View Full Version : Where to find the TV-Boy III, built into PS style pad?
Zaxxon
11-24-2003, 03:45 AM
Does anyone know of a site that sells these online? These were usually commonly available in the UK. NTSC would be nice too.
Pantechnicon
11-24-2003, 10:11 AM
I've been pining for a TV Boy for about three years. There was a UK website called firebox.com that had them for sale about a year ago for something like forty pounds but sold out pretty quick :o It's just as well because I went so far as to call Firebox to ask them about U.S. compatibility. According to them it was PAL only.
TV Boy II, on the other hand, came in PAL and NTSC. atari2600.com often stocks the PAL version, and every blue moon they have an NTSC available for an extra hundred dollars @_@ . Good luck, friend.
Wow, are they really that rare?
I own TV-Boy (with Atari-style joystick ports), TV-Boy II (joystick ports removed) and Super TV-Boy (redesigned).
Look here for pics:
http://www.btinternet.com/~thomas.holzer/Odds.htm
I once opened my TV-Boy and it features a PAL/NTSC switch inside.
The address on the paperwork is:
Systema (UK) Ltd, Unit 4 Eskdale Road, Winnersh Triangle, Reading, RG11 5TY, England, but don't know if they still exist.
Also, TV-Boy has 'Defender', which had to be removed on TV-Boy II and Super TV-Boy.
Zaxxon
11-24-2003, 07:17 PM
Actually, the PAL versions aren't rare at all, just the NTSC versions. I don't know why that is because if they made more NTSC versions available they could easily sell tons of them. It's not like they're afraid to sell pirate items in NTSC because they have no problems selling NTSC Famicom clones here. I saw that firebox.com once sold the PS version I'm looking for but I'm sure they weren't the only ones who sold it. Someone else must carry it. There may be a NTSC/PAL switch inside but AFAIK you would also need to change all the ROMs to the NTSC versions as well which would be next to impossible with that microscopic epoxy blob technology.