non-games on retro platforms?
Do you know of any non-games on older game platforms?
Like the Compton Encyclopedia on the Sega Saturn. Or the lots of titles on the Philips CD-i that are not games. Do platforms like Playstation, SNES and Mega Drive also have non games? I mean, more like 'programs', reference stuff.
on ebay UK i was keeping my eye on this cartridge for MSX, the Koran, obviously very rare. I think the bidding closed at approx GBP 100.
Taboo on the NES?
Knowledge is Power.
Power corrupts.
Study hard.
Be evil.
Color Bar Generator, by Videosoft, for the Atari 2600.
"As you traitors roast in your own juices, I will be safely ensconced three miles below the earth's surface, listening to my wax-cylinder player and enjoying a delicious phosphate!"
The King James Version and New International Version of the Bible for the Game Boy.
<Blackjax> YES!!! MIDGET WRESTLING ON THE SPANISH CHANNEL!!!!
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God
Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
How about BASIC for the Atari 2600? Compton's encyclopedia, that crappy "Animals" or whatever zoo reference, the CD+G samplers, and Sherlock Holmes made their way to damn near every first gen "multimedia" system. I'm sure you could consider the VCD movies for CDi. There's the Nintendo (NES) Lottery cart. Breakfast is ready!
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Alex Maer and others have released their music albums on NES cartridge format:
http://www.headlessbarbie.com/
Practically 3/4ths of the VIS library wouldn't qualify as games.
I want to say there were a few different language programs for Game Boy...
Check out the Kleppings!
Make Way For Madness!
"9 is a poor man's 11, and 11 is a Baker's Ten."
Infinite Lives
There's the Miracle Piano Teaching System for Genesis, and I think Amiga also.
Originally Posted by TheShawn
There were some personal organizer programs for the Game Boy, which didnt do any good since the contents werelost when you shut it off IIRC.
&, some sort of sewing machine control program for the GameBoy as well.
"The big things that...nerds like to argue about might not actually matter that much."
..And NES & SNES. The Miracle Piano Teaching System did the rounds.
As far as art and drawing applications are concerned, there's always Mario Paint for SNES, Wacky Worlds Creativity Studio for Genesis, and Color A Dinosaur for NES.
CV Drum for the Colecovision, a drum machine program:
http://games.kaotic.ca/game.aspx?GID=3174
Last edited by Tetsu; 02-16-2009 at 09:17 AM.
The NES also has Videomation and Tiny Toon Adventures Cartoon Workshop.
And I don't think anybody mentioned it yet - Mario Paint would qualify in this category, right?
Dan B.
If you look at Japanese releases on disc-based systems, there are usually loads of non-games. A lot of educational stuff and a lot of "gallery" type releases that just have media related to a license (usually anime, sometimes live-action stuff).
I have a "how to care for cats" release on PlayStation. :P
Playstation had a whole teaching package with a ton of different discs. Lightspan I believe. Here's a link to someones eBay auction thread from a while ago.
Vectrex had Animaction and Melody Master, both light pen programs that are a little tough to consider games.
The first one you're thinking of is Personal Organizer by a company called Infogenius. And it does have a battery backup, so information is not lost when it's powered off.
Infogenius also made a few language translation carts for Gameboy as well: English, Spanish, etc.
The Sewing Machine cart was a GBC title made for use with a Singer-made sewing machine called the IZEK. You bought the sewing machine, cart and a GBC with a color scheme that matched the sewing machine. What makes this really cool is that the sewing machine itself has a non-detachable GBC link cable built into it.
Ah yes. Like the Saturn's Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series. I also bought a random Lupin III game once, just to see what it would be like, and it wasn't a game at all.
Manci Games magazine #1 (May 2004) pp 5-7 "Power Up" feature lists several Game Boy applications like this. Thats where I THOUGHT I read the org. cart didnt have battery backup (which is why I typed "IIRC").
"The big things that...nerds like to argue about might not actually matter that much."
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