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The QuickShot version differed from the original Watara format by having the console body split into two parts enabling the screen to be tilted in relation to the control section. In Taiwan and Hong Kong, it was released as the 泰可BOY (Tiger Boy). To keep their costs down, Watara farmed out the international marketing and distribution to third parties leading to various versions including the QuickShot Supervision, Travell Mate, Hartung SV-100, and Electrolab in Argentina, under two different models: the Supervision (in a form factor resembling Nintendo's Game Boy) and the Hipervision. It was also bundled with headphones, batteries, and a Breakout clone titled Crystball. Games for the Supervision were also much cheaper than Game Boy games, and advertisements emphasized this price difference, with one British ad for the Supervision calling it 'the affordable hand-held games machine'. The Watara Supervision's main marketing point was its low price the Supervision was US$49.95 in 1992 while the Game Boy was US$89.99. Up against Nintendo's list of popular franchises ( Zelda, Mario, Metroid) and those of its third parties ( Castlevania, Mega Man) - all of which eventually surfaced on the Game Boy - the Supervision's games were of little interest to most. Only a tiny handful of games were developed by third parties, including Sachen and the British developer B.I.T.S. Yet another problem was that most of the games that were available were developed in Taiwan or Hong Kong, meaning that fans of big-name Western and Japanese developers were underwhelmed by the apparent lack of support from these companies.

Reasons commonly cited are the poor quality screen which was prone to blurring and made following the action difficult, a general lack of games and the simplistic nature of those that were released. Though the machine garnered some attention at launch (mainly due to the low price for the machine and its games, which many felt might enable it to make inroads into Nintendo's market share) it was ultimately unsuccessful in unseating the Game Boy from its position as the world's most popular handheld.

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A full color TV link was also in the works, but because of the Supervision's failure to make a major impression among gamers it was cancelled, along with the games which were in development for it. Games played in this way would display in four colors, much like Nintendo's Super Game Boy add-on for the SNES. One unique feature of the Supervision was that it could be linked up to a television via a link cable. It came packaged with a game called Crystball, which is similar to Breakout. 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. The Watara Supervision with tilting screenġ60×160 pixel resolution, 4 shades of grey

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