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Posted on Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Individual-Quarter31 to r/retrogaming | Answered! | 2 points
Hi guys, I'm looking for a very specific console that I couldn't find on Google. It's design was a steering wheel with a yellow seat and it was mainly focused on retro pixelated games. The corner buttons were orange, I remember and it was a plug and play type of console you had to wire to the tv in order to play.
I remember a few : one was a game about a boat you controlled left and right and submarines were shooting at you and you had to shoot torpedos to destroy them.
Another one was a game where you played a small boy that had to construct things with bricks and stuff but it's more vague as to what was the objective you had to accomplish.
And another game I can remember was a spaceship you controlled up and down and you had to face multiple enemy spaceships that were, well, you guessed it, trying to destroy yours.
I hope someone will read this and find what console I'm talking about. Send me the link if you think you got it.
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@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by vlei90 | 1 point | Reply
Do you remember the years you played this console? Did it take cartridges?
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Individual-Quarter31 (OP) | 0 points | Reply
No cartridges. I used to play on this console between maybe 2007 - 2008 when I was a kid.
Some more details to help : the screen menu was all black but the name of the mini-games were written in white and you had to scroll up and down to choose the mini-game you wished to play. There was a happy/nostalgic music playing in the background when launching the console.
You had to choose the source on the TV to play (I think it was HDMI 2 on my old Philips TV).
There was a green blue, yellow and red button on the right side of the steering wheel, orange buttons on top of the two sides of it, one button was big and yellow and there was arrows pointing every direction.
Some other games I remember : A brick breaker mini-game following the usual concept (you controlled a moving platform left and right and you had to destroy bricks using a ball by deflecting it to the bricks).
Two racing games, one that played like F-Zero, your car was on the foreground rolling on a straight line, and one with a red bike that played like a side scroller with other bikes trying to win the first place...
As for the company who made this console, I have no clue. I don't remember seing the title of the company who made the games when wiring the console to the TV.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by vlei90 | 1 point | Reply
Yeah, could be tough to identify something like this. Maybe someone will see this and help you out. Good luck!
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Individual-Quarter31 (OP) | 0 points | Reply
I hope so but you are the only person who answered and I already posted this on r/videogames but no one answered. 😥
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by vlei90 | 1 point | Reply
Would your family know? Have you asked them?
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Individual-Quarter31 (OP) | 2 points | Reply
Not yet but I will try, thanks !
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by xXsaberstrikeXx | 1 point | Reply
I’m going to guess it was a generic plug and play controller that came with games pre-installed, similar to this one:
https://youtu.be/dlPgvG4lTRY
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Individual-Quarter31 (OP) | 1 point | Reply
Well it's not this one but it's a bit similar. The steering wheel was a complete circle and it was gray/black I think, it didn't have those yellow edges.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by IForgotThePassIUsed | 1 point | Reply
is it one of these?https://www.ebay.com/itm/234762901945
Also - might be relevant, if you can find the names of the games, the arcade emulator MAME started supporting some of these plug n play ROMS, so even if you can't find the original wheel/controller game if you can find the packaging, you maye be able to find otu the names of the games, and the ROMS might have been dumped online, and you may be able to play them in MAME.
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by Individual-Quarter31 (OP) | 1 point | Reply
It really is similar but not quite. And none of the game displayed on the back of the package where on my console. I think the model is very rare so it will be super hard to find...
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by MoSafar23 | 1 point | Reply
was it this thing?[www.worthpoint.com]
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by Individual-Quarter31 (OP) | 2 points | Reply
YES THAT'S IT !!! IT'S THIS ONE BRO, THANK YOU SO MUCH !!! (Sorry for caps, I'm just so excited).
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by MoSafar23 | 1 point | Reply
No worries man, happy to help
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by Individual-Quarter31 (OP) | 1 point | Reply
By the way, how did you find it ?
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by MoSafar23 | 1 point | Reply
Googled your description
@ Thursday, September 21st 2023 by Individual-Quarter31 (OP) | 1 point | Reply
Well ok then, but I still don't know which keywords you used.
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