First console to use removable save media? VIS?

[krslam]

So I saw this completed item on ebay:

https://m.ebay.com/itm/LOT-OF-5-Tandy-Memorex-Radio-Shack-VIS-Video-Information-System-/372253087950?nav=SEARCH#vi__app-cvip-panel

 

Five SAVE-IT cards for the Memorex VIS, which, I assume, are for saving game progress. The VIS predates the ps1 and contemporaries by a few years, so does this make it the 1st system (not counting computers) to use removable save memory cards?

[ubersaurus]

I think the Neo Geo predates it (as some games let you save progress on the memory card).

[Tanooki]

Neo Geo MVS/AES is from 1990, that Tandy from a quick look up was 1993-4 range pretty much. The MVS memory card while very tiny did allow for both progress by the stage, tracked scores in sports(or innings), and high score save as each game would allow such things or not.

[Flojomojo]

LOL the Wikipedia entry for VIS said some people took it to stand for "virtually impossible to sell." The thing was a modified Windows OS so it's tricky to have qualifiers like "not limited to computers," which have had disk and tape storage for years.

 

Remember those arcade games that had memory card slots do you could take your progress with you? I wonder if gaming culture could have been different had those come along ten years prior.

[godslabrat]

I wanted a VIS so badly as a kid... man, I dodged a bullet when my parents wouldn't get me one.

[Flojomojo]

I wanted a VIS so badly as a kid... man, I dodged a bullet when my parents wouldn't get me one.

Where were you exposed to this? Some creep's van?

[godslabrat]

I went to Radio Shack A LOT.

[keepdreamin]

I went to Radio Shack A LOT.

 

No nearby Toys R' Us, huh?

Edited May 19, 2018 by keepdreamin

[godslabrat]

My local TRU was kind of a pain to get to. I would only be allowed to go there maybe twice a year. Radio Shack, on the other hand, had a location in every shopping complex we went to, so I could always pop in.

[Flojomojo]

I pity the foo'.

[godslabrat]

I pity the foo'.

If the foo' is me... don't. The flip side of getting rare trips to TRU was that you never went just to look. If I was allowed to go, I was allowed to buy, and usually something REALLY good.

[TemplarXB]

So I saw this completed item on ebay:

https://m.ebay.com/itm/LOT-OF-5-Tandy-Memorex-Radio-Shack-VIS-Video-Information-System-/372253087950?nav=SEARCH#vi__app-cvip-panel

 

Five SAVE-IT cards for the Memorex VIS, which, I assume, are for saving game progress. The VIS predates the ps1 and contemporaries by a few years, so does this make it the 1st system (not counting computers) to use removable save memory cards?

Sega CD Backup Cart was my first removable for a console.

[CatPix]

oh, that make me think, the Ten No Koe (ROMRAM) card might be the first save card.

I can't find precise infos, but it's not a stretch to think that NEC released them at the same time than their CD-Rom attachement, in 1989 then (late 1988).