#tv boy

inkling army in my eyes.

also subtle non-sexual nudity warning beneath

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𝐌𝐲 𝐩𝐟𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐦 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐛𝐭𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐢 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞

𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐲 𝐢 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰..𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 <𝟑𝟑

31.01.26

The Sega Master System of 1986, the western version of the Sega Mark III, and below, the somewhat cheaper 1990 Master System II. In my day, you were either a Sega or Nintendo household. We were resolutely Nintendo, but we played the Master System II at our neighbour's (that was permitted by the terms of rivalry).

The 1987 European model Atari 7800. Never used the Atari, they were waning by the time I was playing, but I love the design. They had backwards compatibility, which it took forever for the others to catch onto.

The Casio P1000. Short-lived, Japan only, but God, isn't it gorgeous? From 1983. I feel like you could climb inside and live TRON.

The Action Max by WoW from 1987. Beautiful looking bit of kit, but it played games on VHS tapes! You had to plug the Action Max into a VCR and the VCR into the TV. Some games were based on movies which must have led to some error purchases.

The Amstrad GX-4000, a British console released in 1990. Cheap but with great graphics, but the games were crap so it flopped.

VTech Socrates from 1988. Known in European markets as translations of Professor Know-It-All. This was an educational system with limited games but it's a lovely design.

The Systema TV Boy Mk. II (1992 I think). I had one of these, it was terrible. It had over 100 games programmed in, but they were shoddily ported knock-offs of Atari games.

The Sega Mega Drive, or the Genesis if you're American. The original version came out in Japan in 1988, we got it in 1990. I played a lot on these at friends' places after they upgraded from the Master System, until we got: