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This is an interesting bit, it's come up before, that Tectoy wanted to bring over a monochrome, Game Boy-like handheld from Taiwan as a budget alternative to the Game Gear and license Sega games for it. The only one I think that matches that description is the Gamate?
Time Extension: You mentioned before about Sega saying, 'No' to you a lot. Are there any ideas that you can specifically remember that you pitched to Sega and they just outright refused to do? Arnhold: I can give you one: the black and white video game. Game Boy was huge, and Sega at the time had the Game Gear, which ate through, I don't know how many Batteries, but it was still a fantastic product. Playing Super Monaco GP II game to game with two Game Gears was always an amazing experience, and you could even use the Game Gear as a TV set. So we thought it was fantastic, but we knew it would never hit the millions that Game Boy was enjoying, especially in Brazil. So we found one company in Taiwan — I don't remember the name — that had this product they were interested in selling. Their product was okay, but I went to my head of engineering, Roberto, and said, 'The audio is lousy. Can you fix it?' And he said, 'Sure, no problem, but it will cost a little bit.' So we came more or less to the idea that if we could do half a million units, it would pay for the investment. That was the ballpark figure we had in mind. So I went to talk to Randy Rissman, who was the owner of Tiger Electronics, which had excellent distribution, especially in the U.S, and I said, 'Now imagine if this has Sega games,' and he said, 'This looks pretty feasible.' Everything seemed to me to be pretty positive, but then I flew out to Tokyo, and I had a very bad meeting with Sega. They told me, 'No way,' but this time they said it convincingly, so I knew I couldn't do it. They said, 'No, Sega will never have a monochromatic handheld.' We tried to explain to them the size of the market we were aiming for, and asked, 'Let us just do it in the US & Brazil.' But they told us again, 'No'. In other words, don't even think about it. Time Extension: How complicated were the games going to be? Were they going to be like actual Sega games, like the Master System or Game Gear? Or even more simplified? Arnhold: They were going to be real video games, not LCD games. If you put them side by side with a Game Boy, they would be, let's say, Game Boy-like, but for our games: Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Afterburner, Sonic and the whole library, right? I think it would have been a huge success. In my opinion, there was no chance of failing. Time Extension: Have any prototypes survived? Or do you have any images of what it may have looked like? Arnhold: No, we kept it really, really secret. In the beginning, we didn't want anybody to know for obvious reasons, but then, when Sega was so determined not to approve it or license their games to us, we more or less got rid of everything to do with it. We didn't want this to leak because, after many, many years with an excellent relationship with Sega, we knew exactly when we could advance with something like this and when we could not. So I think it was an excellent idea, but they said, 'We don't want it, it won't happen,' so we thought, forget it, let's try something else.
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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wow look how much clearer I could be
image advertising the advantages of HDMI 2.1's increased bandwidth over 2.0 showing a split-screen TV with a blurry lion under HDMI 2.0 and a sharp lion under HDMI 2.1
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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quite funny that there's now a knockoff of ugreen called uyellow
screenshot showing listings for ugreen and uyellow hdmi cables side by side
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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When you see this post an image from your gallery that describes your mental health
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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there can be only one
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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some mini-arcade famiclones seen in Flying Tiger today...
Typo also had a handheld which I'm pretty sure was the same one I saw last week but in different colours. But the sales person was hovering so I didn't take a photo
Mini arcade machines with 100 games. The screenshots are all Nice Code games plus Sea War 2000 (Inventor) on the screen Another mini arcade machine with 2 detachable wired controllers. Rescue Kuck (Inventor) shown on the screen on the front and I think a Nice Code game on the top
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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the feline nyagenda
Bank notification for "£1.00 at NYA*GENDA EUROPE Ltd"
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I finally swapped it out with the old PC. The glass side faces the wall so it just kinda lights up its corner
Stilllll not fully ready though because it doesn't work with the USB C-DisplayPort cable I have which I was relying on to connect one of my monitors to it 🙃
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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my old pc will probably be decommissioned soon so just for posterity here's its wallpaper
Vertical and horizontal monitors both with Tails wallpaper
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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well even though I have not touched this in a bit I did install the Secret Weapon and it does work! the shiny new 2025 PC can still talk to a simple game boy
Parallel port on the back of my new PC
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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I saw this place on Google maps yesterday 💀
I would've gone there but I was too tired to go to that end of town sadly
Sans Cafe
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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things purchased in Liverpool! this cool plant pot (which ironically is from London) and this mug
Alt Hackney plant pot, white flecked with various colours Mug that says "cheers queers" in rainbow letters
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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And that is it I am omw back out of Liverpool
This was my first time there & I liked it! Good vibes to the place. Lot of interesting stuff going on. I am exhausted
Crossing the Mersey in the other direction
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Final batch of random photos
Big brutalist cathedral Bashful looking robot in a window View downhill to some kind of tower idk the name of Chicken bazooka
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Lions
Lion ale sign Goofy looking lion from a colouring book 2 lion statues guarding some portable toilets One of the statues closer up
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Went inside the bombed out church. Apparently destroyed by firebombing rather than explosives so all the brickwork and stone parts are fully intact
Inside the church, the walls are intact but the roof, windows and interior are gone Corner of the church showing the window frames and a bit of the tower base Artwork in a side room of the church View from the other end showing the tower
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Leaving today so alas I will not be able to cash in the free jagerbomb voucher that someone gave me
Free jagerbomb with purchase of your first drink
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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oh yeah I saw this earlier. obligatory famiclone (probably)
Games hub retro gamer 100 games thing. Orange
November 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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More random pics
Chinatown arch Shutters painted with "Relax" "Short legged furry bodied muscly marsupials" Cathedral behind some flats
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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pizza!!
pizza!!
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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foxes at the dockses
painted standees of foxes delivering post in the windows of a shop called The Nest
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Still pissing down and windy too so obviously I went to the docks
Entrance to the Albert Dock with lights Some kind of colourful hammer shaped sculpture A Liver bird I think View across the dock with Ferris wheel
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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It's pissing down today but here are some random pictures
2 murals on buildings. Woman with actual beehive hair and sound of freedom Guardian lion statue guarding some rental scooters Teppanyaki lambanana Caged lambanana and factory farmed lambanana
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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I also came across this happening
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM