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The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A is a home computer released in June 1981 in the United States. It is an enhanced version of the less successful TI-99/4 which was released in late 1979. ... The system failed to catch on with third party developers, with the majority of games and other software created and sold by TI.Eventually Texas Instruments sold over 2.5 million units of the TI-99/4A. However the company decided that computers were not a promising business and dropped out of the PC market in 1984.
Fun Fact: The spokesman for almost every Ti-99/4A tv ads was Bill Cosby (Yes That Bill Cosby) and joked how easy it was to sell a computer by paying people $100 to buy one.
To see what I mean CLICK on the links below on Bill's ads on the Ti-99/4a
Bill Cosby's TI-99/4A Printed Ad
Bill Cosby's TI-99/4A TV Ad .
My back story I got this for free as a gift from one of my aunt's friend as they where upgrading there PC from Ti-99/4A to an Apple IIe and shoe box full or game carts.
There are 333 known programs for the TI99/4A but when the 4A model game out it launch with 8 game carts
A-Maze-Ing
Adventure
Blackjack & Poker
Blasto
Hustle
Mind Challengers
The Attack
Tombstone City
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This was the first real computer I ever laid eyes on, in 1981/82 when I was 11/12. A teacher at my school bought one into to show some of us who were interested, and up to that time I'd only seen computers he'd made from kits! That said, I don't recall that he had any games for it. I do remember a 'game' on it (not sure what cartridge it was on) that would tell you your 'biorhythm' for the day (biorhythms were a late 70s health/wellness fad).Not long after that he bought in a ZX80, then a ZX81, then a Speccy. We also had BBC Bs at school from about 1983 onwards, IIRC.
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The pawn shop in town had one of these but it was broken
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I grew up with the C64. Never had a Atari before... but love classics!
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Grew up on this machine in a way. Now older, have a bit of an appreciation for it.
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My dad brought one of these home from work one night. It kept working perfectly until my mid sophomore year in highschool. I still miss playing around with it!😁
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Tunnels of Doom was the game I remembered most. You had to load the game code off of a cassette, and there were several 'mods' that made use of the cartridge for different games. Also liked the hardware sprites in Extended Basic, since you could fire one off in a direction and speed and it would just keep going and wrapping around the screen edges. Made some trippy stuff using those.
I'd like to see if mine still works, but will need to find a screen that accepts composite NTSC input.
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My cousins had one in the 80s, the only one I ever saw in the flesh as it was very rare in the UK. And the only game they had for it was Space Invaders. Because I was much younger than them they'd never actually let me use it myself, I had to sit and watch them use it, even though I had a Spectrum of my own.
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One of these appeared mysteriously at our house. It was 2010, and nobody could remember how it got there. I decided to take it with me in my next move and ended up splicing together a video cable for it. The only cartridge I have is Parsec, and I do have the joysticks, but they are presently non-operational. I'll come back to it after I have spare cash to invest in some form of storage for it
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I had a TI994/A, with the big honkin expansion/floppy drive box. I had A-Maze-ing, Blackjack & Poker, Microsurgeon, Buck Rogers, Pirate Adventure, and more that I can't recall.
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Wow those almost looklike ColorComputer cartridges
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