Like many consoles, the Watara Supervision has lived on through emulation (see MESS). Hash Block/Jacky Lucky/Challenger Tank/Brain Power (1992).Hash Block/Eagle Plan (1992 developed by Bon Treasure).Communication port: Two Player Link using DE-9 connector.Power: 4 × AA batteries or 6V AC/DC adapter.Built-in speaker and headphone jack with stereo earphones included.
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There was no hardware video acceleration, graphics had to be drawn by software to a framebuffer. CPU: 8-bit 65C02 processor, running at 4 MHz.Quickshot's UK version of the Supervision was heavily featured for a time on ITV's gaming show Bad Influence! Presenter Violet Berlin could be seen playing a Supervision in many of the show's publicity photos. It was also offered as a prize on the premiere of the similarly short-lived The New Price is Right in 1994. In the mid 1990s, the Supervision was once offered as a final prize on the television game show Legends of the Hidden Temple (as well as Masters of the Maze). This version was also the initial release in North America, although without the QuickShot branding. The QuickShot version differed from the original Watara format by having the console body split into two parts enabling the screen to be tilted in relation to the control section. In Taiwan and Hong Kong, it was released as the 泰可BOY (Tiger Boy). To keep their costs down, Watara farmed out the international marketing and distribution to third parties leading to various versions including the QuickShot Supervision, Travell Mate, Hartung SV-100, and Electrolab in Argentina, under two different models: the Supervision (in a form factor resembling Nintendo's Game Boy) and the Hipervision. Up against Nintendo's list of popular franchises ( Zelda, Mario, Metroid) and those of its third parties ( Castlevania, Mega Man) - all of which eventually surfaced on the Game Boy - the Supervision's games were of little interest to most. Only a tiny handful of games were developed by third parties, including Sachen and the British developer B.I.T.S. Yet another problem was that most of the games that were available were developed in Taiwan or Hong Kong, meaning that fans of big-name Western and Japanese developers were underwhelmed by the apparent lack of support from these companies.
Reasons commonly cited are the poor quality screen which was prone to blurring and made following the action difficult, a general lack of games and the simplistic nature of those that were released. Though the machine garnered some attention at launch (mainly due to the low price for the machine and its games, which many felt might enable it to make inroads into Nintendo's market share) it was ultimately unsuccessful in unseating the Game Boy from its position as the world's most popular handheld. The Watara Supervision with tilting screenġ60×160 pixel resolution, 4 shades of grey
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