Retro gadget late 80s helped his parents force children to learn

Now, probably, to prohibit child play computer games almost impossible if he had to pick up the computer and console remains mobile. Pick up the phone - will play a classmate at school.

In general, a complete ban on the game - it's bad, but some parents just do not see any other way out, if the child needs to prepare for exams, and favorite child sits for days and nights of the games. Now the PC or console, you can password-protect, or other methods.

But what could I do to parents in the '80s, when the market the most advanced gaming devaysom was NES and SNES? One of the most advanced and unusual solutions was a device Homework First (namely his smudged - in the announcement).

This contraption with Digital Disk lock prevents access to the cartridge slots. Accordingly, the child loses the opportunity to play, although access to the console itself remained.



By the way, even the web Save Publication 90 th year, which describes the advantages this extraordinary device. Price question - about 16 dollars, and spread through the Homework First game store, Walmart and other retailers. Invented Homework First chapter of Safe Care, after he heard that the 14-year-old son of a friend was playing all night instead of preparing for the exams. Correspondingly, the examinations were inundated.

In the short time it has been sold more than 25 thousand of such devices. It is clear that with the popularization of the desktop and the emergence of a new generation of game consoles Homework First disappeared from the market.

By the way, can, who knows - what else antiigrovye device to use? Or is it the one and only gadget?

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/236461/