ThatJunkman Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Hey guys, Mosty I am talking old toys, mostly Kenner stuff but I came across concept art that many believe was a 1981 plan for Kenner to release a home system. I have been digging around with no lucky in any good information, just concept art dated 1981. I cant even tell 100% the name on the art. I am looking for anyone help, anyone with info or maybe contacts I can try. I have even talked to a former VP at Kenner and others but all was hired after 1981. I did a video on all the info I have... but love to find out more. My video https://youtu.be/7hogu3prFd4 Concept Art https://imgur.com/a/Bm8Cnsg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Copied & pasted, in case Imgur goes away someday. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatJunkman Posted March 26, 2019 Author Share Posted March 26, 2019 thanks, i tried to get it show up on the message but it wouldn't work lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatJunkman Posted March 26, 2019 Author Share Posted March 26, 2019 An update maybe, found some info about a system or arcade that Kenner looked at but turned down, the same year of the concept art http://vectrexmuseum.com/vectrexhistory.php 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari_Warlord Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Maybe something to compete with 2-xl? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatJunkman Posted March 26, 2019 Author Share Posted March 26, 2019 Maybe something to compete with 2-xl? Didn't Mattel do Intellavision? Seems Kenner would want to do one also if Mattel did it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBerel Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 (edited) I could be completely wrong, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the concept art were actually for some kind of toy video camera system or projector rather than a video game system. Home video was all the rage at that time and there were several cheap concepts floated. Kenner had a line of several "Give-a-Show" and "Easy Show" projector toys. The concept looks more in line with that. If there were any kind of game element to it, it was still probably related to their simple projection stuff. Edited March 27, 2019 by JBerel 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatJunkman Posted March 27, 2019 Author Share Posted March 27, 2019 I could be completely wrong, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the concept art were actually for some kind of toy video camera system or projector rather than a video game system. Home video was all the rage at that time and there were several cheap concepts floated. Kenner had a line of several "Give-a-Show" and "Easy Show" projector toys. The concept looks more in line with that. If there were any kind of game element to it, it was still probably related to their simple projection stuff. Yes I talked about this in my video, could be a some type of viewer but the "GAME 1" written on it makes it seem it was a least a game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Kind of reminds me of the Fisher Price Movie Viewer theater. I know Kenner had a similar hand held movie viewer, no clue how you would incorporate that into a game though unless they expanded on it and were going for a trivia type game like the 2-XL Talking Trivia Robot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatJunkman Posted April 10, 2019 Author Share Posted April 10, 2019 UPDATEI talked with the guy that did the concert art! All the info can be found at 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 UPDATE I talked with the guy that did the concert art! All the info can be found at https://youtu.be/8fQwPJoZ59M Isn't 1981 the year the courts decided third parties could develop games for consoles? Perhaps Kenner thought there wouldn't be a way to make a profit if anyone could make a game for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schuwalker Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 UPDATE I talked with the guy that did the concert art! All the info can be found at Nice detective work - Columbo would've be proud! At least there was some closure here, I've tried contacted people on some rare prototypes (mostly in the arcade world) and never get a response And just to think if Kenner did go through w/ the video game idea and then... the crash. Safe to say, that '85 Kenner Power of the Force line would never came to fruition. (I do see a nice POTF Amanaman pegged on the wall.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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