Bob_Semple_-_Stock.car (202.0 KB)
im a bit late but here’s the .car for the bob Semple
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1996 Bob Semple MBT-Block A Why did I built this for a week? I don’t know, but damn it turned out pretty well
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Your collection has been replenished with another interesting model. I recommend sending it to Beam so that it does not disappear.
B I G B O B
“hey google, what’s the closest thing between a cruise missile and an oversized carbon fibre bucket?”
2023 AT Lycoris SSC, (probably) automation’s first SuperSonic Car made in 4.24
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1985-93 SALEM 3700
Sanju is not only a manufacturer of vehicles like the Sanju trucks and IP cars. As many other asian companies, Sanju is a big conglomerate that makes everything you can think of. Among their different branches are the Salem line of consumer electronics (SAnju Light and Electric Manufacturing).
In the mid 80s, with the Nintendo Famicom and Sega SG1000 being successful, Salem wanted their piece of the cake too. Engineering an all new videogame system was out of the question to get something out on the market quickly, though. Instead , they used a famous loophole and reverse engineered an Atari 2600. The reason was that since the 2600 only used off the shelf components, copying the technology was both easy and legal. So, the Salem 3700 Advanced electronic colour home video game system, launched on the market in 1985 was totally compatible with all the Atari 2600 software. Granted, it also meant that it was a pretty dated console already in the mid 80s.
It was shipped with a multicart featuring 8 games:
“Maze game” - running around in a maze eating pills and being chased by ghosts (weird, indeed!)
“Invasion from space” - exactly what it sounds like
“Space game” - flying around in space shooting asteroids
“Table tennis” - Who would have thought about doing a VIDEOGAME about that sport?
“Midnight rally” - Like all the games not an Atari ripoff and absolutely not of Night Driver.
“Panzer battle” - Two tanks shooting at each other, so original.
“Blockbuster” - Like Table tennis but crush a wall with your ball instead
“Phone home” - Maybe the worst game in history
The pamphlet included with the console did show the upcoming releases of this stuff, none of then did ever reach the market:
Keyboard and mouse (Who were they fooling?)
“Educational cartridge” - To be used with the above. Ah! We are trying to convince grandparents that this is actually GOOD for children.
“Super guy in monkey land” - Some weird platformer probably
“Super guy in mushroom land” - Probably some even more weird platformer
“Polybius” - hard to tell from the screenshot of the prototype what it is even supposed to be.
While it reached some success in its home market (mainly for being made in Ariya and not japanese…), in the western markets it was mainly sold at discount stores with a very lukewarm success, one of the reasons being the compatibility with the Atari 2600 being largely unknown, as it was never mentioned on the box for legal reasons. In its home market, pirated Atari cartridges were the main source of software, since the compatibility was more widely known there.
The Salem 3700 was produced until 1993.
(Yes, there is a reason why this will soon become relevant in Automationverse).
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