Check Out the Vistar!

unclebugspayton · 07/23/2010, 09:06 PM

This is pretty Cool! https://nfggames.com/games/vistar/
I would love to get my hands on this..

Sorry Guys!!! I would still love to get my hands on this very rare system.

OldRover · 07/23/2010, 09:58 PM

As far as I know, the Vistar is pretty well-known 'round these parts...

unclebugspayton · 07/23/2010, 10:15 PM

does anyone own one?

TheClash603 · 07/24/2010, 04:26 AM

Very cool machine, I wonder if it sold at all?

ZachSpears · 07/24/2010, 11:22 AM

i want that converter...

turbogrfxfan · 07/24/2010, 05:18 PM

wow pretty cool very nice looking

SignOfZeta · 07/25/2010, 02:38 AM

Is there a rule for this forum that says people should avoid making posts that have zero description in the Subject line? I know a lot of places specify that...

TheClash603 · 07/25/2010, 02:41 AM

Quote from: SignOfZeta on 07/25/2010, 02:38 AMIs there a rule for this forum that says people should avoid making posts that have zero description in the Subject line? I know a lot of places specify that...

I agree with this. I hate having to guess what's in a thread...

Joe Redifer · 07/25/2010, 03:00 AM

I campaign for that rule on every forum I participate in. But I don't make the rules.

turbogrfxfan · 07/25/2010, 12:41 PM

i agree w you guys but I dunno I think he just got all excited and he wanted to show what he found. I think he was new and didnt realize.

TheClash603 · 07/25/2010, 01:15 PM

Quote from: turbogrfxfan on 07/25/2010, 12:41 PMi agree w you guys but I dunno I think he just got all excited and he wanted to show what he found. I think he was new and didnt realize.

I've murdered people for less...

SignOfZeta · 07/25/2010, 02:19 PM

I wouldn't mind, and I feel like a jerk for mentioning it, but when I see a post called "What happens when you...?" or "What is this?" I just think that its either spam or someone who wants attention. What sucks is that I always click on the stuff because I don't want to miss anything.

Joe Redifer · 07/25/2010, 11:23 PM

Descriptive thread titles are always helpful. I cannot think of any reason to use a teaser title instead.

Tatsujin · 07/26/2010, 12:18 AM

Quote from: Joe Redifer on 07/25/2010, 11:23 PMDescriptive thread titles are always helpful. I cannot think of any reason to use a teaser title instead.

At least the name came up at the end of the link, else I had to click this as well to finally discover about what it is all about.

SignOfZeta · 07/26/2010, 04:12 AM

As for the Vistar, its rather decent looking. It makes the TG-16 look even more like a non-descript slab that it already does.

termis · 07/26/2010, 09:19 AM

Can't load the nfggames site at the moment, but some other random interesting tidbits, including the vistar ad in a Korean magazine (most likely from a monthly/weekly comic magazine) and from this ->blog<-, which includes shots of what the CIB system looks like.

- The ad states that 22 titles were available. I'm not sure if any of these titles were actually localized with Korean script ingame or simply quick jobs with a translated Korean manual but North American Turbochip games. As far as I recall that's what they did with Keith Courage, at least according to that nfggames site.
- Looks like Neutopia II was localized as "Utopia II" in Korea.
- Vistar owners also got those gimmicky shades in the pic which claimed to reduce the effects of any "harmful rays".

You could apparently buy the glasses separately for approx US$25 (that's my ballpark estimate of the exchange rate at the time)
- Unlike the TG16, the Vistar had both RF and A/V outputs, but the A/V output seems to be only in mono.

NecroPhile · 07/26/2010, 11:56 AM

It reminds me of those old RCA DSS boxes: boring, homely, and plain. Plus, the controllers were rather poorly done: notice that the cheap bums didn't bother to cast new cases and it still says TurboGrafx-16 in the center, yet they translated the text on the shiny part around the buttons (Buttons A & B -

).

Quote from: TheClash603 on 07/25/2010, 01:15 PMI've murdered people for less...

I prefer to call it justifiable homicide.....

Tatsujin · 07/26/2010, 12:41 PM

I like the cord length of that Vistar 16 game system. As if the ones from the PC Engine weren't already short enough.

And why did they use the ubermegaugly TG-16 cover arts instead of the ubermegacool PCE ones? They like to copy any other shit comming from Japan, why not these too?

turbogrfxfan · 07/26/2010, 02:37 PM

i want air zonk glasses!!

hoobs88 · 07/26/2010, 11:31 PM

Quote from: turbogrfxfan on 07/26/2010, 02:37 PMi want air zonk glasses!!

Me too!

Tatsujin · 07/27/2010, 12:40 AM

Quote from: hoobs88 on 07/26/2010, 11:31 PM
Quote from: turbogrfxfan on 07/26/2010, 02:37 PMi want air zonk glasses!!
Me too!

Me too!

termis · 07/27/2010, 09:37 AM

Quote from: Tatsujin on 07/26/2010, 12:41 PMI like the cord length of that Vistar 16 game system. As if the ones from the PC Engine weren't already short enough.

And why did they use the ubermegaugly TG-16 cover arts instead of the ubermegacool PCE ones? They like to copy any other shit comming from Japan, why not these too?

This is only speculation, but... at the time Vistar was released in Korea, many Japanese goods were not allowed to be officially imported into Korea -- especially in many categories that were deemed to have adverse "cultural" influence, such as comics and video games -- That's why tons of Japanse pirated goods in Korea existed in that particular era because JP goods couldn't legally come into Korea in the first place. Hence, the importer (Haitai) probably imported the NA versions of the games to get around this legal loophole. I suppose Haitai could've gone out of their way to put on Japanese cover art minus all the Japanese script and have the game be NA versions, but as you can see in the nfggames site, all they did was *directly* import the TG16 versions and just tack on stickers on the HuCards.

(For those of you wondering, "Hey, but those "Vistar"/TG16 HuCards are still made in Japan. Doesn't that mean it still would've been illegal under the same import rule?", it's not so much where the good was made, but the fact that JP PCE HuCards would've had Japanese writing and so forth, whereas the NA Turbochips wouldn't have. This might also explain the absence of Japanese menu in the versions of the Samsung Saturn).

SignOfZeta · 07/27/2010, 02:45 PM

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.

Roy The Sunderer · 07/27/2010, 07:54 PM

Not bad looking. Much more stylish than the American version.

shubibiman · 07/28/2010, 08:45 AM

Hey, thanks for the links and scans!

termis · 07/29/2010, 07:02 AM

np shubi.

As for its design, I'd have to agree with Necro. I prefer the TG16 design over this one for sure. This Vistar's kinda Plain-Jane, not to mention the absence of CD-port is super-lame.

turbogrfxfan · 07/29/2010, 08:36 PM

i think thet are both cool in their own ways

MotherGunner · 08/26/2010, 12:16 AM

I had a buddy go to Korea a couple of years ago and for the life of him he could not find one. Bummer...

blueraven · 08/26/2010, 03:26 AM

So.... Awesome...

SignOfZeta · 08/26/2010, 05:47 AM

Quote from: MotherGunner on 08/26/2010, 12:16 AMI had a buddy go to Korea a couple of years ago and for the life of him he could not find one. Bummer...

That doesn't surprise me. Finding anything from that era that isn't a pirate Famicom is basically impossible.

turbogrfxfan · 08/28/2010, 09:38 PM

i wonder how much it would go for on ebay?

henrycsc · 09/26/2010, 08:58 PM

Didn't see this on the thread, but I found this pic of the box:

MotherGunner · 09/26/2010, 10:02 PM

That is really cool. I really like the look of the system.