#terebikko

[pileofpawns]

@the-marios Okay, I know your kiddo specifically loves the red baby Yoshi that appears in Paper Mario, and the thing I have is of a different fella, but… I still thought he might enjoy this jahdjshsj.

These clips are from a licensed Super Mario World cartoon made for the Terebikko, a Japanese VCR accessory that took the form of a toy phone. You’d hook the toy up to your VCR, and at certain points in compatible videotapes, the characters in the video would “call” you (a special sound signal would make the video’s audio go through the phone rather than your TV speakers), often asking mildly educational quiz questions that you would answer with the phone’s buttons in order to receive feedback based on your answer.

In the Super Mario World video, the bros and Yoshi eventually find a baby red yoshi who insists to go along with them. When they decline, insisting it’s too dangerous, baby red yoshi retaliates, eating several paratroopas, which somehow causes them to spontaneously *grow* up. They stick around for the rest of the adventure, with Mario riding green yoshi and luigi riding red yoshi!

It’s really cute, and I’ve linked the full thing below in case you wanna watch it together - However, it’s only available in Japanese (with fanmade English subtitles). If you decide to (maybe you’d wanna have subtitles for yourself or to read aloud), be aware that the video has some harsh noises at the start and end of each “call” segment, as well as a couple instances of flashing lights. Also, I’d recommend picking the “English (Canada)” subtitles - The standard English subtitles use a more direct translation with unlocalized names and some swearing, and the UK subtitles are there as a joke, and while they’re very funny, they’re definitely not appropriate for kids lol.

Have a great day :D

[easternmind]

As per the standards of international commerce, the majority of consoles created in or imported to Japan, including those targeting uniquely domestic audiences, employ names or acronyms based on the English language. For the sixty odd years that Japan has been producing electromechanic and electronic game systems there is but a literal handful of systems named in the Japanese language that, I'd wager, even the most seasoned players know little or nothing about. Your curiosity may be rewarded if you continue reading.

1982 - Contrary to what you may have heard or read, Tomy was the first Japanese toy company to develop a computer. Styled after the Texas Instruments TI-99/4 and manufactured by Matsushita, the Pyūta was purposely designed to sit on toy store shelf space as hinted at by its name, a childish diminutive of the word Konpyūtā.

1983 - John Ross's Mini-Arcade project was sold world over under the sweet-sounding name Vectrex. The Japanese distributor, Bandai, was not so enamoured with it. Believing that a Japanese name would do better at retail, it was commercialized as Kōsoku-Sen - The Lightspeed Ship!

1988 - Bandai's history as a console maker is quite unlike any other. Terebikko is a VHS-based gaming system that uses the TV audio output to play sound via its phone receiver and quiz players with multiple response questions. The console produces a sound output that informs the player if the answer was correct or not. Tapes include animated films starring Mario, Anpanman and the characters from Dragon Ball, some even fetching quite the high price at auctions these days.

1990 - Sharp is seldom given due recognition for creating some of Nintendo's finest and durable consoles. The Sūpā Famikon Naizou Terebi SF1 TV perfectly mirrors the concept of their 1983 C1 NES TV, in spite of the technological leap. Its Japanese name describes its built-in console function. Nintendo fanboys would pounce on me were I to snub it.

1995 - Further proof of Bandai's unorthodox approach to console design is found in their unsuccessful Denshi Manga Juku - lit. Electronic Manga Tutor. The first ever stylus-based console - once again, contrary to what many may yet hold to be true - some of the games in its miniscule library allowed the player to design and animate characters or scenes; while others presented a blank canvas for the user to draw the game's protagonist.

1996 - A retail development kit, but a console all the same, Sony's Netto Yarōze was an ambitious project resulting in dozens of homebrewed independent titles. The name matches its vision: a network of creators coming together to realize their individual game design aspirations. Of all the systems in its restricted category, it was by far the most successful.

Unreleased - It's a beautiful fact that the first arcade game and globally successful console had a Japanese word stamped on them - Atari. Mirai, meaning Future, is a prototype found in the mid-1990s, about which nothing can be said authoritatively apart it from being a cartridge-based system. Given the more or less overt resemblances to the Atari XEGS, it is possible that it was designed by Ira Velinsky, in which case it could date from the late 1980s. Though not a made-in-Japan product, its borrowing of a Japanese word makes its presence in this list mandatory.

[efraart-mix]

Small Redraw art of a frame from the Dragon Ball Z: Atsumare! Goku World game, from the Terebikko peripheral, but with Sonic, Classic Sonic and Silver

[notahippo]

Thanks for all the birthday wishes!

You know, sometimes I think about this really strange birthday of mine... it started normally, but soon, I thought my friends and family had forgotten because they were avoiding me to prepare for a surprise party. After this, I ran into the hobgoblin, who said I could go with him on a trip, but made me pass a few tests. After I passed, we flew away, but before we could leave the valley, he showed me that my family had thrown me a surprise party and were actually concerned about why I wasn't there, so I didn't go with him. After that the birthday resumed as normal. I think about this birthday a lot honestly. Also, the whole time, I had a phone that apparently called a random person to answer questions, which was neat I guess? I wonder who it called.

(note from @snowwtrapped34: For those confused, this is a reference to the plot of the Terebikko game because I wanted to show off the fact I knew about such an obscure topic)

[fl0werfieldz]

dumb gijinkas of mostly forgotten mascots

[saturdaymorningvengeance]

[picturesofanpanman]

One of Anpanman's adventures on the Bandai Terebikko! To learn about the human body, the heroes go inside a mannequin and meet royalty of the stomach and heart. They get separated from Uncle Jam, and fight with Baikinman. At the end of it all, our heroes sort of leave Baikinman in the fake body with seemingly no way out.

[funarisjournal]

Things to get my mind off things...

So! I just learned there was a Super Mario World "game" for the Terebikko! For those who don't know, that was a VHS-based "console" that consisted of a phone you would plug into your VCR's audio and simply pop in one of the tapes and play an interactive game in the form of a mini OAV-like show.

Of course, the replay value isn't all that great when VHS is your form of gaming cartridge, and if you didn't have the phone, you'd hear the conflicting "That's right!/That's wrong" comments all the time (I guess the phone made it so that if you pressed a button, it would play the response and mute the other one when it played on the tape)...it's just a toy for the kiddies after all. Most of the people I know probably only know of the Sailor Moon game that came out for this - Kotaete Moon Call...And the DBZ community seems to have an extensive set of information regarding all the Dragonball releases for that console.

...but then I found this gem! A Nintendo franchise on a Bandai device! Featuring the old anime voices from Nintendo's 80s Mario anime OVAs (ex. Mario is played by Tohru Furuya himself, aka Tuxedo Kamen from the 90s SM)