Very Rare Imagination Machine System Review - Gamester81

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I review one of the rarest retro game attachments to ever came out, and it was an attachment for the APF MP1000 system.
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@BrianWeith 9 лет назад

This was my first computer. I still own mine and it is in excellent condition. At 14:50 after loading Space Destroyers from tape, you need to type the RUN command and press the return key! Kinda funny how you expected it to just startup like modern computers. Great video!

@jokerjay6975 9 лет назад

Ha! I have to admit, that 50s style announcer for 'Space Destroyers' was pure awesomeness!

@duncanward6226 7 лет назад

Using the 2nd audio track for actual audio is a stroke of genius! Blown away by that smart idea.

@Gamester81 11 лет назад

I appreciate the feedback. Joe is a good friend of mine and knows more about games and the history of games than anyone I know. I appreciate you checking the video out and leaving a comment.

@lancesquire9647 10 лет назад

After tape loads, type RUN [RETURN]

@vghchannel 5 лет назад

I know! Awww... wanted to see you guys play it. Cool video.

@Gamester81 11 лет назад

LOL it's funny people are bringing this up. :) If you guys must know I was looking at the audio levels for the video. My mic had been acting up and had been cutting in and out, so I wanted to make sure the audio was still recording. I've since purchased a new mic and audio setup so it shouldn't be an issue anymore.

@someinterwebguy 11 лет назад

Another great review. Reviews of these type of obscure systems are what I love most. Keep up the great work!

@spicyjuniormint 11 лет назад

Great video, super informative and watching you guys play those games was hilarious! And as far as Joe goes, he's knowledgeable, polite, and he's willing take time out of his day to make these videos with Gamester. You really can't ask for more than that.

@LeifGrahamsson 11 лет назад

Loving these videos and learning - nowhere else online where it's so easy to find out about these machines. Why I subbed in the first place.

@JasonJ25 11 лет назад

What I think is awesome is you can tell that Joe just loves video games. When that sound started from the game he looked like a kid in a candy store. Great video Jon.

@InputArchive 11 лет назад

I really like these videos, very insightful and I love learning the history of gaming. If it wasn't for this video, me and a lot of people wouldn't even have known this existed, never mind watching you play it and talk about it's features.

@dramos1 10 лет назад

it's amazing how far video games have come since then. we would not have today's games if people didn't make yesterday's games first.

@HeadsetHistorian 11 лет назад

Another great video, thanks to both of you!!

@dredayloc 10 лет назад

Love your channel been following you and the game chasers for a long time now keep up the good work :)

@DirtyReaper 11 лет назад

great video love hearing about these cool rare game/computer consoles

@kunai1362 11 лет назад

I love how you respond to him in a peaceful way.

@Balian316 11 лет назад

Nice review as always.

@Gamester81 11 лет назад

Thanks David! We hooked it up to an HD TV through the RF adapter under the TV. We tried on one and it didn't work, but on this one did.

@MaximumRD 11 лет назад

That is f'n cool! Congrats on this rare find!

@garygoldschmidt3775 3 года назад

I owned this system in 1981 as a teen. It was amazing! I would program in BASIC and save to cassette tape, play the carts, etc. How I wish it hadn’t been thrown away years ago. My first computer...

@Gamester81 11 лет назад

ahh...why not? We managed to get it to work on the modern TV and it looked fine. Probably with a standard TV would be that the camera would create lines on the TV.

@katiegleason5018 8 лет назад

Thank you for this review. Your videos are the best and highest quality. By the way I threw this console out along with many others in the nineties. When I moved out of my parents house. There are a half dozen systems sitting in the bottom of a landfill someplace.

@StormcloudLive 11 лет назад

really awesome video John, great to get so much information about this old relic of gaming in such a short video. Really cool looking machine too, considering how early it is those graphics would have destroyed Atari if it could have gotten more market share. Great vid tho!

@vectrexer 10 лет назад

It's amazing that I actually saw one of these in person back when I was small thing in Tulsa.

@wtfisditvoorbullshit 11 лет назад

I really enjoyed watching this, awesome stuff.

@PabloAymerich 4 года назад

I had one of these because my Father was actually a Manufacture's Representative for APF . I started my software development carerr with this bad boy.

@kevgor138 10 лет назад

Wow very nice collection for it. I've seen one in atlantic Canada but my neighbor sold it when they got their Tandy computer

@mhmrules 11 лет назад

I love this channel.

@supercrackpuppy324 11 лет назад

hey gamester keep up the good work still loving your vids

@TheAlexagius 11 лет назад

Love this "forgotten tech" nice to see it still working

@codakel 10 лет назад

That was my VERY FIRST COMPUTER!!!! My mom bought it for me back in 1981. That really brings back some memories! Thanks for having this review....was wonderful to see it. Since then I became a 3D animator and worked on a couple movies. www.AnimatorKel.com

@johneygd 10 лет назад

These day's it's really hard to think what's so imagination about this machine but in 1979, this was sooo advance and capable for it's time that it become the bomb, because of it's revolutionairy features,i bet that diehard fans of this machine really want to programm for it for a life time.

@Jwdude123 6 лет назад

I like how he's got the imagination machine on the edge of that dresser drawer. Low class production

@Dryzoul 11 лет назад

i learned a lot of video game history thanks to you! Greetings from Argentina!

@KK4CNM 8 лет назад

OMG we had one of those TV games systems when i was a kid!

@nintenguy3687 11 лет назад

great vids as always!!!

@axslinger99 4 года назад

My first computer as well. Had two of em. I learned to troubleshoot with the first one. It would only run for a minute then shut down. I took it apart and found a transistor/regulator wasn't properly tightened to the heat sink and was over heating. I tightened it down and it it was good to go.

@CommodoreFan64 11 лет назад

Awesome stuff, would have loved to play around with one of these back in the day.

@axslinger99 Год назад

I had 2 of those. They also had a machine language monitor built in. You could program it in machine code, which is a level below assembly language.

@pillmeup 10 лет назад

this is really cool, make more vids like this and i will keepwatching them

@MrCockPirate 11 лет назад

Great episode Gamester. Thanks : )

@VectrexRoli 11 лет назад

Great video! What a nice system!

@ChristopherSobieniak 6 лет назад

The use of tape-loading computer games got more traction in the UK where floppy discs and drives were REALLY expensive and it was certainly way cheaper just to code a program on a tape and sell that.

@n8great321 11 лет назад

I recently picked up an MP 1000 in the box at a flea market in Wisconsin. I guess they made it to the midwest eventually!

@doctorlight 10 лет назад

they look like good friends

@Jwdude123 6 лет назад

Yep The old one likes to take it da butt

@Despondencymusic 10 лет назад

Another great video of a specimen of computer history. I love discovering items that were ambitious in vision. That "brick" is a prehistoric USB hub LOL! The system reminds me of a comparison to modern day computer chips as when Doc Brown in Back to the Future 3 built that circut chip board strapped to the hood of the DeLorean. :]

@isilas1282 10 лет назад

Hey Gamester81 can you review the MSX1 & the MSX2 Home Computers. The MSX 1 & 2 was an obscure Home Computer that was popular in Asia, Europe, and Brazil. Sadly both the MSX1 & MSX2 were never popular in North America due lack of software titles released in America.

@colonel_fox 10 лет назад

My favorite part of the video was the handwritten receipt. It just adds some history to the system, sort of telling the system's journey,

@GodofBoris 11 лет назад

haha awesome review love the amount of knowledge, i wish i knew this much about a counsel like this, really really cool i Love Joe and i love you Gamester Great review man.

@dave4shmups 11 лет назад

What an awesome retro console/computer! I love your channel; I've been watching since 2008, and I love learning about retro systems like this! How did you manage to hook this up to an HDTV?

@theawesomegamr 11 лет назад

i think he is awesome, and owns a great website. you really have to be into this stuff to watch, ill admit that.

@Orpheusftw 11 лет назад

This guest is pretty cool. Seems to really know his stuff.

@HossiBlumengaarten 11 лет назад

awesome video!!

@belfry43 8 лет назад

I have some play APF videos on my channel, using an emulator and roms.

@Gamester81 11 лет назад

Thanks!

@raafmaat 11 лет назад

dont mind him, sure Joe's sound might be a bit bland, but he explains his stuff very enthousiastic and ya can just hear he is very knowledgable... I like these videos!

@merrol007 11 лет назад

Very interesting, tks for another great video

@yorgle 6 лет назад

Huh... The idea of having the tape drive be a stereo tape, and playing audio from one channel to the user while loading the game from the other channel -- I'm honestly surprised that no one else ever did this... That just makes total sense...

@StrobeFlashLite 10 лет назад

Wow, those boxer sprites are COMICAL.

@SuperFam12345 11 лет назад

Thats just epic and as retro as you can get.

@Lomaxient 11 лет назад

Don't worry about looking at the camera too much unless you're displaying an item & talking to the audience. The conversation sells itself & we're all geeks here. I kinda got distracted because I felt you were.

@jollywankerproductions774 3 года назад

Wow! Thats very cool!!

@RetroGamerVX 9 лет назад

Bloody hell that would have been expensive and clumsy, no wonder we bought a vic 20 :o)

@chiroquacker2580 7 лет назад

And here I thought the Aquarius was obscure. It's too bad it's so rare because it is a cool looking machine.

@reluttr2 10 лет назад

It amazing how much we take things like computers being able to display full color arrays for granted. This thing was top of the line in its day and it could only show 8 colors max.

@GeoNeilUK 10 лет назад

does the analogue capture card get round the problem of different regions using different colour standards like SECAM or NTSC instead of PAL, the 525/625 line thing being less of a problem. I do have to say, the analogue to HDMI adaptors are something I didn't know about!

@dave4shmups 11 лет назад

Cool! Does that guy have an actual storefront in Arizona, or just the atari2600. com website?

@schoolgirlshortdress 8 лет назад

Awesome,...I need to find one....

@belfry43 8 лет назад

Press the En (Enter) button in lieu of the red FIRE trigger

@makedaevilmage 11 лет назад

Never heard of this system before, then again it's before my time haha xD But it's very interesting and informative to watch :D

@scottmitting1671 8 лет назад

I got curious as to why the black on green text looked so much like a CoCo (TRS-80 Color Computer). Noticed they use a processor similar enough to be source compatible (this is a 6800, coco is 6809). I wonder if they shared some ROMs.... imagination machine specs seem unsurprisingly sparse.

@neodonkey 7 лет назад

They share the same 6847 VDG with the CoCo I believe.

@KyleStratacusDrewry 10 лет назад

Didn't know Dan Aykroyd collected games!

@KamikazeFlorida 9 лет назад

I had a T.I 99/4a now that was a cool old game system

@KamikazeFlorida 8 лет назад

I wrote my first games on a TI 99 4a the course it was all in basic . of course the box that I got with a bunch of stuff also had the voice synthesizer. and some old magazines including one with Bill Cosby in a ad . maybe I should action that offer $0.02 and donate the money to some rape awareness foundation.

@dhoerst 8 лет назад

+john Francis koziol Jr (Drivin2Insanity) Alpiner, Parsec, Munch man, Car Wars, Tombstone City, TI Invaders, Chisholm Trail, Hunt the Wumpus....Somewhere my five-year-old self is smiling.

@KamikazeFlorida 8 лет назад

I like to Sheamus an Alpiner

@KamikazeFlorida 8 лет назад

I did some programming and basic on one of those

@kduhtdkzrt 11 лет назад

Now thats what I call an obscure system. Never even heard of it.

@theawesomegamr 11 лет назад

wow cool system!

@ArchaicStigma 10 лет назад

It's amazing how if sears had put this in their catalogue as well what a difference it might of made. Because I have seen the 1980s sears Catalogs and they still have Atari ads but they are side by side with Nintendo one's no other consoles were featured to my knowledge. Maybe people still got the outdated machine because it was cheaper?

@nathan3595 7 лет назад

My dad had one back in the day and bought it in San Diego

@sandsedge 11 месяцев назад

Did you just use the RF output into a TV on channel 3?

@matthewbrown4360 10 лет назад

I had purchased one of those TV Fun systems from a garage sale around 1993, but I swear it said Odyssey somewhere on it. Could never get it to power on or react to any input.

@invisibletenants 10 лет назад

Must have been one of the Magnavox Odyssey Pong machine (there were sevral models, incl. the original Pong with "cardridges" and TV overlays)

@TwinFamiProductionsOLD 11 лет назад

You mentioned that you got it from someone to do a review. Was he the origna

@jeffross761 Год назад

I would love to have one of these complete systems I would like to recreate the boxes the games and casettes came in and to recreate the media from copying the games from online downloads back to casette or burn a rom and make new carts

@RobertROrosco 11 лет назад

I don't know if this make sense to you but even though I know that I wouldn't benefit from having it, I find myself badly wanting to have a completed set like you do. Just to have something so rare and complete and functional!

@joshuabrown3654 7 лет назад

Are you doing this interview/review in your bedroom? I see a bureau and a nightstand here...

@GeoNeilUK 10 лет назад

They'll only work as long as TVs are produced with analogue tuners (Steve Benway already has trouble getting some of his retro stuff to work with analogue tuners on flat screen TVs) After that... composite mod! or component mod! or RGB mod! (until they stop making TVs with those inputs too)

@alexander2685 3 года назад

That is too honking big.And look at john looking soo good.😉

@InfiniteUniverse88 8 лет назад

The advantage of cartridges over cassette tapes is the additional RAM.

@EVEmasta 11 лет назад

I was going to school you but gamester81 already did it. Rookie

@theawesomegamr 11 лет назад

dude, i thought it was cool until i heard the voice the machine did. then i thought it was AWESOME! seriously, this is a truly unique machine. too bad its so hard to find!

@ken131 8 лет назад

Pat the NES Punk had one of these and sold it. He regrets having done so. :)

@Nafeels 11 лет назад

BTW, Awesome and classy console.

@inkstudios 11 лет назад

I think he was hinting at his guest to talk to the camera..when he kept looking at the cam.

@hezekiahramirez6965 10 лет назад

Is that why it's doing exactly that in the video?

@GeoNeilUK 10 лет назад

aaaaaand there you go again...

@logicone5667 7 лет назад

I had an ADAM computer in the 90s (my first computer) and that pos was 10 yrs old at that point.. Caleco Vision was the only great thing about it..

@The_Fat_Hipster 11 лет назад

Review the Nvidia Shield handheld devise!

@RetroGamerVX 9 лет назад

Great review, you cocked up the tape loading lol, would have been improved by having a look around the system rather than it just sitting in the distance on a table :o( I love the fighting game, it's like posh fighting lol