A well-known toy maker enters the video age in a big way.
The View-Master Interactive Vision
While not a video game system in the sense of Nintendo or Atari, it is within the scope of my personal collection. It is a very strange looking machine. The joystick is no less wierd. I have found very little on the Internet concerning this item, but a few facts have come to light.
One fact is that it won the 'Toy of the Year' award in 1989, and one of the team members was Jo Kapell, a former Atari designer.
From what I have been told on the RGVC newsgroup, this system works like this... It is connected between a VCR and a television, and special video tapes are played in the VCR. These video tapes download a program into the VMIV, and allow the user to control the action at certain points during the tape (I don't have any of the tapes, so I can't explain any further.) From what I understand, the tapes available for this unit are mainly for small children, with Sesame Street being a common thematic example.
Just in case someone needs this info, here's whats on the power supply:
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While not a video game system in the sense of Nintendo or Atari, it is within the scope of my personal collection. It is a very strange looking machine. The joystick is no less wierd. I have found very little on the Internet concerning this item, but a few facts have come to light.
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