Follow Jason Cirillo to the Land of the Rising Sun as he ransacks Hard Off stores and finds an amazing specimen of video game history: The Bandai TV Jack 5000! Bandai has always had an odd place in video game history, from their TV Jack series through their release of WonderSwan consoles in the 90’s, finally merging with Namco some years later. See where it all started for the Japanese toy giant in this episode of the award-winning Bit Museum!
Before you had 3DSes and DSes and GameBoys of all flavors, there were Nintendo Game & Watch games. And boy are they rad. Jason explores the history of this expansive line of dedicated mini-consoles that spawned quite a few future Nintendo innovations. The friends Jason has lost for your edutainment!
This is the Bit Museum that Holy Grail seekers have waited for! The incredibly rare, ultra-weird AdventureVision by Entex is a console you will not soon forget. Be thrilled by its spinning mirror and red LED display! Only a 100 or so exist in working condition, and Bit Museum got its stinky nerdclaws on one. Let’s watch!
Oh hi! Do you keep dropping cartridges? Ever wish they had handles? Well, Magnavox heard the answers to your prayers. The only problem is that it was like 30 years ago…now you’re on your own again. Jason takes a good, hard look at the Odyssey 2 and some of its illustrious software.
It’s the 1980’s and Dad’s hogging the tube. How does a pre-pubescent player such as yourself get your game on?! You get yourself a TV-Less console, like a Vectrex or a Microvision!
When Nintendo Sounded Like Farts. This is the first Episode of Bit Museum where we discuss pre-Famicom Nintendo consoles. These will blow your mind!
We’re very proud that this episode won us the 2009 LATV Award in the Documentary Category!
