PHILIPS G7400 |
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CPU 8084 Intel 1.79 Mhz
VALUE G7400
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The first Videopac game to take advantage of the enhanced capabilities of the 7400 was Terrahawks, Videopac 51, thus making the further cartridges from that point on Videopac Plus enhanced, they also released new versions of some of the older previously available cartridges such as Race, Stonesling, Satellite Attack, Freedom fighters, & Pickaxe Pete.
Since then a flashpoint ROM was discovered, Flashpoint was to be the release game for the American version of the G7400 called the Odyssey3. This has been released by enthusiast Dieter Konig of Classic Consoles Centre as Videopac 63, for which he also supplies a wooden joystick holder as flashpoint was intended for the O3 which had built in controller securing it was intended to be played by one player with tow controllers simultaneously TRANS AMERICAN RALLY SCREEN Comparison Between G7000 and G7400 |
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![]() And Here we see the same cartridge plugged into a G7400 |
Unless the manufacturers are the driving force behind a consoles software the third party games developers want as big a market base as possible and will initially only develop software that works on both machines until the more powerful machine takes off, but it wont take off unless the games are available, its a vicious circle, one that springs to mind that did however break the circle of backward compatibility was the PS2, however that was a dramatic improvement on the PS1 which had billions of loyal customers waiting for the next generation of console, and I don't think the backward compatibility to the PS1 was ever much of a deciding factor in this purchase. Anyway back to compatibility, likewise of you being able
to play standard carts on the 7400 you were also able to play most 7400 (or
Videopac +_ carts on your older G7000 model machine with out the as seen above
graphical improvements (forward compatibility now that is unheard of).
There was also a change made to the keyboard layout of the 7400 from the G7000,
a slightly smaller layout with more keys, however these still were never used,
and so the two Keyboard overlays had to be reworked for the newer model, Quest
for the Rings & Musician.
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