Universal Videogame List - www.uvlist.net

Just in time! :-)
Here is the list of platforms I was building too:

APF IMAGINATION MACHINE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APF_Imagination_Machine
ACETRONIC MPU 1000 (Interton VC 4000 clone)
ACTION MAX (VHS shooting - Worlds of Wonder Entertainment) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Max
Super Vision 8000 (Bandai) darkwatcher.psxfanatics.com/console/supervision.htm
Casio PV-1000 (Casio) darkwatcher.psxfanatics.com/console/pv1000.htm
Cassettevision (Epoch)
My Vision (Nichibutsu ) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Vision

If someone else has his own hardware list, please contribute!

note:
Those urls are now real links, isn't it cool? ;-)

Eight new platforms added!
Now we are counting 138!

Action Max
APF
Casio PV 1000
Epoch Cassette Vision
Microvision
My Vision
Pippin
Supervision 8000

138 platforms, that's great.
And real links, that's great too :)

I began to add games on "Cassette Vision", but the problem is that I didn't find any informations about the japanese release dates, only the European ones. So I marked a "?" on the year and added comments on games : "Released in 1984 in Europe" or "Released in 1985 in Europe". Is it good or should I indicate the year in the "year column" ? Or shoud I indicate no year nor comment ?

You can use the year you have.
I do the same even for more recent platforms, as soon as I know the first release date I update it.

OK, that's done.

But I still can't delete the comments I already made for these games...


I suggest another new platform(s) : Thomson MO5 / MO6 / TO7 / TO8 / TO9
www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/9723/thomson.html
www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=12
www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=238

I found this platform because I was looking for informations about "Dieux du Stade" (missing screenshot for the Amstrad CPC...), and it seems that this game don't exist on CPC but on Thomson TO8. I have found many sites referencing this game on TO8 but only one site referencing this game on CPC (with no informations : no release date, no publisher, etc...). Then I noticed that Thomson's machines don't appear on UVL.

I'm working on two new fileds: generation (i.e. PS3 is 7th) and units sold, so I've casually found some other platform:

Coleco Telstar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Telstar
APF TV Fun en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APF_TV_Fun (looks different from the other APF I've added. I've to investigate)
Epoch Game Pocket Computer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_Game_Pocket_Computer

Andrea for generations check this page if you havent already

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_and_video_games

I already know it, thanks :)

Super Micro / Super Micro PVS
Super Micro / Super Micro PVS
released in 1983.

Holds a unique place in history as being the fist color handheld with interchangeable cartridges (I think). the cartridges where unusual in that they not only held the game's chips but where also the game's LCD display (kind of like a dreamcast VMU). The cartidge/LCD was plugged on the front of the Super Micro. The back-light in the unit would shine through color filters on the back of the LCD thus the monochrome LCDs would appear to be in color to the player (sort of like the Pong and Space Invaders coin-ops with their colored tape on the screen).

The pack-in game was Aladdin's Adventures:
Published 1983 Palmtex Inc.
Developed by Home-Computer Software Inc.
Dan Shafer (Design/cenario)
Chuck Blanchard (Programming)

Aladdin's Adventures was also available as a separate purchase, which suggests the Super Micro could be purchased without a pack-in game or with pack-in game(s) other than Aladdin's Adventures.


Games know to exist:
React Attack (I own the box only)
Aladdin's Adventures
Outflank

Games planned but unconfirmed to have been released:
Crystals of Morga
Mayday
Mine Field
Spellbound
Star Trooper

Hi Zerothis, this is all I have found in "the site that anyone search about anything":

Palmtex released the Home-Computer Software Super Micro Cartridge System. Only three games were made for it.

I urge to add this as soon as possible :-)

Don't you forget these new platforms ?...

Yes I forgot...

...

Added! :-)

New platforms again :

Thomson MO5 (At least 204 games)
Thomson MO6 (At least 8 games)
Thomson TO7 / TO7-70 (At least 130 games)
Thomson TO8 / TO8D (At least 222 games)

All Thomson platforms

Gizmondo (At least 14 games)

Thanks. I didn't know these systems, but I just realized that the MO6 was sold in Italy under another name, Olivetti Prodest PC-128. I remember the commercials in some magazines... :-)

RDI Halcyon by RDI Video Systems.
The first home laser disc system. Promised to bring arcade laser disc games into the home without sacrificing quality. A similar idea to the Neo-Geo system. It was released January 1985, but sold poorly do to the fact that it cost $2,500 for a complete system. But if you already owned a compatible laser disc player (LD-700, VP-1000, LD-1100) then you only needed $1700 for the main unit, headset with mic, keyboard and the pack-in game, Thayer's Quest. The microphone on the headset was used for voice recognition that was built in to the unit along with voice synthesis and an AI. It came with a 1000 word vocabulary (spoken and recognized) and thanks to the AI players could teach it additional words. The first task was to teach it players' names so it could recognize and speak to individuals. It would also keep track players' progress. NFL Football was available at launch, no other games were published.
Thayer's Quest was a special edition of sorts. Containing many scenes that were not completed for the arcade release.
NFL Football was a two disc game that used video from real football games. Disc 1 was Raiders vs Chargers and disc 2 Dallas vs Redskins
The rest of the games were only available as prototypes:
Orpheus
Shadow of the Stars
Voyage to the New World
The Spirit of the Whittier Mansion was of the horror genre and doesn't seem to be intended for children.
The player that came with the complete set played all the usual formats (movies, video, audio disc)

Added! 154 platforms right now!
(stats will be updated in few hours)

Two new platforms from VTech, exclusively for young children :

V.Smile, and a games list from the official website (and the V.Smile Pocket).
V.Flash, and a games list from the official website. Seems that V.Flash is called V.Smile Pro in France, I don't know about other countries.

Difficult to find the release date, this website tells March, 12th 2004, I haven't found any other informations about the date.

Found another platform : Mattel Aquarius

wikipedia
Old-Computers
another link

Found about 20 games running on it.

New platform again :

LaserActive Mega LD.

Wikipedia article.
List of games from Guardiana.

Four new platforms added! :-)

Thanks !

Release date for Mega LD :

Added.

Vtech has been in the console business quite a while.
1981 Vtech CreatiVision (Dick Smith Wizzard, FunVision Computer Video Games System, Hanimex Rameses, Cheryco CreatiVision) This is one of the few game system released in the African market.
1988 Vtech Socrates. All of the known games are currently tagged and listed as CreatiVision games.
199? Vtech V.Smile
2007 Vtech V.Smile (2007 edition)
???? Vtech V.Smile Baby
???? Vtech V.Smile Pocket
???? Vtech V.Flash
2007 Vtech Nitro (new)

V.SMile Pocket has the same games as V.Smile (like Megadrive & Nomad for example). I'm not sure but I think that V.Smile Baby has four games inside when you buy it, then you can't buy additional games.

Name: EXL100
Company: Exelvision
Country: France
Year: 1984
RAM: 32Ko VRAM + 2Ko SRAM
ROM: 4 Ko
Resolution: 320x250x8 colors
CPU: TMS 7041 and TMS 7020 (8 bits, 4.91MHz)
Sound: TMS5520

It seems that around 150 cassettes and cartridges have been released for this machine but most of them are educational non-games, so there may be around 50-75 games available.

Some links :
oldbytes.free.fr/pages/exl100.html
www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=123

I have removed the remainingThomson platforms and added the EXL100.
Couldn't find much on the Vtech Nitro btw...

V.Tech Nitro is a grayscale LCD laptop computer for $30. I have been unable to find out any more than that and V.Tech is much better at specifying buzzwords than specs. Although they backup their buzzwords a lot better than the majority of other game system manufactures. As soon as one arrives in the local radioshack I'll be all over the manual (should take about 9 years for one to arrive, due to the high-tech mandate of the State of Jefferson :)

EDIT:
64x48x2 LCD (black & white)
Stereo, It Speaks (it speaks A LOT)
Proprietary mouse, RJ45 plug
Built-in directional pad with push-to-click
It comes with 78 built-in games
It takes cartridges also, each game and cartridge is numbered
cartridge, 79 Story Time
cartridge, 80 Sing-Along

You can also remove the multiple-Thomson platform while doing an advanced game search.

Another new platform...

GameKing by TimeTop, 2003.

EDIT : And anoher one again...

Super A'Can by FunTech, 1995.

There is a series of portable media players called JXD. The JXD 301 is probably the most famous. Its marketed as a gaming device. But all the JXDs can play games. The interface looks very similar to the GP2X.

BBC Micro and Acorn Electron are quite compatible each other (stairwaytohell.com) so I was thinking to merge the two platforms.

Added Super+A'Can and GameKing.

Tapware Zodiac
Based on Palm OS 5, but has several exclusive games for it that won't run on regular Palm OS. Check the "Zodiac exclusive games" section for better explanation.

Nuon by VM Labs (USA), 2000.

Not new, but note that X-Box and X-Box 360 should be Xbox and Xbox 360. And Playstation still needs to be fixed to be PlayStation.
X-Box is misspelling of the name, and if you go to xbox.com you see it's even there, and I don't think you have any valid point against their judgement how the name should be :)

HP-41. Built-in 63 RAM, HP-41 CPU
HP-41C ("HP Coconut"). Built-in 63 RAM, HP Saturn CPU (20-bit, or 5-nibble, 4-bit word), '12Kbits' ROM
HP-41C Option 001. Built-in 63 RAM, many keys were unlabeled labels so users could write their own function names.
HP-41CV ("HP Coconut 5"). Built-in 319 RAM
HP-41CX ("HP Coconut 10"). Built-in 448 RAM, time module, extended functions, text editor, advantage module,

[[link:http://www.hpmuseum.org/41cv.jpg image]]
[[link:http://www.hpmuseum.org/41port.jpg image of cartridge slots]]
[[link:http://www.hp41.org/LibView.cfm?Command=List&CategoryID=3 The HP-41 is emulated]]

Long winded description:
[[spoiler:Long winded description|The first alpha numeric calculator. It also had sound. The display was LCD, very unusual at the time, most calculators used many tiny LEDs. The 14 segment display (double the size of most other calculators) could displayer numbers, uppercase letters, mathematical symbols, and standard punctuation. It also did lower case letters, less common punctutions, and less common symbols, but only a-e were clearly presented, f-z and the other glyphs were arbitrary symbols that the user would have to learn, most lowercase letters were pretty useless on this calculator. This display allowed it to be user friendly, displaying words instead of just numbers and a few symbols that the user would need the manual to interpret. The LCD display also used less power than LEDs. Other calculators at the time had 2, 3 or 4 shift keys and many, many buttons to access different mathematical functions. The HP-41 only had 34 keys, and 1 shift key, but many more functions that the others. This was because the user could simply spell out the desired function (or its abbreviation) instead of having to type coded key combinations. They could also create custom functions, with custom names. Since functions could be fully spelled out on the display, and entered by spelling them out on the keyboard; full high level programming languages, such as BASIC, could be used. Programs could even be compiled and debugged on the system without an outside development station. It was even possible to reprogram the operating system. Other calculators allowed programming languages, but they were entirely numeric (machine code only). Each key was also fully programmable, the user could assign their favorite 34 functions to the 34 keys. Later models added more keys and more shift keys for convenience after it was realized that being able to type out any function did not eliminate the need to do it fast with key combos. Seeing the function spelled out was the important feature. This little calculator had <b>four</b> cartridge slots for expandability. Accessories available include RAM modules, flash storage, Application cartridges, game cartridges, printer, PPC module (the best of everything in one <i>tiny</i> module), OB CALC SYS ROM (obstetrics ultrasound adapter), magnetic card reader, barcode reader, time modual (allowed the user of alarm clocks, stop watches, calender etc.), aircraft module (supplemental flight instrumentation for small planes), parallel printer port, cassette interface, 3.5" drive, RS-232 port, infrared port, plotter modules, advantage module (added functions that competitors had added to their calculators), backup/multiboot ROM module, touchpad, aviation cartridge, circuit analysis module, surveying module, additional cartridge slots, and video cards. It could be overclocked. The system was powerful enough to emulate systems. HP-67 code and cartridges (with an adapter ) could be run on the HP-41 without slowdown (no need to overclock). Although this calculator is digital RAM was not measured in traditional bytes made of bits. RAM and ROM is measured in 56-bit registers, or 8-bit registers or 64-bit registers on some systems. (14 bytes of 4 bits each could be used, 12-bit bytes, 8-bit addressing, 14-bit addressing, and 16-bit addressing were also used) A original limitation made funtions 1-3 'bytes' in size (also strings could only be 6 characters ). Programmers eventually found ways to make smaller or larger functions and stings. A Total of 63 registers were built in. So a program that was 200-400 lines of code could be translated to run on the HP-41. Memory expansion allowed for up to 124, 238, 319, or 600 registers. The HP-41 only allowed for one program space so all the programs in memory were technically the same program. Each needed unique names to call and needed a distinct END to keep the next program in memory from executing Users would need to keep track of the variables, functions, and labels in use on their system and make sure no programs used a duplicates. Removing a single program from the system without effecting the others took caution and carefully planing. The HP-41C introduced local labels and divided multiple program spaces from the global one. Global and local spaces could interact with each other using specific functions that were added to the HP-41C. A catalog was built in that kept track of all functions and could be used to track user programs as well. Programmers couldn't hide anything from users. Used for 4 N-cell batteries. Some early models had a plug for an external power supply. But battery life and portability features seems to have stayed the demand for this option.

There several are different ways to load programs onto and HP-41
Type it in
Use a R/W storage peripheral (card, disk, cassette, credit card)
Use a ROM cartridge
Use an HP-IL peripheral (Network, disk, cassette)
Use a bard code reader to scan in program code that has been printed in barcode]]

Known games:
[[spoiler:Known games|
26 and 36 (HP-67 port)
3 Dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe
Adventure
Artillery (HP-67 port)
Bagels
Battleship (HP-67 port)
Bell-Fruit (Mills Standard) (HP-67 port)
Big Six (HP-67 port)
Biorythms
Biorhythms (HP-67 port)
Blackjack Betting (HP-67 port)
Blackjack with a Permanent Bank (HP-67 port)
Blackjack (pack-in)
Blackjack (another)
Bowling Scorekeeper (HP-67 port)
The Castle, an Adventure Game
The Caves
Chuck-A-Luck (HP-67 port)
Code Crack
Contract Bridge (HP-67 port)
Craps
Craps (HP-67 port)
The Dealer (HP-67 port)
Dice (HP-67 port)
Dog Race (HP-67 port) A two card game!
Flip-Flop
Flipo
Fruit/Slot Machine Game
Games (a cartridge entitled 'Games')
Game of 21 (Blackjack) (HP-67 port)
Golf (HP-67 port)
Hangman Game
Hangman (another)
Hangman (HP-67 port)
Hangman (HP-67 enhanced port)
Hexapawn
Hexapawn (HP-67 port)
Horse Race (HP-67 port)
Hunt the Wumpus
Le Compte est bon
Mastermind
Mastermind (another)
Mini Chess (Read data from IL device)
Mini Chess (original)
Moon Rocket Lander (HP-67 port, HP-67 pack-in)
Nim_k (HP-67 port)
Orbital Lander
Parapar (HP-67 port)
Pig (HP-67 port)
Pinball
Pinball Wizard
Planet Lander
Poker
Pro Football Simulation (HP-67 port)
Queen Board (HP-67 port)
Racetrack (HP-67 port)
Risk (HP-67 port)
Robot Trap
Roulette (HP-67 port)
Scatter
Simon
Skunk Game
Slot Machine (HP-67 port)
Snakes & Ladders
Space War
Space War 1 (HP-67 port)
Space War 2 (HP-67 port)
Sphynx
Subhunt
Submarine Hunt (HP-67 port)
Super Bagels (HP-67 port)
Teaser (HP-67 port)
Tic Tac Toe (HP-67 port)
Timer (HP-67 port)
Truck
Turn the Die (HP-67 port)
Wari
Wari (HP-67 port)
Word Encoder (HP-67 port)
Word Game Subroutine (HP41 enhanced port)
Word Game Subroutine (HP-67 port)
Word Guessing Game (pack-in)
XOR Game]]

Compatible hardware (with adapters/modules)
[[spoiler:Compatible hardware|
Digital cassette drive 82161A
Disc drive 9114A
Thermal printer/plotter 82162A
Thinkjet printer 2225B
Impact printer 82905B
32 column video interface 82163A
80 column video interface 92198A
Modem (Acoustic coupler) 82168A
HP-IL (Interface Loop, adds a passthrough slot, allows networking)
RS-232 interface 82164A (HP-IL)
GPIO interface 82165A (HP-IL)
GPIO interface kit (HP-IL)
interface 82169A (HP-IL/HP-BL)
Series 80 interface 92938A (HP-IL)
0.5m interface cable
1m interface cable
3m interface cable
5m interface cable]]

NASA technology:
[[spoiler:NASA technology|In 1981, NASA decided that HP-41C was the first calculator that was reliable enough to replace the 5" slide rules that were used for the moon missions and after. Every space shuttle launched with at least one on board until 1991 when NASA deemed 3 IBM thinkpad laptops to be a suitable replacement. The HP-41 was actually discontinued in 1990. They also used Texas Instruments graphic calculators intermittently but kept the HP-41 for its reliability. Also, a Mac Portable ("Mac Dragable") was experimented with in 1991 just before the decision to replace the HP-41 with the thinkpads. HP-41s were used for any necessary but non-vital calculation that would unnecessary burden the shuttles main computer. Such has when data was best be offloaded to a ground station or when a certain object would be in view. Or the time module (NASA received the first one before it was publicly available) was used to time activities & experiments, and sound scheduled alarms. Often multiple HP-41s were on board, one for each crewmember, and they could use the extra ones for superfluous tasks. However, in the event of an emergency where tasks done by main computer needed to be rechecked, or if the main computer failed completely, the HP-41s were loaded with all the necessary programs to completely take over all functions of the main computer. Whiles many COTS (Commercial-off-the-shelf) items that NASA purchases have to be heavily modified before use, the HP-41s only needed some velcro strips an a few bits of plastic removed to prevent possible outgassing associated with some petroleum products.]]

HP-41 added.
Xboxes fixed.
PlayStations fixed.

Not yet sure if Nuon should be just included in the DVD platform ...
... and Tapwave Zodiac to the Palm platform.

Sega Pico, 1993, 4th generation, designed for young children (ages 2-8).



You may be right.

Game Master, 1990?, handheld system by Hartung, Germany. 4th generation.

* CPU: Unknown 8-bit VLSI
* Screen: 64 x 64 Low Resolution LCD
* Color: monochrome black/white tones

Some links :
GameMaster FAQ
Wikipedia

Lots of french and italian clones by Impel, Watara, Delplay, Game Tronic, Videojet, Virella Electronics, Super Game.

Can we add a platform for games played through a TV channel like Fetch ?

-edit-
And more specific like the game "Hugo Délire" (french game, I don't know if this kind of game has existed in other countries) that was like a little TV show. Every show, two selected persons played the game with the television as a screen and the telephone as a gamepad. Here an example of the game (gaming is from 2:00 to 3:00 and 4.30 to 7:20) :

There's a thing called PowerTV, and it seems to be well hidden.
But here's something explained about it: www.powertv.com/developers/PowerTVOSDocs.htm, the rest of the site doesn't seem to mention it much at all.
And at least Gaijin Entertainment is making games for it: gaijinent.com/projects/index.htm


I remember this running here as well years ago, though under different name. I'm already against several other odd cases being added here, and games played on TV channel through your phone are one of them (and will hopefully die out as people can play them on their phones much cheaper).

iPod - we already have few of these listed under Newton(?) and Mobile platforms.

Newton and iPod both use the ARM architecture, they are both by Apple, developers of the newton also worked on the iPod, they both started out as totally different devices than what they ended up as, they both will fit in a pocket, and they share many interface features. adding iPod games to the Newton platform makes at least as much as sense as adding Mac OS X to Mac OS, OS/2 to Win 3.x, and BeOS to Linux/UNIX, probably more.

Oh, and technically its the "Apple MessagePad" running the Newton OS, not actually an "Apple Newton". But everybody calls it an "Apple Newton" and Apple never tried too hard to enforce the name.

There are games for the Texas Instruments line of calculators
[list]
[*]TI-73
[*]TI-82
[*]TI-83
[*]TI-83+ SE
[*]TI-84+ SE
[*]TI-85
[*]TI-86
[*]TI-89
[*]TI-89 Titanium
[*]TI-92
[*]TI-92+
[*]TI-V200 (Voyage 200)
[/list]
One platform for all of them should be sufficient. Especially since very few games work only on one model. I don't think any games will work on all models. Some work on as many as 5 models.

TI Calculators/Texas Instruments Calculators
Suggestion, the edit page and/or the warning area for editors on the infos page should include a notice to be sure to add the hardwares and/or hardware tags for exactly which model(s) the game runs on.

These calculators include a BASIC based language but most games are in assembly; mainly because the built-in BASIC shares the resources of the operating system and thus severely limits the game quality. There are alternate operating systems and shells for the different models, there are also alternate kernels, including Linux of course. I will probably look into these later for their relationship to games and tagging purposes.
And of course, their are emulators to fully implement TI Calculators on other platforms, including official emulators by Texas Instruments.

As the owner and amateur programmer of an Apple II+ and a TI-85, I found the TI-85 to be nearly as capable except for color and sound. Many games for these calculators are just as high quality, or even higher than the original gameboy. Work-a-like clones of Excitebike, Super Mario World, and Ultima V have been created without sacrificing features or gameplay (excluding, obviously, color graphics and sound). The Link's Awakening conversion is pixel perfect.

Notices/instructions would be nice in many things besides the platforms. I doubt the platform pages are checked frequently, so storing platform specific instructions in them has its flaws.

In case of the TI calculators, I'd imagine the platform selection would become less strange if the platform name didn't have specific numbers in it, making it more obvious it's for all models.

Handheld console with 20 games embedded.
www.segaretro.net/

Think it would be best to include it with some generic handheld device platform as game compilation than its own platform.

Didn't see anything appropriate in the platform list besides mobile, but that's for phones (and should be kept that way).