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Hyperscore: An ancient SNES... thing
mr-razzcocks
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Crossposted with H+A, because I figure if anybody knows about this, you guys will.
For one reason or another, a thought just popped into my head about this thing I got bought for the SNES when I was a kid. We're talking early to mid 90's here.
Basically, it was a cartridge that plugged into the console, and the game cartridge went in the top of that. The idea was that the Hyperscore unit would save your game score, then you could phone a hotline and the Hyperscore unit would use a built in speaker system to relay a weird binary/morse type signal through the phone, and your score would be registered on a high score list on Teletext, a shitty information network available through terrestrial TV channels in the UK.
Due to various faults, it never actually worked, and the product was recalled, I got a shitty boardgame in compensation off the company who made it.
Anyway, I just decided to look into this product a little further, just to satisfy my curiosity. However, a Google search proves to be totally fruitless, as the Hyperscore tag now refers to a piece of audio composition software, and adding "SNES" to my search brings up very minor references to the product, and only the Mega-Drive/Genesis version.
My point is, does anybody happen to have any information on this product? What caused the cock-up? Personal experience with it? Maybe you got the damned thing to work? Anything at all.
To clarify, I think it was only released in the UK
An interesting (for me at least) postscript to my experience with it as a child: UK kids TV presenter Andy Crane held the high score for Super Mario World. I beat it, but couldn't submit my score.
Alternative thread avenue: Discuss failed products
EDIT: I don't want to post this in G+T, because I don't like it there
For one reason or another, a thought just popped into my head about this thing I got bought for the SNES when I was a kid. We're talking early to mid 90's here.
Basically, it was a cartridge that plugged into the console, and the game cartridge went in the top of that. The idea was that the Hyperscore unit would save your game score, then you could phone a hotline and the Hyperscore unit would use a built in speaker system to relay a weird binary/morse type signal through the phone, and your score would be registered on a high score list on Teletext, a shitty information network available through terrestrial TV channels in the UK.
Due to various faults, it never actually worked, and the product was recalled, I got a shitty boardgame in compensation off the company who made it.
Anyway, I just decided to look into this product a little further, just to satisfy my curiosity. However, a Google search proves to be totally fruitless, as the Hyperscore tag now refers to a piece of audio composition software, and adding "SNES" to my search brings up very minor references to the product, and only the Mega-Drive/Genesis version.
My point is, does anybody happen to have any information on this product? What caused the cock-up? Personal experience with it? Maybe you got the damned thing to work? Anything at all.
To clarify, I think it was only released in the UK
An interesting (for me at least) postscript to my experience with it as a child: UK kids TV presenter Andy Crane held the high score for Super Mario World. I beat it, but couldn't submit my score.
Alternative thread avenue: Discuss failed products
EDIT: I don't want to post this in G+T, because I don't like it there
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TO YOUR GAMECUBE
TO GET SOME STICKERS OR SOMETHING?
Did you blow in it?
I think you have to blow in it?
Damnit, where's jimmy with my coffee, I'm gonna fire that boy.
BUTT GUNBOT??
hehehehe
I don't think this is what you wanted either, man.
are you not confident your intended topic is interesting enough?
because if you think it isn't, then what the hell are the rest of us supposed to think?
hehehe
hee hee
GARGALOO???
alternative response: go fuck yourself
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
would you rather scream the score yourself?
I didn't! The adverts for it were like really bad photostories about teenagers who were having relationship issues and solved them by playing Street Fighter II!
Seriously, this shit actually happened
The answer should be right before him, the words are all there, but their meanings skewed and twisted into ramblings of insanity. His eyes can't focus as beads of sweat blur his vision, his fingers can't rest as they tap uncontrollably. His mind, forever lost to the insanity he surronded himself with throughout the years. It was all coming back to him, the days of utter fear, the nights spent fetal, silent, still in a locked room with a shotgun to keep him secure. This was his life now, and this is how he felt comfortable, no one could comprehend, or appreciate, the lengths, the sacrifices he made to get here. No one would want too.
pix or it didn't happen
you're just a liar
a big ol liar with a liar's heart and a pigface
Than spend cash money on a little box that screams it for you?
yes I would.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
stick one lead into your 360 and the other into your cellphone
same thing
Don't forget to lick the leads after you plug the cord in to increase conductivity and get a clearer signal.
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