View Full Version : Sewing machine that runs on a gameboy color?
hellraiser
03-01-2011, 09:14 PM
I really didint even know were to put this thread but it is a game boy color soo.....
Now ive seen it all...:eek 2:
Any of you guys seen this before? Saw this ad on craigs list (i have nothing to do with it) and had to share...
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/hsh/2239428967.html
Stringfellow
03-01-2011, 10:15 PM
I seem to remember it being discussed here a long time ago. I also remember seeing it on ebay a long time ago. If I was a bigger collector I would snag it.
I vaguely remember seeing this in gaming magazines, but I've never seen one outside of that.
kedawa
03-01-2011, 10:21 PM
I've never come across one, but I read about these on assembler years ago. I'd pick it up of it were in my area. $125 doesn't seem too bad, especially if the sewing machine is actually good.
orangest
03-01-2011, 10:48 PM
Any of you guys seen this before?
Roughly 6 years and 1 username ago... (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?p=617328&highlight=izek#post617328) ;)
jordandavid
03-01-2011, 11:43 PM
that is bizarre... like a gameboy printer only an embroidery machine. truly a collectors item. I'm not really sure what demographic they were marketing that toward, though. (Probably why it never took off)
Gameguy
03-02-2011, 12:03 AM
I'm not really sure what demographic they were marketing that toward, though.
Making child labour fun?
dnehthend
03-02-2011, 01:19 AM
I remember reading a small article about this back in the day, I think it was in gamepro
jordandavid
03-02-2011, 02:14 AM
Making child labour fun?
I heard it comes preloaded with the Nike swoosh.
Satoshi_Matrix
03-02-2011, 05:27 AM
Yeah, i saw this in a 1999 issue of EGM if I recall. Really cool gimmicky Japanese thingy. I'd get it for $125 for sure.
portnoyd
03-02-2011, 07:32 AM
We have one of these complete in the box. We paid $200 for it, I think. Don't bother if it doesn't have the GB cart (as shown in orangest's link). With the GB system and cart, it's worth it to snag the system for $125, box or no box.
Enigmus
03-02-2011, 07:55 AM
Making child labour fun?
Made in China, used for child labor in China.
wingzrow
03-02-2011, 08:48 AM
That's nothing. There's a gameboy color color app that allows you to remove the speed inhibitor on a series of motorbike/scooters. California is none to pleased about this since they don't want scooters at 40mph on the highways.
Sothy
03-02-2011, 09:47 AM
The nes controller for parapelgics is my fave weird crap but the gameboy sewing machine and snes exercise bike are close followers.
fahlim003
03-02-2011, 10:31 AM
Yeah, i saw this in a 1999 issue of EGM if I recall. Really cool gimmicky Japanese thingy. I'd get it for $125 for sure.
It was the April 2001 issue of EGM - at least, that's an issue I have which directly references it.
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/306/020311004.th.jpg (http://img696.imageshack.us/i/020311004.jpg/)
NayusDante
03-02-2011, 02:12 PM
It makes sense, at least in hindsight. How many household devices are available today with an LCD display? My printer cost $20 and has a color backlit LCD that's better than the GBC display. Back then, they saw the usefulness of a display and input system, but it was cheaper to implement this way than to actually include the hardware in the device itself.
I'm sure that there's plenty of "premium" model sewing machines available today with similar functionality, but the hardware is built-in now.
Icarus Moonsight
03-02-2011, 08:33 PM
They had a bunch of these at Big Lots some years ago... Think they were ~$100. So yeah, I've seen a few of them. They didn't do anything for me at all. LOL
I'm sure that there's plenty of "premium" model sewing machines available today with similar functionality, but the hardware is built-in now.
Oh yes! Large touch screens are available on some. The wife's embroidery machine connects to her laptop via USB. That sucker was almost $1000... The ones with the big touch screens and built in software make that seem very cheap. There are some design station type units that cost as much as an economy class car.
NerdXCrewWill
03-02-2011, 10:57 PM
That's nothing. There's a gameboy color color app that allows you to remove the speed inhibitor on a series of motorbike/scooters. California is none to pleased about this since they don't want scooters at 40mph on the highways.
Holy guacamole! I need to know more about this. I Googled for like ten minutes to no success. What's the scoop?
Icarus Moonsight
03-03-2011, 08:26 AM
GBA was used for on-the-fly CPU tuning also. I think they used a flashcart for the software though. Mostly rice burners... Go figure. :p
wingzrow
03-03-2011, 08:41 AM
Holy guacamole! I need to know more about this. I Googled for like ten minutes to no success. What's the scoop?
The scooters are called "Aprilias". From what I understand they actually have a programing component on them that uses a gameboy color cart for speed controlling. All someone had to do was create a rom hack that let you do whatever you want and bam, super fast scooter. The real cart it's self is only given out by aprillia dealers & the like, so it's one of the rarest gameboy color games to my knowledge.
Here's a picture.
http://www.apriliaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=158051
Bojay1997
03-03-2011, 12:19 PM
The scooters are called "Aprilias". From what I understand they actually have a programing component on them that uses a gameboy color cart for speed controlling. All someone had to do was create a rom hack that let you do whatever you want and bam, super fast scooter. The real cart it's self is only given out by aprillia dealers & the like, so it's one of the rarest gameboy color games to my knowledge.
Here's a picture.
http://www.apriliaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=158051
I don't really understand what the point of making this a Gameboy cartridge would be. Dealerships have had laptops and other PC based computers since the 1980s. Why didn't they just create an interface between a standard computer and the on-board computer in the scooter?
wingzrow
03-04-2011, 06:29 PM
Who knows. Gameboy color games and systems must have been really really abundant and easy to make for that situation to have pieced together the way it did.
Famidrive-16
03-05-2011, 01:21 AM
It was the April 2001 issue of EGM - at least, that's an issue I have which directly references it.
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/306/020311004.th.jpg (http://img696.imageshack.us/i/020311004.jpg/)
The funny thing is that almost everyone thought this was the April Fool's joke for the issue.
Icarus Moonsight
03-05-2011, 11:43 AM
It was... The grill and tie organizer. O_O
rolenta
03-06-2011, 04:09 PM
I wrote about it in the May 2004 issue of Manci Games.
I'm glad this post came up. I own one but I haven't come across it while I'm creating my new game room. I better look again.
rolenta
03-06-2011, 07:18 PM
Whew! I found the sewing machine, along with my Coleco Telstar Arcade (which I also completely forgot about) and my Beefsteak Tomato Beachball!
SparTonberry
03-07-2011, 11:55 AM
It was... The grill and tie organizer. O_O
I think that was the year of the Sega Neptune prank?
I wonder if they said how many people actually tried to buy one?