Tomy Tutor 16 Bit Graphic Computer (Overview Part 1) (04/11/09)

[WARPUDDY666]

How much are they worth or what did you pay fore yours ? I found one listed as a make offer or trade deal on craigslist in my city and it looks like new with 3 games and tape drive

[InsaneDavid]

@WARPUDDY666 For a loose system with three lose games, set of joy controllers and a tape drive I'd say no more than $50.00. That's me though. For boxed stuff I'd say $75.00. The interest on Tutor stuff is either all or none and the pricing is the same.

[WARPUDDY666]

@InsaneDavid Thanks for getting back to me on this David, I plan to do a trade or offer 50 so now I don't feel like I'd be insulting the guy with to low a price, as I don't want to lose a good connection for retro systems, Gotta keep my gaming museum growing lol

[WARPUDDY666]

@InsaneDavid I just got home from the guys house and I was able to get it for 50 and a hand full of Sega genesis games also got a very hard to find arcade quality competition pro joystick for Colecovision

so I be a happy dude as everything works like new

the 3 games I got are Scramble,Cave Crawlers and Traffic Jam which defiantly looks fun

[InsaneDavid]

@WARPUDDY666 Traffic Jam is considered the premier game on the platform, although Jungler is my favorite.

[hossmd80]

Interesting system. I have a Myarc Geneve 9640 which utilizies the same TMS9995 processor. Around 1990 someone ported over several of the Tomy Tutor games to the Geneve. I have Islander, Car Race, Sea Terror, Space Champions, Traffic Frenzy, Jungle Terror, Cave Explorer, Train Twister, Submarine Revenge and Time Guardian. Some of the game names were slightly changed, e.g. Traffic Jam=Traffic Frenzy, Loco-Motion=Train Twister, Pooyan=Jungle Terror, etc. Gameplay and graphics are identical.

[ClassicTVMan81]

The Japanese-market version, known as the Pyuuta, was first produced and sold in 1982. The same year that our Tutor was launched, two more Japan-only variations of the Tutor (Pyuuta) were available: the Pyuuta Mark II and the Pyuuta, Jr. The former had a proper typewriter-style keyboard, while the latter was a cut-down unit intended for games and graphics only. Both of these units, in spite of their Japan-exclusive availability, have all their onscreen text in English.

[InsaneDavid]

Yeah, I've been after a Pyuuta Jr. off and on for awhile. However the last one I was offered was priced way too high.

[ClassicTVMan81]

1983 was the year the Tutor was released.

[RugbyMadLee]

LOL I still have mine - and I am pretty sure it works !

[InsaneDavid]

Cool, these computers are amazingly durable - probably because there's so little to them inside.