess what happened: the next day, early in the morning, I barely woke up when I saw my grandfather coming home with that seller and, of course, the console to install it for me.And then he gave me the look I’ll never forget..it was some kind of respect and envy at the same time…

By: Cristi

Cristi — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:19:57 +0000

Could you please mail me a list of the built in games from rambo? i used to play this whe i was little, back in the 90`s and it was awesome. And yes i`m from Eastern Europe, Romania. My mail is rodinrk@yahoo.com

Thank You,

Cristi

By: zorbi

zorbi — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:59:13 +0000

Hehe I had one of these too in Hungary in the early 90′s. We played so much with it, but the original joysticks went wrong almost immediately. We had to replace them with some more durable models.

By: bojan

bojan — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:16:08 +0000

hehehe My first console too. Croatia 93/96 This brings tears to my eyes becouse back then me and my twin brother play it together and smile and now we don’t speak for about 7 years ((((

By: Brainows

Brainows — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:30:48 +0000

Ooh la la… I used to have it in early nineties in Ukraine and as someone mentioned above everyone in Eastern Europe had them those days. The thing was that first joystick would break the very first hour of play so then you go really careful with second one. Crazy stuff

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:40:19 +0000

Your game is called River Ride
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Raid

Salutari

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:38:43 +0000

I have a picture of my little bro, playing River Raid on Rambo.After I’ll find it he’s going to publish it on facebook and brag to all his friends, he’s the one that played the oldest Activision game first )

By: adi

adi — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:19:31 +0000

I had one just like the one above in the pictures and a few days ago in a chat with an old friend we remembered the good old days. there was a game in this console, I was nuts for it with an white airplane that you had to fly between walls and you had to shoot tanks and helicopters. it was a lot of fun, can anyone remember the name of that game or if there is a version of it to be played, please

By: who's this guy

who's this guy — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:54:58 +0000

wooooooooooo i miss this shit .. haha

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