Many tapes also require repair due to their advanced age. However, the tapes are still quite rare, due to the obscurity of the console. The console was largely forgotten until August 2017 when the TechMoan YouTube channel acquired a unit and some games to demonstrate. Also, it needed to be able to recognize when no one answered correctly, and thus, not provide the bonus question.
#8 TRACK TAPE WIKI PASSWORD#
In more complicated games, such as Password Plus, the system needed to know when at least one person had guessed the correct password in order to know when to stop giving clues. In simple games, such as Pat Summerall's Sports Quiz, switching the stereo lines could be used to present a congratulatory message whenever at least one player answered correctly. This would also enable to console to mute the load buzzes that would otherwise be heard when the next section of program data was pulled from the audiotape.
The speaker on the Omni was mono, but the programming data enabled the system to switch between the two stereo lines depending on the outcome of the game. Even Sesame Street's own Big Bird was pulled into the mix with a single Sesame Street game.
#8 TRACK TAPE WIKI MOVIE#
Celebrities, such as horror movie icon Vincent Price and the legendary sportscaster Pat Summerall lent their voices for their respective trivia games. Milton-Bradley was able to license existing game shows, such as Jeopardy and Password Plus to use with the system. The system focused on trivia games, as the 8-track tapes were perfect for holding audio recordings of the questions being asked. As a result, the system and its games have fallen into obscurity, with only a few having resurfaced online. However, it is believed that the Omni was a market failure due to being far too expensive for a trivia game. The Omni also only used one of the four stereo programs at any given time during a game, while the 2-XL needed to be manually switched between the four stereo programs to give different responses for different answers. However, the Milton-Bradley Omni also placed programming data on these tapes to allow the system to know the correct answer to the questions and check it against the answers that were typed in via the keypads. The games were audio-only and were stored on 8-track tapes, similar to the famous Mego 2-XL Robot toy. The console was designed to allow up to four people to sit around it and use the built-in keypads to answer trivia questions.
The Milton-Bradley Omni Entertainment System was a game console released by Milton-Bradley around 1980, via their MB Electronics division.
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