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What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out (gardinerbryant.com)
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[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Most of the actual news about this project has already been covered elsewhere, so this is really just me indulging my love of strange physical gaming media and the wonderfully impractical things people come up with.

I've always been fascinated by oddities from gaming history, and the idea of someone getting Doom and Super Mario Bros. working with VHS tapes was far too interesting for me to ignore.

So here's a little/casual dive into GCVHS, the bizarre Action Max console from 1987, and why I think there's something super curious about people finding new uses for old technology. Sometimes I just like writing about things because they're weird :)

[–] Redfox8@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

I haven't watched the YT yet, but interesting to read how they came up with an alternate way to 'play' the game. I expected a zx spectrum type setup where the data was loaded onto the hardware and played from there. That's some dedication/passion to effectively create a whole new system!

P.s. Keep up with the weird, if we were all 'normal' life would be painfully dull!

[–] generator@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

VHS games is nothing new, like said on the post there where some VHS consoles in the past.

Here's a video from Nostalgia Nerd showing some of the games and console. https://youtu.be/WI133HNGNfk

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 1 points 3 days ago

Throaty's implementation was unique though. His videos are often rather long. But generally entertaining and informative enough to watch.