This machine may have changed the direction of console gaming at the time had it come out. However, the power chair add-on was way too ambitious, IMO and would never have worked as a home peripheral. They'd have been better off trying to pitch that at the arcade market. The system should've also used carts instead of the proposed floppy discs.
@inphanta Konix said the reason why they opted for floppies over cartridges was to keep the costs down. They were aiming for maximum of £15 for the software and also they wanted to encourage bedroom programmers and the cart route would've made it only viable for big name publishers.
At the time Minter was working on this, he said that his development machine ran at one third of the speed of what the final retail release console would.
Just imagine what the Konix could've done for the UK games market with such a spec. It really shows the wasted promise that 20 years on people are lamenting it's failure.
Yeah, lol a gaming journalist went to his home to interview him once and was astounded by the sheer amount of gear Minter had. Stacks of computers, consoles and even a few arcade machines.
A trip to his place must be sheer heaven for hardcore gamers :)
thx for the upload! wanted always to see some footage of this game!
kraut1x 8 months ago
This machine may have changed the direction of console gaming at the time had it come out. However, the power chair add-on was way too ambitious, IMO and would never have worked as a home peripheral. They'd have been better off trying to pitch that at the arcade market. The system should've also used carts instead of the proposed floppy discs.
inphanta 1 year ago
@inphanta Konix said the reason why they opted for floppies over cartridges was to keep the costs down. They were aiming for maximum of £15 for the software and also they wanted to encourage bedroom programmers and the cart route would've made it only viable for big name publishers.
JayArgonaut 1 year ago
ty for the upload :-)
hewey999 1 year ago
At the time Minter was working on this, he said that his development machine ran at one third of the speed of what the final retail release console would.
Just imagine what the Konix could've done for the UK games market with such a spec. It really shows the wasted promise that 20 years on people are lamenting it's failure.
JayArgonaut 2 years ago
is this in minters crazy bedroom?
LAGERL0UT 2 years ago
Yeah, lol a gaming journalist went to his home to interview him once and was astounded by the sheer amount of gear Minter had. Stacks of computers, consoles and even a few arcade machines.
A trip to his place must be sheer heaven for hardcore gamers :)
JayArgonaut 2 years ago
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alaggan 4 years ago
The music for AMC89, as Jeff said in another film, was procedurally generated (I believe he said it was "fractal music").
I don't know if it still is in this version.
ravuya 4 years ago
Thanks for posting these Konix vids up :) Can`t find my Retro Gamer CD, so nice one :D
Such a shame this machine never came to market, at least the SAM Coupe made it, but the Konix looked soo soo powerful...
yaKC 5 years ago
i had this game on C64 , looked very bland compared to that version .
mo0tube 5 years ago