The Omni from Milton Bradley is a product that straddles 70s and 80s technologies. At it’s core, it’s a game, an electronic quiz machine. However if you examine the way it works, it could be described as an interactive computer that reads program data from tapes…. 8-track tapes. In the video above I demonstrate what it does and how it does it…but first I have to get it working.
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FPC (Frequently posted comments)
Q) Hey is that Vincent Price reading the questions?
A) Yes – on the Vincent Price’s Movie Quiz Cartridge Game – it’s Vincent Price speaking.
Q) Will you post a sample of the audio?
A) Yes – here it is
Q) How many questions are on a cart.
A) It depends how long the questions take to ask and how they are laid out on the tape. E.G. Password+ will have a lot less than Words Words Words which is more quick fire. Without counting each individual one I can’t say for sure…but you can get an idea from the fact that all the tapes I’ve dubbed have been 80 minutes – so contain 4 x 20 minute programmes. So the maximum length of a single quiz is 20 minutes plus the time it takes the players to answer the questions, minus the time it takes for the tape to play the answers and move between them. You could get perhaps 30-40 questions maximum on one program, so 120-160 per cartridge.
…and to all those people going on about wasted epoxy, you’re assuming I didn’t have anything else in the house that needed repairing at the same time…like a snapped controller mount on a mini arcade machine for example.
…and I see a few people complaining that Jeopardy doesn’t work exactly like it does on TV…I’m not really sure what I’m supposed to do about that.
WIKIPEDIA
A few people have found the new Wikipedia entry for the Omni
and are informing me I was wrong when I said it didn’t have an entry. Well I was right at the time I made the video as that Wikipedia Omni page has been created directly as a result of people watching this video…it didn’t exist before, but it does now. If you search for ‘Techmoan’ on Wikipedia you’ll also find a few other articles that refer back to some of my videos.
