Play chess against an elderly Greek man was fine, but it didn't beat the original "Play Chess Against a Mechanical Turk" released in 1770 and approved by Napoleon
They say that if you beat the elderly greek man at chess twice in a row, the third game goes into "ouzo overdrive" where his moves get sloppier but if you look away from the screen for a few seconds your pieces are liable to disappear
If you beat him 5 times, you got to the Zorba level, where sirtaki plays in the background, ever so slightly faster and faster, speeding up the game until you had no time to move your pieces anymore.
There’s also “Elderly Greek Man outside the senior’s care center” mode where more pieces inexplicably appear, to the point there’s more than 32 pieces accounted for.
The only game actually available in 1954 was a tower defence where you stare at a radar screen for 35 years to see if any Soviet missiles are heading your way.
AKA a Soviet missile detector. The first videogame wasn't invented till 1958, and it was never available commercially. Fun fact though, it was created by the same team behind the Manhatten project, so it's possible if they never made the Atom bomb and indirectly the nuclear warhead, we never may have gotten Mario.
Everything's just so crafted and polished - there's never a single wasted second or throwaway line. Maximum wit and quality in the most concise package.
Was thinking the same. It has colour? Did you have to add a coloured transparency onto your black and white TV to make it work? (some early arcade cabinets did this)
@@Elesario I remember the TV ads for the actual first videogame console, the original Magnavox Odyssey--it did come with plastic overlays you static-clung on your TV screen, as well as outside accessories like play money and dice, and that stuff contained most of the "game" content to what was otherwise a circuit for displaying a few moving squares on the TV.
I remember "get Gielgud" was 1950s gamer slang to tell novices they should keep grinding so they could become 'spectacularly excellent' at these games! Fond memories… Happy festivities, Alasdair, and a great 2025 ahead! //Rick
@@AndersLercheFX There was also another bonus level where you had to keep the female protagonist away from all the stashed bottles of gin he had hidden all over the house, it was called "Drinking From The Furry Goblet" 😂😂😂
The "This isn't earthed, don't touch the casing" is so accurate. There's a radiogram (a record player and radio built into a wooden cabinet) from 1951 in my family. The original wiring has two wires - live and neutral. The original instruction manual from 1951 explains that if you really want to earth it yourself, you should wire it up to your house's water pipes.
@@DesandSam That's why the instructions are always to ground to cold water pipes. Those are actually a very good ground, while most houses have proper grounding rods these days they may still ground the pipes as a backup.
@@timopper5488Only a small Victorian urchin chimney sweep, though. It'll cost you an extra shilling if you want one older than 4 or taller than 3 foot 6.
"Mildred, get my hat" was apparently harder than dark souls. To this day my Dad doesn't wear hats because of all the times he had to rage-quit that game.
The interesting part is that the boffos didn't make it that way. At the last moment before it shipped, the console manufacturer decided to cut a button from the controllers to save on asbestos.
Tell that to a cat. Up to six, or two adults and nine kittens, could nest happily inside the one box. The actual Buttertendo was practically a fringe benefit.
Oh, I remember these! My dad brought one home from his business trip to the surface of Venus; picked it up duty-free along with a large brick of novelty scented gutta-percha and a cheap souvenir macuauhitl. All mother's other husbands thought it was _quite_ the lark.
@@UnclePhil73 I heard a rumour of a couple of new game in development just before the console stopped production, called Mildred: Where's My Dinner and Mildred: Time For Intimacy 😂😂😂
The Phonko Supreme could’ve been the best console of its generation, but unfortunately publishers kept churning out garbage which caused the Video Game Crash of 1955. Legend has it that thousands of unsold copies of the Rebel Without a Cause tie-in game are buried somewhere out in the Mojave.
I didn’t know this until I watched a Yahtzee Crowshaw video, but Untitled John Gielgud Game wasn’t released on time and went through development hell until it was renamed and released as Leisure Suit Larry. And there was a Tupperware Lesbians IV, but it was a really crude FPS that eventually got renamed DOOM.
i didn’t think yahtz would care enough to dedicate a full video to leisure suit larry. seems more like an early ashens video, or guru larry would at least put that factoid on a list video.
That 'No' button is actually just an upside-down On. Look at the button next to it: that one is clearly labelled 'punous' - an advanced setting of the time.
When I saw the thumbnail I was momentarily worried that the game console was an AI generated image. Having forensically examined it I am pleased to see that it is instead a bespoke creation. Marvellous.
That's impossible. 3 graphics. It is beyond the reach of science for such things to be borne by the man of Earth. What ever happened to giving a kid a stick with only half the force of a backhand to teach them to stop dithering with irresponsibility.
The lowercase text on the controller, while beautiful, is of Britain in the 1960s/70s. In the 1950s it would've been block capitals. (Source: many many aircraft cockpits)
@@koolaid33 they absolutely did. the first computer game was called SAGE and was installed in arcades all across North America. had a pretty simple premise where you had to vector interceptors to stop invading bombers
You know they predict one day there will be a Gamey Susan so powerful, it can even accurately tell the time! Of course it’ll have to be so large and ungainly that the King will have to raise taxes just to afford his own
Mildred, Get My Hat is LOTS of fun. Mildred gets really pissed off at one point, but represses her anger and passive aggressively burns the dinner. That’ll show him.
Actual 1950’s “video games “ involved a piece of cellophane and a dry erase marker. Kids put the cellophane on the screen while the programme displayed an image, a maze or something similar. The kids then used their markers to navigate the maze. Still, lovely skit ABK, happy Christmas. Save winkydink was an example.
This console really should come with a power consumption warning. I plugged it in and the whole neighborhood lost power. I'm starting to wonder if this is a Red plot. I better report it to my local representative.
I forgot Tupperware Lesbians and Mildred were on this console. The crossover (Tupperware Lesbians: Mildred's Icebox) was SPECTACULAR. I wonder if GoG has that one.
Alasdair my good man, we already know you can make games! I'm taking this video as a roadmap for all the upcoming ABKGU game releases. My money and I shall be waiting.
There are a few late-gane reveals that you'll only fully appreciate if you 100% TL2 and get the secret ending where [[SPOILERS]] Phyllis gets that new trenchcoat she'd been threatening Judy about
OK but real talk: the prop design here is *chef's kiss*. And I know it's supposed to be 50's, but the faux wood grain is really shouting 80's to me. That whole first generation of consoles were designed to blend in with your giant-ass console TV.
The weird thing about the English dial on that was, if you turned it all the way left it became Welsh, but if you turned it all the way right it became French.
The more I pause and analyze this, the more I think that console is an actual physical model and it's exquisite. If it's actually CGI, it's damn good. I'm unironically in love with the aesthetic!
They used to have one of these at PAX North every year in the classic console freeplay section. Always made a point of stopping by for a round of Dot Simulator, but sadly the last few years it hasn't been there - likely finally gave up the ghost
"Mildred: Get my Hat"
Finally a game where real things are at stake.
a game with a female protagonist? how absurd!
finally, a game without politics
@@Feasco
That might be all right for those Nancy Drew books, but even in those she really should have a male chaperone along on her investigations.
Girls can't get hats. They don't have enough thumbs
Hats, mostly.
Play chess against an elderly Greek man was fine, but it didn't beat the original "Play Chess Against a Mechanical Turk" released in 1770 and approved by Napoleon
I love the fact that this is real.
Nowadays, you mostly have the opposite problem--of playing online chess against humans who turn out to be cheating with machines.
And it was the first asymmetrical multiplayer game as only one player knew it was multiplayer
oh yeah, but they usually had the "Dwarf not included" sticker
Do not tell the elderly Greek man you prefer the Turk, unless you want to play the fighting mini game.
They say that if you beat the elderly greek man at chess twice in a row, the third game goes into "ouzo overdrive" where his moves get sloppier but if you look away from the screen for a few seconds your pieces are liable to disappear
There is also a rare 0.2% chance you will hear subtle crunching sounds when you look away.
If you beat him 5 times, you got to the Zorba level, where sirtaki plays in the background, ever so slightly faster and faster, speeding up the game until you had no time to move your pieces anymore.
@@alfje5492
The precursor to Tetris.
If you beat him 10 times in a row, a hot naked chick appears, and you play her instead. My Uncle works at Phonko and he told me!
There’s also “Elderly Greek Man outside the senior’s care center” mode where more pieces inexplicably appear, to the point there’s more than 32 pieces accounted for.
The only game actually available in 1954 was a tower defence where you stare at a radar screen for 35 years to see if any Soviet missiles are heading your way.
AKA a Soviet missile detector. The first videogame wasn't invented till 1958, and it was never available commercially. Fun fact though, it was created by the same team behind the Manhatten project, so it's possible if they never made the Atom bomb and indirectly the nuclear warhead, we never may have gotten Mario.
@@koolaid33interesting priorities - nobody points that real world violence can be a gateway to playing violent video games.
related kids game we played in school: Duck and Cover.
The amount of effort you put into these short videos is really impressive.
Everything's just so crafted and polished - there's never a single wasted second or throwaway line. Maximum wit and quality in the most concise package.
@@Amaritudinemeanwhile, video essays
Those graphics would be impressive for 1984 let alone 1954.
Was thinking the same. It has colour? Did you have to add a coloured transparency onto your black and white TV to make it work? (some early arcade cabinets did this)
@@Elesario I remember the TV ads for the actual first videogame console, the original Magnavox Odyssey--it did come with plastic overlays you static-clung on your TV screen, as well as outside accessories like play money and dice, and that stuff contained most of the "game" content to what was otherwise a circuit for displaying a few moving squares on the TV.
It's got a little homunculus inside the tube who sketches procedural watercolours in response to a Chinese Room teletape feed.
And there's over three of them.
looks like we have a smart guy in comment 8. seize him.
I remember "get Gielgud" was 1950s gamer slang to tell novices they should keep grinding so they could become 'spectacularly excellent' at these games! Fond memories… Happy festivities, Alasdair, and a great 2025 ahead! //Rick
Tupperware Lesbians III, what a classic, definitely a top 5 game in the franchise.
Featuring such exciting levels as: Collect the lid. What is that smell?. Tend to the rug.
A name so evocative you can almost taste it.
@@AndersLercheFXThe chapters about carpets and scissors were deleted after the first release for being too innuendo for 1954.
@@AndersLercheFX Did you ever unlock the bonus game "Licking the carpet?" 😂😂😂
@@AndersLercheFX There was also another bonus level where you had to keep the female protagonist away from all the stashed bottles of gin he had hidden all over the house, it was called "Drinking From The Furry Goblet" 😂😂😂
The "This isn't earthed, don't touch the casing" is so accurate. There's a radiogram (a record player and radio built into a wooden cabinet) from 1951 in my family. The original wiring has two wires - live and neutral. The original instruction manual from 1951 explains that if you really want to earth it yourself, you should wire it up to your house's water pipes.
Was it designed by Satan?
That is a valid grounding point tbh though lol
If you don't mind your entire central heating system going live.
@@DesandSam That's why the instructions are always to ground to cold water pipes. Those are actually a very good ground, while most houses have proper grounding rods these days they may still ground the pipes as a backup.
@@arturocaissut1071 Old electrics often just had no earth wire. Originally the only thing using it was light bulbs. So little use in wasting copper.
25 Schillings and 16th pence?!
It's either feed my 8 children, pay this month's rent and clear my tab at the local pub or get my phonk on.
For 25 Shillings and 16th pence, you could buy a house in Hounslow with its own servant, and still have money left over for a chimney sweep.
@@SirViette
I’ll take your word for it. You seem like a good sort.
@@timopper5488Only a small Victorian urchin chimney sweep, though. It'll cost you an extra shilling if you want one older than 4 or taller than 3 foot 6.
"Mildred, get my hat" was apparently harder than dark souls. To this day my Dad doesn't wear hats because of all the times he had to rage-quit that game.
The interesting part is that the boffos didn't make it that way. At the last moment before it shipped, the console manufacturer decided to cut a button from the controllers to save on asbestos.
The real reason why hat-wearing fell out of fashion
In my days all we had was a Buttertendo. "It's better than a box" slogan was the best part of it.
Tell that to a cat. Up to six, or two adults and nine kittens, could nest happily inside the one box. The actual Buttertendo was practically a fringe benefit.
Oh, I remember these! My dad brought one home from his business trip to the surface of Venus; picked it up duty-free along with a large brick of novelty scented gutta-percha and a cheap souvenir macuauhitl. All mother's other husbands thought it was _quite_ the lark.
Wut
*macuahuitl
@@hazukichanx408 i think it is written maquahuitl, but it is far too much effort to look it up on a slow tablet.
This is so Heinlein.
@@ABW941I have that trouble too - by the time I've carved the query into my tablet, in triplicate, it's hardly worth waiting for the answer.
This is how I learned that Brits say "Earthed" instead of "Grounded" when talking electronics.
I was always puzzled about why Americans punish their kids by grounding them. Surely that's just normal safety procedure?
Yup, same here, just by context. It blew my mind. But not as badly as it would’ve if my mind wasn’t earthed.
@@SheeplessNW6 True, but saying you're gonna earth your children sounds so menacing.
Thanks to you, I did too
@@karma_monkey
Six feet under the earth….
I heard “Mildred Get My Hat” is getting DLC where Mildred will also get your pipe and slippers. But it costs 25 cents! I’m not Rockefeller!
@@UnclePhil73 I heard a rumour of a couple of new game in development just before the console stopped production, called Mildred: Where's My Dinner and Mildred: Time For Intimacy 😂😂😂
You can save tuppence ha'penny on all the DLC if you go for the seasonal passe-partout.
Back in the day, we called them Expansion Packs. 😄
Ah, the snounds of snilence.
Why does this feel like a "take me to snurch"-reference?
The Phonko Supreme could’ve been the best console of its generation, but unfortunately publishers kept churning out garbage which caused the Video Game Crash of 1955. Legend has it that thousands of unsold copies of the Rebel Without a Cause tie-in game are buried somewhere out in the Mojave.
Along with segments of the franchise hero’s pate.
Chess AIs might have gotten smarter with time, but they never got as good at emulating an elderly Greek man again.
Respectfully disagree. The 1970s emulating a cheating Russian was a revolution!
In the chess screen shot you can see that Elderly was smart and played a fast game to get back to what he was doing before. Todays AI can't do that.
As a Tupperware Lesbian I endorse the video
i dont think so.
私は「Sensible Family Enjoyment Unit」とともに育った楽しい思い出があります。
As a lonely housewife. I'm very allured of Tupperware lesbians 3.
I'd love a go on the Gamey Susan.
Who wouldn’t?
"By day, Sensible Susan. But when 5 o'clock comes..."
I'll be honest that thing looks absolutely terrifying
I believe you'll find one round the back of the Hull Nisa.
It is £3 a go though.
@@kanehodder3459 That's what she said.
I didn’t know this until I watched a Yahtzee Crowshaw video, but Untitled John Gielgud Game wasn’t released on time and went through development hell until it was renamed and released as Leisure Suit Larry.
And there was a Tupperware Lesbians IV, but it was a really crude FPS that eventually got renamed DOOM.
Probably for the best, the switch to FPS when the first three were RTS would have been really jarring.
i didn’t think yahtz would care enough to dedicate a full video to leisure suit larry. seems more like an early ashens video, or guru larry would at least put that factoid on a list video.
You’re thinking of the Laurence Olivier game it inspired
@@masonasaro2118 right, I think it was one of his “let’s all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee” videos.
@@spugintrntl yeah the Tupperware party RTS mechanics were really annoying since you can’t climb up the skill pyramid.
Shut up and take all of my pre-decimalised currency!!
All 16/16ths of it?
@@ximonoAll 24/16ths of it!
Dot simulator. A true classic
The franchise went downhill soon after they invented anti-aliasing.
A plausible precursor to Pong.
Mate of mine has an original Japanese SFEU in his console collection along with the "Crumbly Pipes" tie-in game
This like a commercial you'd see on interdimensional cable
He's the Interdimensional ABK after all.
Language truly wraps around. Phonk being both an actual music genre the kids enjoy and a word that sounds correct in the 1950s is a marvel
Phonk, on a whole new level!
I was thinking we need an edit playing just the grimiest phonk tracks as background instead.
This quote from Works And Days sounds very different today than it did when Hesiod wrote it in 700BC: "The dank abode of chill Hades".
@@TheZetaKai I just had to go look that up to make sure it's real. That's amazing.
I'm shocked they filmed this commercial in color.
Jimmy just tryin to get his Phonk on
Jimmy talking in '50s era American slang sure is swell! I sure hope you sold a ton of those doohickeys. Oh, boy!
Golly, gee-wilikers!
That would be real ginchy. Like Gonesville man.
That 'No' button is actually just an upside-down On. Look at the button next to it: that one is clearly labelled 'punous' - an advanced setting of the time.
These videos are so relentlessly good.
It's so funny seeing other TH-camrs in the comments, reminding us that people that make great content also watch great content
When I saw the thumbnail I was momentarily worried that the game console was an AI generated image. Having forensically examined it I am pleased to see that it is instead a bespoke creation. Marvellous.
That's impossible. 3 graphics. It is beyond the reach of science for such things to be borne by the man of Earth. What ever happened to giving a kid a stick with only half the force of a backhand to teach them to stop dithering with irresponsibility.
As soon as we allowed them to start riding on trains going above 25 mph, society's downfall was inevitable!
There's a game for that now: MacroHard's Father Simulator '55!
The dithering these days is disgusting!
The lowercase text on the controller, while beautiful, is of Britain in the 1960s/70s. In the 1950s it would've been block capitals. (Source: many many aircraft cockpits)
Just another way in which the Phonko Supreme was ahead of its time!
Dude videogames didn't even exist in the 50s.
@@Sunderbrass Ohmigosh, I hadn't thought of that
@@koolaid33 they absolutely did. the first computer game was called SAGE and was installed in arcades all across North America. had a pretty simple premise where you had to vector interceptors to stop invading bombers
They did (Tennis For Two was made in 1958), but like computers in general they were super primitive and not widely available.
And to think from such humble beginnings would rise the empire of Phonko Pops!
A game for Christmas? What a marvellous idea! I've heard a lot of good things about Nelly Cootalot, it's time to take a look.
Ok now I want a Gamey Susan
You know they predict one day there will be a Gamey Susan so powerful, it can even accurately tell the time! Of course it’ll have to be so large and ungainly that the King will have to raise taxes just to afford his own
Little did they know back then but dot simulator would go on to be rebranded as a wildly successful franchise called "Grand Theft Auto"
Wow, the graphics have really come a long way since TupperWare Lesbians I. I never played TL:II, as I had consumption at the time
Ungrounded unshielded and uninsulated with hot as reference. People trying to service 50s hardware are in for a spicy surprise
Mildred, Get My Hat is LOTS of fun. Mildred gets really pissed off at one point, but represses her anger and passive aggressively burns the dinner.
That’ll show him.
Actual 1950’s “video games “ involved a piece of cellophane and a dry erase marker. Kids put the cellophane on the screen while the programme displayed an image, a maze or something similar. The kids then used their markers to navigate the maze. Still, lovely skit ABK, happy Christmas.
Save winkydink was an example.
Wow, the production value on this is crazy. So many little details and references, it's wild. Even in 4:3 too. Excellent as always Alasdair.
1980's videogames in 1954? Now that's a bargain!
I still have my Father’s Phonko Supreme somewhere in my garage. I’ll have to look for it and see if it still works.
But be careful with the casing. You might get grounded
@@Culpride I wouldn’t dream of trying to touch the casing, everyone and their mother knows that it’s not earthed.
I wish all games consoles had a "NO" switch.
0:09
Would you rather have a button that shares things with people you don't know, or a button that tells them to sod off?
Nice cameo by Gerald McBoing-Boing's big brother
This video has very good snound and graphic.
How can you tell? We still don't have decent conversion from 2-bit to 64.
Omg, I can't believe the effort that went into every detail. An "English" knob, my god.
There's a button that just says "No"
I want to see the retrofuturistic universe where Victorians had the Gamey Susan as well as television advertisements now
That is hilarious! And Happy Holidays to you, ABK!
Ah, this took me back! In order to turn the snound on or off, you had to dial 100 and speak to an operator.
This console really should come with a power consumption warning. I plugged it in and the whole neighborhood lost power.
I'm starting to wonder if this is a Red plot. I better report it to my local representative.
“Mildred, Get My Hat” was an amazing game that starred a female. I especially loved the sequel, “Mildred, Make Me A Sandwich!”
Sadly the third game, "Mildred gets out of the kitchen" was a controversial flop.
@@The_Real_Mr_Al I thought that one was alright. It was “Mildred, I want a Divorce” when the series truly died for me.
@@TornadoSponge thoughts on the remake "Mildred, Get My Hat: refitted"
@ overall good, but I think the developers went out of their way to make Mildred less pleasing on the eyes than how she appeared in previous games.
Nah, it was woke nonsense.
Imagine a girl being able to do something as complex as "getting a hat."
Also, not enough space Marines.
I forgot Tupperware Lesbians and Mildred were on this console. The crossover (Tupperware Lesbians: Mildred's Icebox) was SPECTACULAR. I wonder if GoG has that one.
I wish the man who lives in the crisps would return
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...
He never left you.
…
(Dissonant music)
The way Alasdair hits exactly my sense of humor is uncanny.
Little known fact, I hold the Any% Speed Run WR in Tupperware Lesbians 3
Oh man, they really were all like that in 1954! I'll never forget the snounds!
I feel like I've stepped into a alternate universe
Alasdair my good man, we already know you can make games! I'm taking this video as a roadmap for all the upcoming ABKGU game releases. My money and I shall be waiting.
Snound - It was like listening to an AM radio in a noisy factory, and Surround Snound was exhausting!
I love those games that were coming out in the early 1950s, before videogames actually existed!
I'm not sure what I enjoy more: the video or the comment section.
Yes.
This guy just goes from strength to strength, lemme tellya. Never a dull moment.
This is EPIC! I played the first commercial consoles in the 70's and I LOVE the addition of a rotary dial! 😂
LOL!!! Thank you, Alasdair. I'm rushing out to buy one of the wonderful Phonk consoles!😄
Those graphics are actually way ahead of their time! :D
The 1954 version of the Konami Code was "Horizontal, Vertical, Horizontal, Vertical, Horizontal, Vertical, Horizontal, Vertical, English, English".
The chuckle brothers were a Konami code tribute act
@@AzuresamaThis is the crossover I never knew I needed
Mildred: Get my Hat was a classic. I started with the third game however, Mildred: It's Getting Late
Will I still enjoy Tupperware lesbians 3 if I haven’t played the first two?
There are a few late-gane reveals that you'll only fully appreciate if you 100% TL2 and get the secret ending where [[SPOILERS]] Phyllis gets that new trenchcoat she'd been threatening Judy about
Once she obtains the wide watchband, she ascends to the next level.
@@thekiss2083 I could never find the power-ups in the games, a pair of comfortable shoes, a crew cut and a pair of dungarees 😂😂😂
@@TheDriller-Killer And the game-breaking secret powerup, the Ring of Keys....
I grew up on the Phonko. Super Intrepid Roadkill Phrog was my favourite game, good times.
"And many more" has Butterfield vibes
Let's be honest, Tupperware Lesbians I and II may have had their charm, but it was Tupperware Lesbians III that really nailed the formula
Midred Get my Hat has 3D graphics?!
Graphic
Prerendered. It swaps between frames.
What, no Tax Accounting Simulator? Garbage system.
That was really good. I had to watch a couple of times, and pause the video to appreciate all the lovely details.
I touched the casing. Ouch.
I appreciate the proper 1950s aspect ratio
This snounds fantastic!
We had one of those until my brother touched the casing. The light was too blinding to see exactly what happened; all we heard was a loud Phonko Pop.
OK but real talk: the prop design here is *chef's kiss*. And I know it's supposed to be 50's, but the faux wood grain is really shouting 80's to me. That whole first generation of consoles were designed to blend in with your giant-ass console TV.
This took me back, VR headsets just aren't the same as wood veneer and rotary dials.
The weird thing about the English dial on that was, if you turned it all the way left it became Welsh, but if you turned it all the way right it became French.
That annoyed child's face at the end 😆
Its believed by the 1980s, a system of this kind may have up to 64 bits of integrated "random" accessed memory!
Bit count and RAM had nothing to do with each other. The first 64-bit console also released mid-1990s.
Shortly before "640 kb should be enough for everyone"
@@koolaid33 Do you not know what a bit is? 64 bits of memory would be 8 bytes of ram.
I DEMAND MORE SNOUND ALASDAIR!
play that phonky music
White boy: "Who, me?"
1954: "Do we acknowledge any other demographic?"
@@momon969besides a single woman that never seems to marry a man, I can't think of any others!
LOL that frown from Jimmy at the end is so well done
I nearly didn't have him frown. Then I went back and added it at the last second.
I wanted a Phonko Supreme this Christmas, but my cheap-ass dad told me that Air Defense Simulation was already enough…
And this is how I learned the English term for "grounded" is "earthed". It really is edutaining!
The more I pause and analyze this, the more I think that console is an actual physical model and it's exquisite. If it's actually CGI, it's damn good. I'm unironically in love with the aesthetic!
'now we're having phonk!'
Going on the waitlist for Mildred, Get My Hat
They used to have one of these at PAX North every year in the classic console freeplay section. Always made a point of stopping by for a round of Dot Simulator, but sadly the last few years it hasn't been there - likely finally gave up the ghost
Love the 4:3 aspect ratio
Say what you like but that's a good looking console. We need more rotary dials on consoles.
Oh, I hope I get a Phonko Supreme for Michaelmas!