tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167179463808604240.post5422630378948979878..comments2024-03-24T17:41:28.172-05:00Comments on The Golden Age Arcade Historian: The (Almost) Untold Story of TV POWWW - The Original(??) Video Game TV Game ShowKeith Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08421308095592306594noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167179463808604240.post-6369417280751937482017-11-24T11:46:14.231-06:002017-11-24T11:46:14.231-06:00I've found ads stretching back into July, thou...I've found ads stretching back into July, though Alex keeps telling me that they're just a mistake.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08039845633332428280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167179463808604240.post-73639494150734395662017-11-06T15:14:35.739-06:002017-11-06T15:14:35.739-06:00Btw, Atari had also released several dedicated hom...Btw, Atari had also released several dedicated home consoles prior to the VCS, so if Kempner's comments are from 1976, he would have been referring to one or more of those.Scott Stilphenhttp://www.ataricompendium.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167179463808604240.post-65190189441280923032017-11-06T15:10:35.277-06:002017-11-06T15:10:35.277-06:00The Atari VCS was actually available a few months ...The Atari VCS was actually available a few months earlier. I have 2 newspaper ads from August 1st, 1977 on my site:<br />http://www.ataricompendium.com/faq/faq.html#general1Scott Stilphenhttp://www.ataricompendium.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167179463808604240.post-43969863274246064252016-02-23T14:08:59.417-06:002016-02-23T14:08:59.417-06:00Addendum: One Houston cable TV provider (early 80s...Addendum: One Houston cable TV provider (early 80s) had a box installed on the wall with a long cable running to a calculator-type device. I don't remember if it was used as a remote control, but I do remember they used it to do live polling. They ran a live show and would let the audience vote on things and show the results. (Some kids I know may have prank called the show enough times that they stopped doing it.) They also did games people could play at home. I remember one that was called "life raft" or similar. The screen showed four crude computer boxes (rafts), and you voted A, B, C or D. The trick was to get as many people on the same raft without it sinking (say, 75%) so if too many people selected the same raft, it sunk. Not much of a point, but I remember trying it out. I thought back then they could use it to play Dragon's Lair (or similar adventure type game) letting majority rule on the choices made. I guess that means this was after DL came out.Allen Huffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06785680934278190478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167179463808604240.post-30304809042946743032016-02-23T14:03:53.991-06:002016-02-23T14:03:53.991-06:00In Houston, Texas (sometime before 1979), I rememb...In Houston, Texas (sometime before 1979), I remember a call in video game where the caller would say "Pow!" The game was very simple - maybe a block that would "fire" towards a moving target or something. Recently, when reading some Wiki pages on the old consoles, I ran across the reference to their unit being used in a call in video game, and I wondered if that is what I had seen. My father (an electronics tinkerer who repaired TVs for neighbor's and built kit electronics), said it was just triggered by sound and you could yell anything to trigger it. I wonder if he knew something about it, or was just guessing.Allen Huffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06785680934278190478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167179463808604240.post-22748787703238838852014-08-11T01:31:59.645-05:002014-08-11T01:31:59.645-05:00Namely on KTXL. I remember that station's Cap...Namely on KTXL. I remember that station's Cap'n Mitch hosting that on his cartoon show. It was also on KTVU in Oakland, first with Pat McCormick (Charley & Humphrey, Dialing for Dollars), then with the Barney character from Raleigh's "Barney's Army". KTVU's version was called "The Barney Show".Randy Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00277969255891210909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167179463808604240.post-40067613589764715972014-06-11T21:46:29.773-05:002014-06-11T21:46:29.773-05:00A variation of POWW also was done by a station in ...A variation of POWW also was done by a station in Sacramento, CA for it's movie breaks in 1980.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVkKov8V2Wc<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqgKmY4DDo<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFUjdwk47bcChris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.com