#microvision

[bestboxart]

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Fashion Dreamer

Star Trek: Phaser Strike

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Fashion Dreamer

The USK stamp is so huge and annoying on every game box it appears on, so I'm super impressed by how gracefully this title handles it. They gave Germany unique art to accommodate it as a design element!

Star Trek: Phaser Strike

damn, that exists?

[technoplanet]

milton bradley microvision (1979), the first handheld video game console with interchangeable rom cartridges

[natalieff]

'Into the Unknown II'

Coloured pencils on paper, 2023

[retroremastered]

[halestromthewhoobsessed]

Star Trek has the claim to fame of being the first franchise to have a handheld video game possibly ever, and if not, definitely the very first licensed handheld video game not directly on the console’s hardware.

The Microvision was released by Milton Bradley in 1979, the first handheld game console ever to have interchangeable cartridges, although unlike most video game cartridges, they didn’t just feature ROM chips with code for the individual game, but instead a processor- the console itself lacking one. Star Trek: Phaser Strike was one of the systems’ launch titles. The 16 by 16 pixel display means there’s nothing that looks very recognizably like anything in the franchise, and in some regions it launched without branding, but it’s an interesting oddity

[fuzzyghost]

[yodaprod]

Alien Raiders, Microvision (1981)

[vgprintads]

‘Topple Zip’

[FDS] [JAPAN] [FLYER] [1987]

Topple Zip is a vertically scrolling shooter that is marketed as a racing game. The basic premise is that you control an aircraft and fly in competition against several other, computer controlled crafts. In addition to shooting at your opponents, you may ram into them, and they into you. Doing so may dislodge a pill shaped power-up from them which you can then shoot and collect.

Power-ups exist in various types, including defensive and offensive such as giving you better weapons. There are eight different levels, each of which contain a number of warps which link to other levels. How the levels connect is random each time you play the game.

The goal of the game is to locate a key which is necessary to access the warp which leads to the eight and final level. Collect it from whichever level it is hidden inside of, and access the eighth level before any of your competitors. ~MobyGames

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