mikayla_skye

Got the following message from djfurreh on Dec 14, 2017: Hello, I am djfurreh from AtariAge, I wanted to give you some info about the game. It is still in development and it is going ... very slow. What I will say is it has a few working titles right now as the name "Hadeaus War" is confusing people as Hadeaus is the name of a city in the world created and it made no sense to name a war of the entire world after one city. Anyway, I'll stop rambling and get to the point. Here are my plans. The physical copy of the game is ... on hold. I finished the 'prototype', but I wanted it to be ... over the top so I went and spent $750 making an all out odyssey system display with the game board hand carved and painted onto a table with a built in CRT and the works ... with aluminium pieces made of recycled soda cans... That said, I'm working on scaling down a more ... practical version I can make a lot of and also I've been in contacts with the creator of Odysim and making my game have an exclusive digital release through that. I hope this helps you keep your information up to date. Signed The Fuzgama Team

Definitely, the TV Jack 5000 resembles other systems based on the GI chips, AY-3-86xx and AY-3-87xx, like the PC-50x family. This would, essentially, make these systems "software" compatible, though can hardly be classified as software, but you know what I mean. If you mean a PC-50x family system, you should maybe check out this thread... http://atariage.com/forums/topic/221608-tcr-video-sport-900pc-found-in-the-wild-please-help-me-out/ Sure, and with the right adapters I can play both Colecovision and MSX cartridges on my SpectraVideo computer. (I don't really have a SpectraVideo computer; was just saying) http://msx.ebsoft.fr/msx-genesis.php But software compatibility is not the same as cartridge interchangeability, as can be seen in the Arcadia 2001 faq by Sly DC and Ward Shrake. http://www.digitpress.com/faq/arc2001.htm I suppose what I am building up to here is adopting the classification system talked about in the aforementioned faq. Thus, the TV Jack 5000 would be a new "cartridge family" within the AY-3-86xx/87xx "console group", alongside the already established PC-50x family of interchangeable cartridges. Other first generation families that could belong to this console group is the VideoMaster Color Cartridge system and the Takatoku Video Cassette Rock (first cartridge system made in Japan), which both use the GIMINI 8600 chips. http://www.pong-story.com/GIMINI1978.pdf First generation systems outside this console group would be the Coleco Telstar Arcade, which used Mostek 7600 chips and the Interton Video 2000, the Philips Tele-Spiel, the TeleTenis Multi-Juegos, and of course the Odyssey which all used discrete circuit cards/cartridges (<--- which begs to question: do these constitute another console group of their own? Are any of these 4 discrete circuit systems "software-compatible". Interesting) So... -First generation consoles (with removable media) --Magnavox Odyssey --Interton Video 2000 --Philips Tele-Spiel --TeleTenis Multi-Juegos --GIMINI 8600 console group (AY-3-86xx/87xx) ---PC-50x family ---TV Jack 5000 family ---VideoMaster CC family ---Takatoku VC Rock family --Telstar Arcade ... is how I'm classifying these systems, in my head

So, seems there is lots of questions out there about this rare gem. Been doing a bit of research online, and the following is what I figured out, with several helpful links to pictures. Hope this helps anyone who is looking for more information on the TV Jack 5000. Channel F clone? Lots of people have suggested that the TV Jack carts are similar to Channel F carts, and maybe interchangeable (maybe even a clone of the Channel F). Bandai did distribute a lot of North American systems in Japan. Though the TV Jack has very similar carts to Channel F (shape, size, colour, even the grip ridges at one end), if you look at the end-label, the Channel F cart has rounded edges, while the TV Jack cart has square edges (compared YouTube videos). The dust covers are also different. The games, and the graphic quality of the games are obviously different too. So, could you classify this as a PC-50x? It appears it likely uses GI chips, but I don't think the carts would be interchangeable (again, YouTube comparison). The entry in my list/database: Bandai TV Jack 5000 (1978) http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5y78z1IpO1qzjpvuo1_1280.jpg Models/Licensed Variants/Clones Bandai Video Mate TV Jack 5000 (Beige) (Japan) https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/OXkAAOSw-89ZPSnJ/s-l225.jpg Bandai Video Mate TV Jack 5000 (Blue) (Japan) https://vgcollect.com/images/front-box-art/97243.jpg Games [of course, I can't read Japanese, so there is a bit of guess work here] Sports title (PC-501?) (AY-3-8610?) http://www.datasheetspdf.com/PDF/AY-3-8610/586568/1 Car Racing title (PC-504?) (AY-3-8603?) http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/100/3773/1600/tvjack5000games.jpg http://www.datasheetspdf.com/PDF/AY-3-8603/586562/1 Motocross? (PC-502?) (AY-3-8760?) [couldn't find any close-ups of cart 3, so process of elimination from screenshots in ad, first link] Block 10 (PC-506?) (AY-3-8606?) http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/bR4AAOxyIYhSWVxk/$(KGrHqF,!lMFJTZzDBMLBSWV)jYH-g~~60_1.JPG http://www.datasheetspdf.com/PDF/AY-3-8606/586564/1 Unless it can be shown that the TV Jack is interchangeable with PC-50x, I would suggest the Bandai TV Jack 5000 is its own unique system of the Pong era ("generation 1"), the precursor to the Bandai Supervision 8000. In my own list/database, I classify dedicated Pong consoles separate from "cartridge-based" consoles (even though they basically use the same chips or discrete circuitry (Odyssey), and the carts aren't actually "programmable"). So I'll be adding the TV Jack 5000 to my list of Gen 1 removable media consoles.