thumb|150px|right|The Supervision model released without the tilting screen
The Watara Supervision, also known as the QuickShot Supervision in the UK, is a monochrome handheld game console, originating from Asia, and introduced in 1992 as a cut-price competitor for Nintendo's Game Boy. It came packaged with a game called Crystball, which is similar to Breakout. One unique feature of the Supervision was that it could be linked up to a television via an official accessory. Games played in this way would display in four colors, much like Nintendo's Super Game Boy add-on for the SNES. Games for the Supervision were also much cheaper than Game Boy games,
- Quickshot Supervision (QS-800): sold in the UK, Greece by the well-known joystick brand. Tiltable screen configuration.
- Hartung Supervision (SV-100): sold in Germany and Netherlands.
- 泰可BOY (Tiger Boy): sold in Taiwan and Hong Kong by Tai-Kerr Trading Co.
- Hypervision Hyberboy SW: another version sold in Argentina, marketed by Honson Games.
In the mid 1990s, the Supervision was once offered as a final prize on the television game show Legends of the Hidden Temple (as well as Masters of the Maze). It was also offered as a prize on the premiere of the similarly short-lived The New Price is Right in 1994.
Quickshot's UK version of the Supervision was heavily featured for a time on ITV's gaming show Bad Influence! and it was advertised that fifty games were released by November 1992. The Supervision's game library was criticized for being 'too simplistic' compared to that of other consoles, which outweighed the value of their budget price, which ranged from US$8.95 to US$14.95 per game. Soon after the Supervision's release, the Game Boy Basic packaging option was announced, which made the Game Boy more affordable, costing only ten dollars more than the Supervision; this undermined the Supervision's 'budget' marketing strategy. A peripheral that would add color support to games was planned for release in the latter half of 1993, but was never released. More third-party games were planned for release for the system in 1993 but never materialized, including movie licences such as Rambo and Terminator.
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Preservation
Like many consoles, the Watara Supervision has lived on through emulation (see MESS). Cowering's Good Tools includes a tool called GoodSV, which catalogues 69 Supervision games as of version 3.27.
References
External links
- Syd Bolton's "World's First Supervision Page"
- Supervision: handheld of the less fortunate
- Watara rewritable multigame cartridge