Oldschool Shooter Fashion

subcons · Post by **subcons** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:13 am

Just saw this in the new GameInformer:

Fossil's Atari: Asteroids watch.

Limited quantity. Fairly stylish and quite nice looking.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:11 am

What's a "fasion"? Is it kinda like "fusion"?

umi · Post by **umi** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:08 pm

I think it means facist fashion... is that a German watch?

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:44 pm

umi wrote:facist fashion... is that a German watch

It's probably best not to insult whole nationalities for the sake of a joke. Your implication was probably not intentional, but folks please be sensitive of international members here

mrMagenta · Post by **mrMagenta** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:07 pm

those watches are hot! but the asteroids one isn't the nicest, sadly..
I wonder if the asteroids move around?

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:30 pm

Zweihander wrote:What's a "fasion"? Is it kinda like "fusion"?

Typo of fashion.

subcons · Post by **subcons** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:33 pm

Yes, I left the H out. C'mon, you can figure it out.

And yeah, the objects in the watch animate as the time goes by I believe. Kind of hard to tell by the description + flash animation on the site.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:48 pm

If you remember back in the early 1980's, you could buy one of three different LCD-type wrist watches that had a built-in game that came in three different game diversions: Pac-Man, Frogger and (my favorite one) Q*Bert game watches. When they first came out, they were expensive at $39.99 USD back in 1982-1983. At least you could chill out with a cool minature LCD-type game of Pac-Man if you got bored + it told time as well.

Also, GCE (General Consumer Electronics) brought out it's own Game Watch type of LCD-type games which really didn't tell time but you could play several different games on a single wristwatch type interface. They were sold for a cheap $19.99 USD back in 1982-1983 across the USA. They now fetch some serious $$$ on eBay.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

subcons · Post by **subcons** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:25 am

PC Engine Fan X! wrote:Also, GCE (General Consumer Electronics) brought out it's own Game Watch type of LCD-type games which really didn't tell time but you could play several different games on a single wristwatch type interface. They were sold for a cheap $19.99 USD back in 1982-1983 across the USA. They now fetch some serious $$$ on eBay.

Huh. Interesting items. Found this page about the design process from the guy that worked on them.

Only saw Sports Time available through eBay. Arcade Time looked like the one to own.

superhitachi4 · Post by **superhitachi4** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:44 pm

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:00 pm

I have a Casio/Taito Space Invaders G-Shock, limited to 1000. Got it from a friend who worked for Taito. Pretty cool, but unfortunately you can't play Space Invaders on it.

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:27 pm

Sweet. I want one.

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Oldschool Shooter Fashion

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