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TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! (media.piefed.world)
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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is the handsomest piece of analog gear I have ever seen. Absolute peak max sexiness, holy shite

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Bubble-economy Japan led the way for an insane amount of features, aesthetics, and innovation for personal electronics. Most of it was dead-sexy stuff.

One of my favorite examples, the Sony MSX HitBit F1XD:

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Is this a computer in a keyboard ? Staggering beauty. Magnificient arrow keys

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Is this a computer in a keyboard ? Staggering beauty.

Indeed! That's how it was done in the 80's.

The trend was built around keeping the cost down. That and a screen (TV) could cost as much as the whole unit and you probably already had one of those. Nowadays we don't think twice about our laptops coming with a screen, but if I could somehow keep the screen but replace the rest, I'd welcome the price cut that comes with it.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

I know capitalism is evil and all that jazz, but the Japanese consumer electronics boom was so sick

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Everything is a rectangle now 😭