I had a Pocket Rocker when I was in elementary school (early to mid 90s). I had one tape and it was Walk like an Egyptian/Manic Monday. I took it with me on a field trip and listened to it while walking a 2 mile trail around a lake. I didn't have earphones for it, so everyone had to listen to those two songs on a loop with me for the whole 2 miles. I wasn't allowed to bring it to school anymore. haha oops.
WOW. I was born in 88, but I grew up with CEDs in the house, it was how I watched Star Wars for the first time growing up! But more amazing is my discovery that Quiz Wiz was originally from the 70's! I got an updated version made by Tiger in 93 for Christmas, it had a clamshell design that stored the quiz book inside the device without need for a little "book" to put the computer unit in, and it had a voice sample for YES and NO.
I remember getting a Quiz Wiz for Christmas when I was about seven years old. Sadly it was impossible to find any other cartridges than the one that came with it. I loved that toy so much.
@David Withnall: The 80s are whimsical because of how much effort was put into computer even toys vs now when computers are a mundane dependency which the world literally ends if the internet is down because everyone would be helpless.
I remember using the Quiz Wiz with the Star Wars questions, there was a wrong answer on it, I bet my friends a pizza and we pulled out the movie, Princess Leia said the secret base was on Dantooine, but the answer on it said Tatooine... I won the pizza..
That last one is cool. I used to have Quiz Wiz, but that one was by Tiger, the same company that made crappy handheld games like the AVGN did in past episodes. Coleco made Quiz Wiz from 1978 through the 1980's before it was bought out by Tiger in the 1990's and released Quiz Wiz in a portable compact form with small interchangeable cartridges instead of bulky. I used to play Quiz Wiz all the time, and the sounds in the game are different where the synthesized voice would say "Yes", "No", "Correct" or "Wrong". It comes with little booklets of 1001 questions in each category. I missed playing Quiz Wiz.
I remember my Jr College in the early 80's bought a couple of RCA Selectavision players and a bunch of classic movies (a lot of James Bond) for our dorm TV's. After the second semester a couple of players had died and the most popular discs were all scratched up from the times they were played.
I was going to mention that. It's hard to tell for sure because the camera's microphone is picking up a tinny little loudspeaker, but those 2 songs didn't sound like they were being performed by The Bangles. I'm no die hard Bangles fan, but I've heard both of those songs often enough to know what they sound like. I'd really need to hear these songs from start to end before I could tell you for sure whether they're the original recording or whether they're performed by mimics.
It's a good song, but I couldn't personally say it's a song I can't get enough of. Though I like The Bangles, they're not what I'd call one of my favourites.
Weird thing about the Quiz Wiz: We had one when I was a kid and I noticed that if you choose the wrong answer, but haven't pressed enter yet, it would emit the faintest of buzzes. You could then clear your answer and try another. When you chose the right answer you would not hear the buzz (it's possible it was the reverse - buzzing for the correct answer and not for the wrong one - it's been a long time). Strange thing to notice, but hey - I was nine years old.
I remember pocket rockers, never knew anybody that had one though. they seemed to be aimed at older kids and teens. hence why I was really surprised it was made by Fisher price, mostly known for baby toys
Toys R Us carried the Pocket Rockers in the late 80s. The device itself wasn't very expensive but the cassettes were, seemed like you got 2 tapes to a pack and they were nearly $10--for 4 songs. I never knew anyone who had one.
Radio Shack, a General Wireless Operations company, is located in Fort Worth, Texas 76102. I was referring the Egyptian people to as The Bangles, a popular 80s band, formed by Belinda Carlisle. OMG! Is that Tiffany? She's kinda cute as one of the most popular girls from the 80s because she's kinda pretty. Tiger Electronics brought the Quiz Wiz electronic toy back during the 90s but it didn't sell very well.
The cartridges were probably just jumpers made by copper traces on the circuit board. Would assign a different lookup table (or change pattern) of the already stored data in the PROM of the Wizard. I bet it has a 4 bit jumper assignment to allow up to 16 variations of quiz books.
No, they licensed the PR's music from the original artists. It was a fad around '89-90 & largely gone by '91. As the tapes were also marketed as fashion accessories, it soon became "cool" to wear as many tapes as possible (& to try and beat out other students). It also lead to the players being banned from many schools.
Way cooler than normal LP discs if only music albums were supplied in caddies this format might have lasted up to the present day maybe there would not be much record art of old LPs cut up into various shapes.
man how do you find CED players so easily? i only ever find the discs. also the pocket rocker tapes were pretty neat, never knew a format like that existed.
That little cartridge system doesn't sound bad at all! It's too bad it was just a kiddie fad. I like the multiple choice quiz game too! Seems like something that would make a decent party game.
The basic QuizWhiz cartridge was not very high-tech. There was a pattern to the answers. Instead of storing 1001 answers, the actual number was in the single digits. It's possible that the data was stored in the console, not the cartridge.
1:50 - Well they're not strictly vinyl, it's kinda like a hybrid between a giant floppy and a vinyl record in what amounts to a strangely-operating CD caddy.
those ced-1's always seem to have ended up in bad shape, its nice to see one in working condition despite its base model. people dont think these players have any value because of the lack of features, but they make great players to pre play a disc on :)
No-one demos old phones (and modern ones not mobiles) which l find FASCINATING. Even office phones were so tactile and had all sorts of clever tech with std messages responding to callers and voice mail call forwarding BTT. ( before their time - avant-garde not British telecom ha!)
The issue with the pocket rocker is that they never put Coven on it. How can you have a music format from the 80's without classics such as 6669, and Mcdonaldland massacre?
i honestly think the hitachi version of the video record player this man used to own looks nicer than the one in this video because it has a simulated wooden look
Really, yeah. Can't believe a guy plugged even part way into pop culture would not know the Bangles. As for the rest of the presentation ... my God we were easily entertained in the late 70s/early 80s
I know who the Bangles are, but apparently Fisher-Price didn't since they put art on the cartridge instead of a picture of the band. In any case, thanks for your comments.
Wow, those are cool tiny little tapes! I remember when you showed us some others like this, but now we've seen the players, so that's even better! (I think you didn't have players for those before. I could go back and look, but.... Well anyway, do I remember right?)
Mattel is currently planning to relaunch the Pocket Rockers toy line (as Barbie Pocket Rockers) which might play music from today’s artists (Ashley Tisdale, JoJo Siwa, Kelsea Ballerini, etc)
@@databits Exactly Ashley Tisdale - Never Gonna Give You Up / Headstrong JoJo Siwa - Boomerang / Hold the Drama I’m not sure what songs are on Kelsea Ballerini’s Pocket Rockers release
In theory they were always contained within the sleeve and could not be handled without using tools to trigger the releases and extract the disc from the sleeve. The only thing that should ever touch the disc is the stylus which is controlled by the player and not manually placed so baring a malfunction it should never scratch the disc. So the opportunity to scratch them was very limited. But in the end, they are vinyl disc so when mishandled or in the event of a player malfunction they are as susceptible to scratching as any record. They do have a PVC/Carbon core so, between that and living in the sleeve, breakage is not much of an issue. The needle does have physical contact with the disc, just like a record player's stylus, so there is an element of physical wear and tear with each use and eventually the disc will wear out. But with the differences in handling outlined above it is at a far lower impact than with a standard record.
Do the Quiz Wiz cartridges have any electronics, or are they just books that sit on top? If they have no electronics, then the answers to every question should be the same. 91 is always B, 92 is always D, etc.
a record is not obsolete because record player technology has been salvage and optimized and the important question is if pocket rocker includes a Rick Astley cassette?
You whomever you are watching l am sooo envious because every single bit of kit l bought never worked properly. So l am a techno cynic (love the idea of technology but know deep inside it never works for me) even mobile phones. Don't know whether its because they just send sh*t to the UK cos they know were stiff upper lip and never complain about it or whether l have just been unlucky. I'm talking miele dishwashers freeview boxes ALL so really expensive and also cheap stuff. My first TV was an old 16:9 Sony projector TV which cost £1600 nearly 20 years ago. Like £10k now. I guess it was just bad luck as noone l know seemed to have the same run of bad luck (only with electronics mind you as my life generally has been exceptional. Maybe than was the yan of the yin or some Eastern metaphor. WHAT I AM SAYING IS I GET A REAL PLEASURE OUT OF VIDEOS LIKE THIS WATCHING STUFF THAT ACTUALLY WORKS THE WAY IT SHOULD AND WATCHING YOU , A TINY BIT ENVIOUS LY, GET SO MUCH PLEASURE DEMO-ING it all KEEP POSTING PLEASE GREAT STUFF!!!! (WHAT ABOUT THE PHILIPS SKI SLOPE CASSETTE PLAYER I THINK N2400. HAVE YOU EVER SEE THAT MACHINE - WAY UP THERE WITH CONCORDE IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.)
I am so going to get a pocket rockers player and as many tapes as I can find once they can be found on amazon. It would be cool if you could record your own pocket rocker tapes.
There are two mono tracks on the tapes and if you can find an eaten tape you can bulk load it with tape and then mod a broken pocket rockers into a recorder somehow maybe attach wires from a regular player into the pocket rockers tape head. and then hit record on the regular player and press the pocket rockers tape down and then play your song. the youtuber CassetteMaster does things like that. I recorded a tape of a bunch of "copyright free on youtube" songs onto a regular tape using my stereo and then played it back on a melody in motion whistling clown tape unit.
They do use standard width tape and standard speed. Techmoan did a little experiment and there are two mono tracks, each track has a song. You switch between the two.
IMHO the quiz wiz looks very primitive even for 1980. It could have done much more if they had added a simple 7 segment display. Keep track of scores for 2 or four players, a countdown to limit your time, select questions for you at random etc.
Remember, it was designed way back in the 60s! It would have been a breakthrough. But for various reasons it was delayed way too much. In the 80s it did not have a real chance...
I'm curious, what is so ridiculous about the CED format? I have a CED player and it has many discs that are not offered on BluRay, DVD or Laserdisc. It was a revolution that it can play video on a slightly modified vinyl record thus making it at the time a very attractive alternative to the price of LD and VCR tapes. It wasn't for everyone just as BluRay isn't for everyone now. And it can be a bear to keep one running, but it's rewarding in a nostalgic way and movies are dirt cheap. I've picked up CED movies for a dollar or less.
That quizwiz would,ve been waaay nicer if iit was voice based using voice samples rather then using only leds,it would would,ve ben also nice if it say's the questions once you type in those corresponding numbers. Seriously this is boring, i can imagine that kids would,ve enough from this after 2 or 5 minutes.
In the early 90s, Tiger Electronics made a revised Quiz Wiz that indeed did have speech, but the speech only told you if you answered the question correctly or not, you still needed to read the questions from the books. All Quiz Wiz said was, "yes", "no", "right", and "wrong". I think the Tiger version had a few extra buttons and I think if memory serves me correctly, you'd type in the question number then press enter, then press the corresponding answer letter and it would immediately tell you whether your answer was correct or not. I think there was a clear button and a start button too, I think the start button turned Quiz Wiz on, there was no power on/off switch. There was a sound on/off switch though, the sound on/off switch turned the voice on and off.
I had a Pocket Rocker when I was in elementary school (early to mid 90s). I had one tape and it was Walk like an Egyptian/Manic Monday. I took it with me on a field trip and listened to it while walking a 2 mile trail around a lake. I didn't have earphones for it, so everyone had to listen to those two songs on a loop with me for the whole 2 miles. I wasn't allowed to bring it to school anymore. haha oops.
I had one with the same tape.I also had the Fat Boys Lol!!
WOW. I was born in 88, but I grew up with CEDs in the house, it was how I watched Star Wars for the first time growing up!
But more amazing is my discovery that Quiz Wiz was originally from the 70's! I got an updated version made by Tiger in 93 for Christmas, it had a clamshell design that stored the quiz book inside the device without need for a little "book" to put the computer unit in, and it had a voice sample for YES and NO.
I remember getting a Quiz Wiz for Christmas when I was about seven years old. Sadly it was impossible to find any other cartridges than the one that came with it.
I loved that toy so much.
@David Withnall: The 80s are whimsical because of how much effort was put into computer even toys vs now when computers are a mundane dependency which the world literally ends if the internet is down because everyone would be helpless.
The Strange Egyptian People is the name of my new Bangles cover band.
I pre-ordered your CD!
I remember using the Quiz Wiz with the Star Wars questions, there was a wrong answer on it, I bet my friends a pizza and we pulled out the movie, Princess Leia said the secret base was on Dantooine, but the answer on it said Tatooine... I won the pizza..
Great comment, thanks for sharing! Pizza for the win!
we had that one. mid 90s. i found a quiz wiz from the mid 90s at a garage sale. still works.
Didn't family guy star wars also indicate it was Tatooine?
Amazing sound quality on the rocker. the CED works great. I do remember them, got one at a goodwill. The best load ever.
That last one is cool. I used to have Quiz Wiz, but that one was by Tiger, the same company that made crappy handheld games like the AVGN did in past episodes. Coleco made Quiz Wiz from 1978 through the 1980's before it was bought out by Tiger in the 1990's and released Quiz Wiz in a portable compact form with small interchangeable cartridges instead of bulky. I used to play Quiz Wiz all the time, and the sounds in the game are different where the synthesized voice would say "Yes", "No", "Correct" or "Wrong". It comes with little booklets of 1001 questions in each category. I missed playing Quiz Wiz.
Never had the Quiz Wiz (came out in 78, the year I was born), but my first game console was a Colecovision.
I remember my Jr College in the early 80's bought a couple of RCA Selectavision players and a bunch of classic movies (a lot of James Bond) for our dorm TV's. After the second semester a couple of players had died and the most popular discs were all scratched up from the times they were played.
Walk Like an Egyptian and Manic Monday was recorded by the Bangles.
Glad you said it. Strange egyptian people FFS.
BAZFANSHOTHITS I think this version was actually a knockoff. I remember the TV ads, and they never mentioned the Bangles by name.
I was going to mention that. It's hard to tell for sure because the camera's microphone is picking up a tinny little loudspeaker, but those 2 songs didn't sound like they were being performed by The Bangles. I'm no die hard Bangles fan, but I've heard both of those songs often enough to know what they sound like. I'd really need to hear these songs from start to end before I could tell you for sure whether they're the original recording or whether they're performed by mimics.
right on I loved that song walk like an Egyptian back then just couldn't get enough of it
It's a good song, but I couldn't personally say it's a song I can't get enough of. Though I like The Bangles, they're not what I'd call one of my favourites.
Weird thing about the Quiz Wiz: We had one when I was a kid and I noticed that if you choose the wrong answer, but haven't pressed enter yet, it would emit the faintest of buzzes. You could then clear your answer and try another. When you chose the right answer you would not hear the buzz (it's possible it was the reverse - buzzing for the correct answer and not for the wrong one - it's been a long time).
Strange thing to notice, but hey - I was nine years old.
I remember pocket rockers, never knew anybody that had one though. they seemed to be aimed at older kids and teens. hence why I was really surprised it was made by Fisher price, mostly known for baby toys
Good point! I think if Sony had branded them, older kids may have taken them more seriously.
Toys R Us carried the Pocket Rockers in the late 80s. The device itself wasn't very expensive but the cassettes were, seemed like you got 2 tapes to a pack and they were nearly $10--for 4 songs. I never knew anyone who had one.
I couldn't afford them when they were new.
My dad just said "nope" when my sister showed him one.
Radio Shack, a General Wireless Operations company, is located in Fort Worth, Texas 76102.
I was referring the Egyptian people to as The Bangles, a popular 80s band, formed by Belinda Carlisle.
OMG! Is that Tiffany? She's kinda cute as one of the most popular girls from the 80s because she's kinda pretty.
Tiger Electronics brought the Quiz Wiz electronic toy back during the 90s but it didn't sell very well.
As a kid in the 80's, I don't remember the Pocket Rocker. I remember HipClips in the 90's.
I remember for less than a half second they had MP3 tunes back in the late 90s you could get in cereal and other products...
The crappy Coleco Quiz Whiz never used ROM cartridges. They were just simulated circuit boards. No chip.
What does what you believe to be "simulated circuit boards" mean, specifically, in your estimation?
The cartridges were probably just jumpers made by copper traces on the circuit board. Would assign a different lookup table (or change pattern) of the already stored data in the PROM of the Wizard. I bet it has a 4 bit jumper assignment to allow up to 16 variations of quiz books.
late, but it is a jumper, I took one
of mine apart way back when haha
is pocket rockers still avalabe I've kind of miss it i have that toy in my childhood in 1997
That Charlotte's Web movie was my childhood. It's very sad that no one else I know remembers it at all. I still know all the songs.
Fantastic video,! These pocket rocker music takes sound like cover versions of the original hits? An awseome format never seen before
No, they licensed the PR's music from the original artists. It was a fad around '89-90 & largely gone by '91. As the tapes were also marketed as fashion accessories, it soon became "cool" to wear as many tapes as possible (& to try and beat out other students). It also lead to the players being banned from many schools.
The Quizwiz sold under the Jumbo brand in the Netherlands.
Way cooler than normal LP discs if only music albums were supplied in caddies this format might have lasted up to the present day maybe there would not be much record art of old LPs cut up into various shapes.
man how do you find CED players so easily? i only ever find the discs. also the pocket rocker tapes were pretty neat, never knew a format like that existed.
That little cartridge system doesn't sound bad at all! It's too bad it was just a kiddie fad. I like the multiple choice quiz game too! Seems like something that would make a decent party game.
The basic QuizWhiz cartridge was not very high-tech. There was a pattern to the answers. Instead of storing 1001 answers, the actual number was in the single digits.
It's possible that the data was stored in the console, not the cartridge.
1:50 - Well they're not strictly vinyl, it's kinda like a hybrid between a giant floppy and a vinyl record in what amounts to a strangely-operating CD caddy.
those ced-1's always seem to have ended up in bad shape, its nice to see one in working condition despite its base model. people dont think these players have any value because of the lack of features, but they make great players to pre play a disc on :)
I love the design!
No-one demos old phones (and modern ones not mobiles) which l find FASCINATING. Even office phones were so tactile and had all sorts of clever tech with std messages responding to callers and voice mail call forwarding BTT. ( before their time - avant-garde not British telecom ha!)
I wanted a pocket rocker.
It's quite spectacular only if we haven't seen it?
Tomita music on the Logo ... yes !
Hehe, you could do a Quiz Wiz live stream.
True that!
The issue with the pocket rocker is that they never put Coven on it. How can you have a music format from the 80's without classics such as 6669, and Mcdonaldland massacre?
i honestly think the hitachi version of the video record player this man used to own looks nicer than the one in this video because it has a simulated wooden look
I just don't understand why a mono audio output unless you buy the accessory cord
This was to make the product cheaper. Every option was expensive back then!
Did plugging the different books into the device actually program anything or do they all just use the same answer letters?
The "cartridges" had no chips.
So I guess that means that every number has been hard-programmed with the same correct-answer letter.
Really, yeah. Can't believe a guy plugged even part way into pop culture would not know the Bangles. As for the rest of the presentation ... my God we were easily entertained in the late 70s/early 80s
I know who the Bangles are, but apparently Fisher-Price didn't since they put art on the cartridge instead of a picture of the band. In any case, thanks for your comments.
That’s not the bangles singing lol
Wow, those are cool tiny little tapes! I remember when you showed us some others like this, but now we've seen the players, so that's even better! (I think you didn't have players for those before. I could go back and look, but.... Well anyway, do I remember right?)
Mattel is currently planning to relaunch the Pocket Rockers toy line (as Barbie Pocket Rockers) which might play music from today’s artists (Ashley Tisdale, JoJo Siwa, Kelsea Ballerini, etc)
That’s amazing!
@@databits
Exactly
Ashley Tisdale - Never Gonna Give You Up / Headstrong
JoJo Siwa - Boomerang / Hold the Drama
I’m not sure what songs are on Kelsea Ballerini’s Pocket Rockers release
Trademarks Owned by Their Respective Companies
Radio Shack - General Wireless Operations
Fisher-Price and Pocket Rockers - Mattel
Quiz Wiz - Hasbro
Agreed.
The Bangles they had hit clips players too
one lil question the ced disc's did they get scratchy like regular lp records do
In theory they were always contained within the sleeve and could not be handled without using tools to trigger the releases and extract the disc from the sleeve. The only thing that should ever touch the disc is the stylus which is controlled by the player and not manually placed so baring a malfunction it should never scratch the disc. So the opportunity to scratch them was very limited. But in the end, they are vinyl disc so when mishandled or in the event of a player malfunction they are as susceptible to scratching as any record. They do have a PVC/Carbon core so, between that and living in the sleeve, breakage is not much of an issue.
The needle does have physical contact with the disc, just like a record player's stylus, so there is an element of physical wear and tear with each use and eventually the disc will wear out. But with the differences in handling outlined above it is at a far lower impact than with a standard record.
Well said Brazbit. Appreciate the comments and helpful information!!
VERY COOL VIDEO.
Thanks Gio
I would buy a pocket rocker now l think they're cool. I want one...😊
Do the Quiz Wiz cartridges have any electronics, or are they just books that sit on top? If they have no electronics, then the answers to every question should be the same. 91 is always B, 92 is always D, etc.
a record is not obsolete because record player technology has been salvage and optimized and the important question is if pocket rocker includes a Rick Astley cassette?
I can't see the point in the Coleco thingee.
The fact I got question 1, 2 and 3 right without havibg heard of any of these things is concerning.
Cool video🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
Thank you my frend
No, thank you!
You whomever you are watching l am sooo envious because every single bit of kit l bought never worked properly. So l am a techno cynic (love the idea of technology but know deep inside it never works for me) even mobile phones. Don't know whether its because they just send sh*t to the UK cos they know were stiff upper lip and never complain about it or whether l have just been unlucky. I'm talking miele dishwashers freeview boxes ALL so really expensive and also cheap stuff. My first TV was an old 16:9 Sony projector TV which cost £1600 nearly 20 years ago. Like £10k now. I guess it was just bad luck as noone l know seemed to have the same run of bad luck (only with electronics mind you as my life generally has been exceptional. Maybe than was the yan of the yin or some Eastern metaphor. WHAT I AM SAYING IS I GET A REAL PLEASURE OUT OF VIDEOS LIKE THIS WATCHING STUFF THAT ACTUALLY WORKS THE WAY IT SHOULD AND WATCHING YOU , A TINY BIT ENVIOUS LY, GET SO MUCH PLEASURE DEMO-ING it all KEEP POSTING PLEASE GREAT STUFF!!!!
(WHAT ABOUT THE PHILIPS SKI SLOPE CASSETTE PLAYER I THINK N2400. HAVE YOU EVER SEE THAT MACHINE - WAY UP THERE WITH CONCORDE IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.)
Thank you! :)
I am so going to get a pocket rockers player and as many tapes as I can find once they can be found on amazon. It would be cool if you could record your own pocket rocker tapes.
I'm trying to figure out a way to do that!
There are two mono tracks on the tapes and if you can find an eaten tape you can bulk load it with tape and then mod a broken pocket rockers into a recorder somehow maybe attach wires from a regular player into the pocket rockers tape head. and then hit record on the regular player and press the pocket rockers tape down and then play your song. the youtuber CassetteMaster does things like that.
I recorded a tape of a bunch of "copyright free on youtube" songs onto a regular tape using my stereo and then played it back on a melody in motion whistling clown tape unit.
They do use standard width tape and standard speed. Techmoan did a little experiment and there are two mono tracks, each track has a song. You switch between the two.
I had a pocket rocker
Please make new video. I've watched them all
Thanks for watching them all!
19:50 clear 94 is a radio station lol
IMHO the quiz wiz looks very primitive even for 1980. It could have done much more if they had added a simple 7 segment display. Keep track of scores for 2 or four players, a countdown to limit your time, select questions for you at random etc.
Any kid that bought that knock off bangles tape= 😐
I remember the video disc player
Very. Nice
Now I see where Techmoan gets all his ideas from...
With CED, RCA designed the death of the company. It was a rediculous format - just stupidly rediculous.
True, but the correct spelling is actually ridiculous...and don't forget charming!
Remember, it was designed way back in the 60s! It would have been a breakthrough. But for various reasons it was delayed way too much. In the 80s it did not have a real chance...
It was pretty cool becuase movies of a vinyl record but it had many flaws. It’s a pretty charming format but it brought down the rca company with it
I'm curious, what is so ridiculous about the CED format? I have a CED player and it has many discs that are not offered on BluRay, DVD or Laserdisc. It was a revolution that it can play video on a slightly modified vinyl record thus making it at the time a very attractive alternative to the price of LD and VCR tapes. It wasn't for everyone just as BluRay isn't for everyone now. And it can be a bear to keep one running, but it's rewarding in a nostalgic way and movies are dirt cheap. I've picked up CED movies for a dollar or less.
"charming"
That quizwiz would,ve been waaay nicer if iit was voice based using voice samples rather then using only leds,it would would,ve ben also nice if it say's the questions once you type in those corresponding numbers.
Seriously this is boring, i can imagine that kids would,ve enough from this after 2 or 5 minutes.
In the early 90s, Tiger Electronics made a revised Quiz Wiz that indeed did have speech, but the speech only told you if you answered the question correctly or not, you still needed to read the questions from the books. All Quiz Wiz said was, "yes", "no", "right", and "wrong". I think the Tiger version had a few extra buttons and I think if memory serves me correctly, you'd type in the question number then press enter, then press the corresponding answer letter and it would immediately tell you whether your answer was correct or not. I think there was a clear button and a start button too, I think the start button turned Quiz Wiz on, there was no power on/off switch. There was a sound on/off switch though, the sound on/off switch turned the voice on and off.
go ahead, say it out loud...
it...out loud
Manic Monday sounded horrible, terrible cover band.