Had a Game Gear and really wanted one of these as a kid.
Still have that Game Gear and still really want one.
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2025
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I wanted it so bad. Then my friend had one and it was shit. And i still wanted it.
Unfortunately it would still be able to pick up the signal but the Tuner wouldn't be able to convert the newer digital format.
Xbox ONE, PS TWO, PS THREE as well
I remember the Italian TV commercial for that.
It's times like this I wish I had a bigger house. There's so much of this old tech I just want, or at least I want to see and hold them. Basically I want a hands-on retro gaming museum.
I used to have a room dedicated to retro games and tech, but since having kids, it's all been crammed into closets. Once they're old enough to not break stuff, I plan to get the "museum" out again in some form so that they can enjoy it.
There's a free to the public pinball museum near me, not quite the same thing but I could see the possibility of one for retro games, but they would probably have to charge a fee to prevent people ruining or stealing stuff unfortunately.
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Several of those old portables had tv tuners. None of them work anymore, at least not the USA.
There is a project out there that transmits video on UHF or VHF over short distances, basically a work around for old analog tuners. Basically hook up a video source and it will encode and transmit so you can watch stuff on gadgets with these old tuners.
Also, I don't recall if they all have the a/v in functionality like this one, but that provided another option for using the thing as a monitor for other things.
I understand why they think they needed to do it, but killing analog OTA television was seriously the stupidest decision I’d ever seen prior to 2009.
After that it kinda started to happen a lot. Which, uh, must be coincidence.
Back in the day I had the portible TurboGFX with TV tunner. Seemed so cool but rarely got that much use.
I still have the box for mine that advertises the TV tuner. I always wondered if there were other attachments too.
I yearned for one of these TV tuners for years and never got one cause they were too expensive.
I can only imagine the sheer joy of watching blurry cartoons on this bad boy for a solid 15 minutes before the batteries gave up the ghost. truly living the dream.
Pssh we all carried the wall wart with it, just like we do with Steam Deck today.