its when Dallas starts and your parents sit down to watch their favourite TV show and you bust into the living room with your Tomy Turbo Dashboard and drive then NUTS with that inferno SOUND XD
It's one of those classic situation where you can't understand it unless you experienced it as a child: toy/game shit-lame, but then the power of imagination more than makes up for the lack of entertaining value per se. Now, needless to say, you have everything served to you with ultra-detailed graphics and shit, and you are not required to use your imagination anymore. We are rich, but we were doing better when we were poor.
Tonio Miklo Totally agree. All I needed was the cover of a 99p Speccy game to fire my imagination. I could spend days just looking at the art work alone!
Nostalgia Nerd Hey man! Great video! I actually have a black Corvette Dashboard lying around somewhere in my Grandma's house. Not sure of the condition, but are they worth quite a bit now? Cheers!
Mid 80's, infant school me had a go on something completely identical to the Tomy Turbo on display in a department store. But, I swear, it had collision detection which stalled you car if you collided with another, complete with crashing sound, plus faux Outrun style choices of route to take, which somehow kind of warped the scrolling to give the convincing illusion that you actually made a turn to either the left or right. Maybe there was even the option to continue straight, can't recall. I was taken with it. Some time later, I got one for Christmas. Ah, but it wasn't one of whatever that thing was. It was the real Tomy Turbo. But it seemed like the same one, when I opened it. After a short while of playing on it, I started to get a little disenchanted. There was no point to it, unlike the one I'd remembered. I still loved it for what it was, but I never got over the fact that it didn't have any gameplay element. But it leaves me wondering, what the hell was that crazy cool Tomy Turbo on steroids clone I played in that store? Because I cannot find out what the damned thing was, but it was the coolest thing.
Look at this ... I am turning 40 today, and i am watching a video about a game i received for my 10th birthday ... although i had the one that had a "mercedes" front. I don't remember playing very much with, but the reason for that could very well be that awful ""engine" noise and my parents tolerance for this ... haha :) Thank you for the memories!
Yup, just at the back of my old house there was what i can only describe as a banking area with a dirt track and a huge pylon stuck in the middle (probably made me radioactive!) and surrounded by crab apple trees and shrubbery and on one walk around found this beast...thought it was a bit shite even then xD
Tomy still wins. The road randomly moved side to side, had collision detection, the fuel ran out and you had to reset it and you moved the car. It was closer to an actual game.
@@Octamed then you must have a more expensive one then I have ever seen because all off the ones I have ever seen functioned exactly like these. Screen location is the only difference. With these are better in that way.
@@BuddhaAtheist29 Just look at a Turbo Tomy video. These are clones of that so they're not going to have the same feature set. Tomy even had a highscore. The trip meter only progressed if you weren't running into the road edge, so you see how far you can get on a tank of fuel.
I do like the slight tire squeal on the playmates one. I can't tell if it's an actual sound or if it's just the old mechanism engaging, but I still like it!
I think I had *BOTH* of these. I thought i had the Tomy one but I do vaguely remember the lights and "dash" on the Playmates one and the Highway Patrol one. My poor parents suffered many car trips with these things. These went with me *EVERYWHERE* when I was a very small girl.
That's the sound of batteries being sucked dry. I bet they lasted like 1,5 minutes. Those things where energy-hogs. Much like the Atari Lynx (slightly O.T. here).
I actually just bought the "Learn To Drive?!" variant which pretty much the same as the cop car version except the headlights do work great and it's red! The version I originally had as a kid back in 1986 was a "Grand Prix Rennsimulator!!" which was a Chinese knock off of these two but it had a left side mirror as well, broke down within a month of use....
"my name is Corvette the frog", "it's a police car, so it get away with killing civilians", and what a horn-sound, "raging-car-inferno-disco" ...hahaha
Wow, talk about weird. I was just yesterday thinking about the Corvette Dash that I had; couldn't remember the name of it, though. Thanks for sharing, that takes me back!
I had the Tomy one, but don't recall spending much time with it; the Speccy was around at the same time. 'nuf said. Other manufacturers came up with a kind of scaled down version of this that would fit in a package the size of a 'Game and watch'. A disc track with obstacles attached to it would rotate around a fixed vehicle and you had to flip a slider back and forth to navigate around them. If you hit the obstacles the mechanism would stop. To add to the challenge, only a small section of the track was visible through a viewing window so you couldn't see when the next obstacle was approaching or which side of the road it was on until it was right on top of you. Btw Mr Nerd, is that one of those retro repro Casio watches you've been wearing in the last few videos? I've seen those on eBay. Identical to the originals and available in every colour of the rainbow. If I could insert a shade-wearing smiley here I'd do it.
dreamkatcha Really? That sounds awesome, I NEED to get one of those watches. Yeah, not sure why I played these so much. But I did. I'm talking hours on end. My mind must have been numbed to any form of external stimuli. Yes :D Indeed, it is a retro casio watch. Think I got it from Amazon for about £15. It will suffice until I insert new batteries in my Mario game watch XD
Nostalgia Nerd Oh no, the version I'm thinking of wasn't built into a watch. I may be getting mixed up, but I thought Game and Watch devices were the size of a large match box, though not as deep, and designed to be played like a very early precursor to the Game Gear. Maybe that term was just used for the watch games themselves? Cramming all that mechanical gubbins into a watch would be a tall order even today I'd imagine. What got me thinking about them was seeing a Spanish variation at a car boot sale at the weekend. I would have picked it up if it hadn't been so battered... or maybe if I hadn't been so desperate to get away from all the cancer sticks being wafted in my face at the time. You take your life in your hands at these open air events. It was the Tomy, spade-shaped, periscope 3D games that really gripped me a few years later. I had the burgundy space ship one and my brother had the white (tank?) version. There was something mesmerizing about the atmosphere and sense of immersion those neon vectors conjured up. You could be sitting in the back seat of the family car on a journey to the seaside, yet at the same time, be saving the world from the emperor of planet Zog.
4:05 Hahaha yes! It's true, it does look like frog, just like the real one! Now I know I'm not the only one who thinks that. Still love that car though.
Well, I have to disagree with you this time, I had the Tomy one and I like it better :) From memory the tomy one could run out of fuel and had some basic collision detection which would stop the odometer from going up. I still play my Tomytronic 3d game, did you have one?
Gary James Basic collision detection? Really, are you suurreeee? I wasn't aware of that, but if it did, then thumbs up! No, I don't have a Tomytronic! Really want to get hold of one though! I think I played one once, in the playground, but never again :'(
Nostalgia Nerd Yeah the backlight even used to flicker when you were crashing into something, not sure how it worked mind. I know one thing they all probably had in common., the sound, it must have drove our parents mad!
Evil666Shady I found "Marx toys Command drive dirt bike" (Set the timer and race around obstacles on the continuous rolling terrain)(Source: Plaidstallions)
I disassembled one of these when I was 5 years old. It was the first thing I ever took apart, and I even managed to reassemble it, with only a couple screws left over. It still worked, at that!
I am a millennial and even I seen this because during daycare which my grandmother ran she had these for the us which I would use all the time till the throttle broke
I regret letting my mum throw mine away now or most likely give it to a charity shop. It was a Tomy one. It looks so simple now, but I loved it. I got it when I was around 5/6. I love how toys are gendered. I think that it was marketed at boys. It seemed more exciting than a Barbie.
I had (probably still have) the Tomy Turbo Dashboard. Honestly, the orignal looks a lot better to me. You could move the car, there were more "instruments" on the dashboard.
I took my test in one of these bad boys. My instructor failed me obviously when I turned up on test day with the front end of police car, no wheels 50 feet of road and still managing to break the sound barrier on a pedestrian crossing.
I was given a police car one. It actually had an activate-able siren with red and blues. Wasn’t allowed to persue speeders after dad got home from work, haha! Supplemented with imagination; I truly miss these toys or whatever sort I used to have.
I also believe this is better than the turbo-dashboard... and I believe and think, that you look better w/o a beard (OK... "nostalgic", but, no need to be "prehistoric-nostalgic")
There is a scene in the original 70's version of 'the dawn of the dead' movie in which a character is playing a full sized, sit down, arcade version of this, does anyone know what it was callled? I'm sure it was formula one style cars.
Growing up in Poland in the 80s if some kid had this, it was by a special hookup not available to commoners or from a rich relative in America. (Every one in America appeared rich, how else could they afford to send us all that Juicy Fruit and Big Red gum?)
its when Dallas starts and your parents sit down to watch their favourite TV show and you bust into the living room with your Tomy Turbo Dashboard and drive then NUTS with that inferno SOUND XD
It's one of those classic situation where you can't understand it unless you experienced it as a child: toy/game shit-lame, but then the power of imagination more than makes up for the lack of entertaining value per se. Now, needless to say, you have everything served to you with ultra-detailed graphics and shit, and you are not required to use your imagination anymore. We are rich, but we were doing better when we were poor.
Tonio Miklo Totally agree. All I needed was the cover of a 99p Speccy game to fire my imagination. I could spend days just looking at the art work alone!
Nostalgia Nerd Hey man! Great video! I actually have a black Corvette Dashboard lying around somewhere in my Grandma's house. Not sure of the condition, but are they worth quite a bit now?
Cheers!
Yeah, I think they got for about £50. Which is pretty steep (BUT THEY'RE WORTH IT GOD DAMN IT) XD
Tonio Miklo exactly, this was my favorite toy.
You nailed it on the head there mate I totally agree I had one of these I couldn't get off it off.
Mid 80's, infant school me had a go on something completely identical to the Tomy Turbo on display in a department store. But, I swear, it had collision detection which stalled you car if you collided with another, complete with crashing sound, plus faux Outrun style choices of route to take, which somehow kind of warped the scrolling to give the convincing illusion that you actually made a turn to either the left or right. Maybe there was even the option to continue straight, can't recall. I was taken with it. Some time later, I got one for Christmas. Ah, but it wasn't one of whatever that thing was. It was the real Tomy Turbo. But it seemed like the same one, when I opened it. After a short while of playing on it, I started to get a little disenchanted. There was no point to it, unlike the one I'd remembered. I still loved it for what it was, but I never got over the fact that it didn't have any gameplay element. But it leaves me wondering, what the hell was that crazy cool Tomy Turbo on steroids clone I played in that store? Because I cannot find out what the damned thing was, but it was the coolest thing.
Tomy Racing Cockpit has a score counter for the time you stay on the road.
Look at this ... I am turning 40 today, and i am watching a video about a game i received for my 10th birthday ... although i had the one that had a "mercedes" front. I don't remember playing very much with, but the reason for that could very well be that awful ""engine" noise and my parents tolerance for this ... haha :) Thank you for the memories!
Ahh yes, I had a Mercedes one too! It was a police car with lights and sirene. Marvellous!
I had one of these...which I found in a bush when i was about 5. I kid you not!
+madcapoperator hahahaha. A bush??!!! XD
Yup, just at the back of my old house there was what i can only describe as a banking area with a dirt track and a huge pylon stuck in the middle (probably made me radioactive!) and surrounded by crab apple trees and shrubbery and on one walk around found this beast...thought it was a bit shite even then xD
Nice! They fetch a good price today!
Wish I still had it then...Have no idea what happened to it :'(
Could find all sorts of things in a bush back in the day.
Tomy still wins. The road randomly moved side to side, had collision detection, the fuel ran out and you had to reset it and you moved the car. It was closer to an actual game.
It did none of those things
@@BuddhaAtheist29 I've got one and took it apart to fix it.
@@Octamed then you must have a more expensive one then I have ever seen because all off the ones I have ever seen functioned exactly like these. Screen location is the only difference. With these are better in that way.
@@BuddhaAtheist29 Just look at a Turbo Tomy video. These are clones of that so they're not going to have the same feature set. Tomy even had a highscore. The trip meter only progressed if you weren't running into the road edge, so you see how far you can get on a tank of fuel.
@@Octamed I have, maybe we are talking about different versions or something, I don't know.
I do like the slight tire squeal on the playmates one. I can't tell if it's an actual sound or if it's just the old mechanism engaging, but I still like it!
Haha 4:02 - "Hello! My name's Corvette the frog. What the fuck are you doing?"
FUCKING. GENIUS!!!
The 80s was a different time I would spend 2 3 hours a day on one of these things lol good old days
I think I had *BOTH* of these. I thought i had the Tomy one but I do vaguely remember the lights and "dash" on the Playmates one and the Highway Patrol one. My poor parents suffered many car trips with these things. These went with me *EVERYWHERE* when I was a very small girl.
That's the sound of batteries being sucked dry. I bet they lasted like 1,5 minutes. Those things where energy-hogs. Much like the Atari Lynx (slightly O.T. here).
Thank you SO MUCH for making this video! That Corvette thing was my favorite toy of all time growing up.
I actually just bought the "Learn To Drive?!" variant which pretty much the same as the cop car version except the headlights do work great and it's red! The version I originally had as a kid back in 1986 was a "Grand Prix Rennsimulator!!" which was a Chinese knock off of these two but it had a left side mirror as well, broke down within a month of use....
pretty sure i had the tomy one as a kid, need to get it again. this looks cool too :)
"my name is Corvette the frog", "it's a police car, so it get away with killing civilians",
and what a horn-sound, "raging-car-inferno-disco" ...hahaha
I've seen a few videos of the Tomy Turbo and was like "man... it's familiar... but not what I had as a kid." This is it. Thanks!
I wish the person who thought of making this creation, lives every moment with the joy that every child felt from this game.
Wow, talk about weird. I was just yesterday thinking about the Corvette Dash that I had; couldn't remember the name of it, though. Thanks for sharing, that takes me back!
It's the kind of toy you'd have bought for a kid whose parents you hate.
I had the Playmates one. For many years it was my "DeLorean"--the headlights didn't work, but the switch was the "flight mode."
I loved it!
Thank you for this thorough revisit of a great toy.
I had a Tomy Turbo as a kid, good memories of my childhood
This is why I think using a MAME Arcade Raspberry Pi conversion for Highway Patrol Inspection into a real Cisco Heat arcade game.
Had this when I was a kid. Just bought one as an adult. Very broken. Pretty simple how it all works inside. Hopefully u can get it running.
Corvette
I had the Tomy one, but don't recall spending much time with it; the Speccy was around at the same time. 'nuf said.
Other manufacturers came up with a kind of scaled down version of this that would fit in a package the size of a 'Game and watch'. A disc track with obstacles attached to it would rotate around a fixed vehicle and you had to flip a slider back and forth to navigate around them. If you hit the obstacles the mechanism would stop.
To add to the challenge, only a small section of the track was visible through a viewing window so you couldn't see when the next obstacle was approaching or which side of the road it was on until it was right on top of you.
Btw Mr Nerd, is that one of those retro repro Casio watches you've been wearing in the last few videos? I've seen those on eBay. Identical to the originals and available in every colour of the rainbow. If I could insert a shade-wearing smiley here I'd do it.
dreamkatcha Really? That sounds awesome, I NEED to get one of those watches.
Yeah, not sure why I played these so much. But I did. I'm talking hours on end. My mind must have been numbed to any form of external stimuli.
Yes :D Indeed, it is a retro casio watch. Think I got it from Amazon for about £15. It will suffice until I insert new batteries in my Mario game watch XD
Nostalgia Nerd Oh no, the version I'm thinking of wasn't built into a watch. I may be getting mixed up, but I thought Game and Watch devices were the size of a large match box, though not as deep, and designed to be played like a very early precursor to the Game Gear. Maybe that term was just used for the watch games themselves?
Cramming all that mechanical gubbins into a watch would be a tall order even today I'd imagine.
What got me thinking about them was seeing a Spanish variation at a car boot sale at the weekend. I would have picked it up if it hadn't been so battered... or maybe if I hadn't been so desperate to get away from all the cancer sticks being wafted in my face at the time. You take your life in your hands at these open air events.
It was the Tomy, spade-shaped, periscope 3D games that really gripped me a few years later. I had the burgundy space ship one and my brother had the white (tank?) version. There was something mesmerizing about the atmosphere and sense of immersion those neon vectors conjured up. You could be sitting in the back seat of the family car on a journey to the seaside, yet at the same time, be saving the world from the emperor of planet Zog.
had the flip up lights one, best toy ever!!!
4:05 Hahaha yes! It's true, it does look like frog, just like the real one! Now I know I'm not the only one who thinks that. Still love that car though.
I had this for my Birthday Man it was Noisy
Duracell and Energizer batteries have plastic film label making them thicker than a typical batteries from Asia.
I know I am truly a Nerd Now!!! I had this as a baby Nerd...lmfao Thanx Brother over da Pond¡¡¡
I had that corvette one as a kid. I remember it well.
i had the red one as a child, and had no idea what it was actually called, nor seen one online EVER before this video!
Ahhh,.. the playmate corvette is exactly the one I had as a kid.
Great Vid, think i had the Corvette one, I would just give it the edge due to the lights and other features over the police one.
Chris Dean Agreed. I think they're both better than the "original" Tomy Turbo Dashboard. The screen on that thing was tiny!
wow clean shaved back then Giggles i forgot you made this video tell youtube Recommend it me in 2021
So you thought those Tiger LCD “ dashboard” games We’re As cheap and lazy as it could get? Nope! I remember these things sold at the local swap meet.
Why is the woman in your profile so ugly?
She looks like a man
satanic hobo Coming from a someone with a Shrek profile pic that calls itself satanic hobo, I’ll take that as a compliment.
I had one of those corvette games. I forgot all about it!
i was really hoping you were going to take them apart
In hind sight, I really should have. Unfortunately I've sold them on, otherwise I'd do it right now!
I can make a vaporwave music video with that repeating scene on the little screen.
That is a very nice idea... I hope, you will also make/add good music on it. Notify me. Greetings.
I used to love these, I had the turnin' turbo by tomy as well as the corvette playmates one !
Well, I have to disagree with you this time, I had the Tomy one and I like it better :) From memory the tomy one could run out of fuel and had some basic collision detection which would stop the odometer from going up.
I still play my Tomytronic 3d game, did you have one?
Gary James Basic collision detection? Really, are you suurreeee? I wasn't aware of that, but if it did, then thumbs up! No, I don't have a Tomytronic! Really want to get hold of one though! I think I played one once, in the playground, but never again :'(
Nostalgia Nerd Yeah the backlight even used to flicker when you were crashing into something, not sure how it worked mind. I know one thing they all probably had in common., the sound, it must have drove our parents mad!
Yes I did mean a mechanical / electronics mechanism, obviously the machine has no software, and yes the miles did stop counting from memory.
Lol these are hilarious. Love old OG tech. They tried anything
I had one like this but a motorcycle but idk where to find it idk if its from tomy but it was so similar to the car tomy one but a motorcycle instead
Evil666Shady I found "Marx toys Command drive dirt bike" (Set the timer and race around obstacles on the continuous rolling terrain)(Source: Plaidstallions)
I loved my playmate corvette dashboard as a toddler
Yes...the first one was the crap I got when i asked for the Tiger outrun game lol.
This brings me back. I had the red one
I am sure I had that Corvette back in the 80s, it was my cousin who gave it to me.
you had or seen one of these if you were an 80s or mid 70s kid
I disassembled one of these when I was 5 years old. It was the first thing I ever took apart, and I even managed to reassemble it, with only a couple screws left over. It still worked, at that!
I am a millennial and even I seen this because during daycare which my grandmother ran she had these for the us which I would use all the time till the throttle broke
I hated those driving things when I was younger.
I love your t-shirt though, I got to get one.
I regret letting my mum throw mine away now or most likely give it to a charity shop. It was a Tomy one. It looks so simple now, but I loved it. I got it when I was around 5/6. I love how toys are gendered. I think that it was marketed at boys. It seemed more exciting than a Barbie.
you can mow the lawn with those things...
I had (probably still have) the Tomy Turbo Dashboard. Honestly, the orignal looks a lot better to me. You could move the car, there were more "instruments" on the dashboard.
I took my test in one of these bad boys.
My instructor failed me obviously when I turned up on test day with the front end of police car, no wheels 50 feet of road and still managing to break the sound barrier on a pedestrian crossing.
That back panel was always impossible to get back on
I had the Tomy original over 30 years ago!
I had one and it still has it's box, amazing
Holy crap. I had one of these!
g'ah, what awful, terrifying noises you '80s kids had to deal with..
Huh somehow i missed these as a kid. Where they in U.S.A.?
I had a motorcycle version when I was a kid. I can't find any info about it. I've no idea what it was called.
Had one in the early 90s that was a little space ship but the same concept.
i had one of these when I was a kid
Anything with pop-up headlights is automatically better
I had one of these as a kid but play it until it broke down good time
I was given a police car one. It actually had an activate-able siren with red and blues. Wasn’t allowed to persue speeders after dad got home from work, haha! Supplemented with imagination; I truly miss these toys or whatever sort I used to have.
Parents that buy techno toy junk for their bratty kids are a global pandemic.
I’m pretty sure I had the Corvette toy or at least something very very similar
I had something like that, back in my childhood.
do you remember the one which needed a vhs tape and had a little car on the dash that moved.
+dannycivic02 NO!? I must investigate!
+Nostalgia Nerd found it, it was called video driver by tyco designed by Sega. Many an hour lost on this one.
Sega Video Driverruclips.net/video/nIyLwo-RLpU/видео.html
My cousin had the police one, I clearly remember that. Surprisingly we played alot of it. I don't know what he did with it
Memories I actually played it
When I was a kid I always wanted to have one of these toys; sadly, I didn't.
You can have it now 🙃
I also believe this is better than the turbo-dashboard...
and I believe and think, that you look better w/o a beard
(OK... "nostalgic", but, no need to be "prehistoric-nostalgic")
C Cells are rare here at my end.
In Brazil I had a clone called hot poster. It was amazing.
Dude, takes a lot of batteries to feed that basterd... But it´s fun as hell
"it's a police car so it's ok to kill civilians" aged pretty poorly here in 2020 :P
Actually, some plastics, ABS in particular, do shrink over decades!
Picked up a perfect condition highway model for $5.99 at goodwill in Wisconsin
It does run better than cyberpunk.
I'm appalled that the Thingamebob song never received the acclaim it deserved.
There is a scene in the original 70's version of 'the dawn of the dead' movie in which a character is playing a full sized, sit down, arcade version of this, does anyone know what it was callled? I'm sure it was formula one style cars.
That was likely Namco F-1 of 1976. It hat a crazy surprising mechanism inside.
ruclips.net/video/i1WSYdn1b8I/видео.html
Growing up in Poland in the 80s if some kid had this, it was by a special hookup not available to commoners or from a rich relative in America. (Every one in America
appeared rich, how else could they afford to send us all that Juicy Fruit and Big Red gum?)
Maybe it's just me? But l need a windows 10 screensaver version of those things ASAP! :)
the display looks like gameplay from Cyberpunk 2077
I still own my corvette dash and box in 2021.
Had the late 1950s or early 1960s model. Massively similar.
wait, where are you? where is that beardo guy?
I thought the pop up headlights was cool and how the screen looked in the dark.
Disappointing childhood simulator
+bigclivedotcom needs to get hold of these....
TUrbo Racing Dashboard, AKA TU.R.D
modern kids r like who the hell is Gordon the gofer?? 😁
i had the corvette though i always wanted the tomy one my friend had that one and i thought it was cooler
I had one, sold it to a guy who collects toys for 400 bucks🙂
I had the playmates version
the Original GTA
Why do you need to toss it around like it was a piece of trash and had no value to you? Is that supposed to look "cool" or what? Handle with care!
i wish i had that