LGR Oddware - Datel PC Action Replay Cheat System (Patreon)
Published:
2018-11-21 15:00:08
Imported:
2021-03
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Happy almost-Thanksgiving! At least here in the US :)
I'm headed off to enjoy some turkey, family, and friends for the next few days.
But for now I've got an odd little video on an odd little device here. This is the Datel Action Replay for Windows 9x from 1998! It's a device that plugs into the parallel port and runs some trainer software to let you cheat in a small handful of PC games.
And I don't know why, haha. I mean, for consoles these things made sense in the late '90s. But PCs? Typing in cheats were commonplace, dev consoles existed, command line entries were a thing, and free trainer programs were all over the place. Even if you didn't know any of that stuff as a computer gamer, the PC Action Replay still doesn't make much sense considering how few cheats it even supports. Makes for some prime oddware though.
I'm headed off to enjoy some turkey, family, and friends for the next few days.
But for now I've got an odd little video on an odd little device here. This is the Datel Action Replay for Windows 9x from 1998! It's a device that plugs into the parallel port and runs some trainer software to let you cheat in a small handful of PC games.
And I don't know why, haha. I mean, for consoles these things made sense in the late '90s. But PCs? Typing in cheats were commonplace, dev consoles existed, command line entries were a thing, and free trainer programs were all over the place. Even if you didn't know any of that stuff as a computer gamer, the PC Action Replay still doesn't make much sense considering how few cheats it even supports. Makes for some prime oddware though.