The Omni from Milton Bradley is a product that straddles 70s and 80s technologies. At it’s core, it’s a game, an electronic quiz machine. However if you examine …
A few people have found the Wikipedia entry for the Omni https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMNI_Entertainment_System and are informing me I was wrong when I said it didn't have an entry. Well I was right at the time I made the video as that Wikipedia Omni page has been created directly as a result of people watching this video…it didn't exist before, but it does now. If you search for 'Techmoan' on Wikipedia you'll also find a few other articles that refer back to some of my videos.
This was very interesting. I never heard of the Omni, but I would of loved it back then, when I was about 10 years old. I was also amazed to see that Phil Colins' on 8 track, because I did not realize they were still recording current albums to this format back then. Thank you for this, it brought a smile to my face.
I just stumbled onto your channel and I immediately subscribed after the first vid. I watch every video to the very end because your outro is so cool. Mesmerizing even. Thank you
Whoaah! It's called the Big Trak! When I was a kid (1990s), grew up in a Eastern Europe, I think I got the toy and some basic programming instructions from some far relative, and I never really even knew anything about it, except for "it was programmable and awesome". I always assumed that it was yet one more Russian gadget (and still had lots of fun). Thank you so much! To learn a toy's name after 30+ years, hah! EDIT: fail! Actually, my unit was a Russian clone, the "Elektronika IM-11", I recognized it by the obstacle-sensor-in-bumper. The original one didn't have it and my did. Eh. Anyways, that was fun to learn a new thing about it!
Holy Crap, the UK gets Wheel, crap show it is, but no Jeopardy!? How can you not have Jeopardy!? Jeopardy! is the greatest show to ever punctuate itself.
A few people have found the Wikipedia entry for the Omni https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMNI_Entertainment_System
and are informing me I was wrong when I said it didn't have an entry. Well I was right at the time I made the video as that Wikipedia Omni page has been created directly as a result of people watching this video…it didn't exist before, but it does now. If you search for 'Techmoan' on Wikipedia you'll also find a few other articles that refer back to some of my videos.
This was very interesting. I never heard of the Omni, but I would of loved it back then, when I was about 10 years old. I was also amazed to see that Phil Colins' on 8 track, because I did not realize they were still recording current albums to this format back then. Thank you for this, it brought a smile to my face.
I just stumbled onto your channel and I immediately subscribed after the first vid. I watch every video to the very end because your outro is so cool. Mesmerizing even. Thank you
I think Vincent Price is the only person that made money on this game
Whoaah! It's called the Big Trak! When I was a kid (1990s), grew up in a Eastern Europe, I think I got the toy and some basic programming instructions from some far relative, and I never really even knew anything about it, except for "it was programmable and awesome". I always assumed that it was yet one more Russian gadget (and still had lots of fun). Thank you so much! To learn a toy's name after 30+ years, hah!
EDIT: fail! Actually, my unit was a Russian clone, the "Elektronika IM-11", I recognized it by the obstacle-sensor-in-bumper. The original one didn't have it and my did. Eh. Anyways, that was fun to learn a new thing about it!
I had that same 8 track player!
4:50 that’s straight out of my nightmares
It sounds like Vincent Price is trying to play the game with you from a busy office.
I had a friend with one of those when I was in high school. The movie game never worked then, either. We just turned it into a drinking game.
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college grad here. You lost me at "quiz machine"
you should let james from cinnemassacre make an angry video game nerd episode on this
I miss the galvanized colourful metal parts you used to find in electro-mechanical devices in the 80's and 90's
Big Trak looks oddly familiar…
Were any of the questions #4- None of the Above? ^^!
17:22 Wow! Wouldn't a drop of it had sufficed? ^^!
Was that the voice of Vincent Price? I think it is.
Did anyone else laugh when he said Assault and pepper? He heard it wrong lol
This is pretty clever… But it was clearly never cool
F-mega!
What's a salt and vattery?
40 Years later -> still impressive
Holy Crap, the UK gets Wheel, crap show it is, but no Jeopardy!? How can you not have Jeopardy!? Jeopardy! is the greatest show to ever punctuate itself.
Highest suicide rate? Yikes, obviously trivia for ages 2-10!
James May cameo
gay
How did I end up on this part of YouTube???
1970s Techmoan is terrifying.
I don't know about you guys, but that old video about the 8track format doesn't seem legit