ok...this thing was an educational thing. it used VHS tapes and a VCR. Basically the system took 4 D batteries (god didn't all our old toys use the monstrocities?) hooked up to your VCR somehow (I think it used the VCR's "IN" RCA jacks). It had a whole set of VHS tapes with educational stuff on them. The system was white and blue. It had 4 colored buttons on the top (Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green) as well as a Green worm with a Smile with a green LED (for correct answers) and a Red Worm with a Frown and a red LED (for wrong answers) Basically you were asked things on the tape and you pressed one of the 4 buttons to give an answer. If you were right, the green worm lit up, if you were wrong, the red one lit up. I don't know if this is what some people would qualify as a "game system" or not. But damnit I'm on a nostalgia kick right now and I'd like to know. Oh and BTW it WAS NOT the View-Master Interactive Vision. This was something different.
This description sounds very familiar. I never had one, but I recall seeing something that matches this description a while back possibly at a flea market or something.
I think I know what you mean. Was it VideoSmarts, with that one rat that looked like Chuck E. Cheese and sang his ABC's in a Rock 'n' Roll tune?
damn you can't find any info on this thing without the exact name. Yeah that's what I saw laying in a heep of misc crap, couldn't figure out if it worked really or exactly how it worked. and it had no box.
there were also interactive shooting games on those systems. still wondering, how they really worked on the program side???
The shooting games worked like this. the console would overlay some graphics, while the video tape played through. You then shot the screen and the console figured out where you shot and what the overlay would do. the video in the background just played. say for example, the haunted house. it would play a video of you going through the haunted house, and the console would overlay ghosts and stuff.
