brief update on the timetop pingpong game - i now have a tv again and from the looks of things its a standard famiclone (although the title screen music is a PCM sample so it might have something else going on). im currently attempting to get batteries into one of the controllers. not sure how to take the cover off, and i'm kinda worried that if i apply too much force in the wrong direction i'll break it. more later!
(also it seems weird to me that timetop released about 5 different variations of this console, each with an identical console and its own game cart and controller - wouldnt it have made more sense to sell the console alone or with one game/controller bundled, then sell extra cart+controller packs separately?)
okay i figured out you just have to lift it up to the point where it feels like its going to snap. biut it won't snap, it'll open. so, the game!
its definitely a famiclone judging from the graphics. i dunno if it'll run standard carts, or if its carts will run in a standard clone - i don't have any fami stuff with me at the moment. but i'll test it when i can.
the game itself is nothing to write home about, i'm not sure if it does any proper motion detection or maps everything to the A button but probably the latter. still, i have to give them credit for innovation - its a motion controlled game console made in 2001, a *long* time before the Wii. So really Nintendo ripped off Timetop. >:0