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Cyrax
05/17/22 2:16:51 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOw2yWMSfk

td;dw

  • Man goes on TV show to impress judges with his new invention, a shittier version of air hockey called Bulletball
  • Judges aren't impressed, asks what he did to accomplish this
  • Man says he sold everything and quit his job for this (26 years in the making)
  • Judges say no
  • Bulletball becomes a meme

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masterpug53
05/17/22 2:18:52 PM
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It's certainly no Cones of Dunshire.

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY
05/17/22 2:21:13 PM
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Talk about throwing your life away, this is really sad.

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MedeaLysistrata
05/17/22 2:22:23 PM
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<_<
*shelves board game*

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DeadBankerDream
05/17/22 2:22:53 PM
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What the fuck is this? It's basically Dragons' Den and Peter Jones is on there, but it seems American and looks like it was filmed in the 1980s.

Also how is it a meme?

Also it's not really a tabletop game when you need a uniquely-designed table to play it.

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E_S_M_Z
05/17/22 2:24:55 PM
#6:


I'm an air hockey fanatic. I will stick to that.

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DrizztLink
05/17/22 2:26:43 PM
#7:


DeadBankerDream posted...
Also it's not really a tabletop game when you need a uniquely-designed table to play it.
The other cowards in the design game are just afraid to grasp all levels of table based gaming.

He'll design his own goddamn chairs if you don't watch your mouth.

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EmbraceOfDeath
05/17/22 2:27:01 PM
#8:


Expected Bulletball.
Got Bulletball.

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RISEofCHRISTIAN
05/17/22 2:27:19 PM
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pft, if he wants an impressive invention, he should check mine out.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/3/AAfMaiAADPbh.jpg

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A_Good_Boy
05/17/22 2:28:35 PM
#10:


It's a shame he wasn't around when Kickstarter was a thing. This dude could have saved himself a lot of money, time, and heartache.

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Hollowshy
05/17/22 2:30:28 PM
#12:


DeadBankerDream posted...
What the fuck is this? It's basically Dragons' Den and Peter Jones is on there, but it seems American and looks like it was filmed in the 1980s.

Also how is it a meme?

Also it's not really a tabletop game when you need a uniquely-designed table to play it.

It's called American Inventor. Basically Shark Tank, if the judges like your product they'll offer money for you to refine it and bring it to the market.

I remember hearing about this poor sap. He never found any success after this stunt, and the only footage out there of people playing it is a small room of senile folk who had nothing better to do, and the creator himself donated the tables therfore making no money. People will say he "made it", but you can't actually buy one of these tables if you tried looking online.

I guess the morale of the story here is always have a plan B.

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Enderknight17
05/17/22 2:30:32 PM
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Lol that game looks dumb as hell.

Would love to see crokinole become more mainstream, though.

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CapnMuffin
05/17/22 2:31:12 PM
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Its like a gore video but for someones dreams. Cant watch it.
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Proto_Spark
05/17/22 2:31:30 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
What the fuck is this? It's basically Dragons' Den and Peter Jones is on there, but it seems American and looks like it was filmed in the 1980s.

Also how is it a meme?

Also it's not really a tabletop game when you need a uniquely-designed table to play it.

Dragons Den was based off of an American show called Shark Tank that was basically the same thing. Though IIRC this was on a similar show called American Inventor.

And for a bit of a happy ending here, Bulletball has actually found some success as a fun (and easy to learn) accessible game for people with disabilities, and was even a game at the "Senior Olympics"

https://www.nchpad.org/778/4147/BulletBall~~~A~Therapeutic~Table~Sport~by~Inclusion~Sports
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berlyman101
05/17/22 2:31:59 PM
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it was an absurdly simple concept and he just never pivoted. many business people have to try dozens of times to get a product off the ground.

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Solution_45
05/17/22 2:32:17 PM
#17:


it did happen tho
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gigageek1500
05/17/22 2:33:07 PM
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This feels exploitative. Only slightly sorry to be that guy.

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Robot2600
05/17/22 2:33:14 PM
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I'd rather play that paper football game.

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A_Good_Boy
05/17/22 2:33:21 PM
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Enderknight17 posted...
Lol that game looks dumb as hell.

Would love to see crokinole become more mainstream, though.
My buddy is a huge crokinole fan and takes it with him whenever he can, creating more crokinole fans wherever he goes. That game's no Bullet Ball but it's really fun.

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TheVipaGTS
05/17/22 2:35:30 PM
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Waitit took him 26 years and trading everything he owned forthat concept? A ball that slides and a table your arms fit in? That took him 26 years? I was playing that game with my cousins as a kid when we wanted to play air hockey and didnt have a table lol.

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Enderknight17
05/17/22 2:35:35 PM
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A_Good_Boy posted...
My buddy is a huge crokinole fan and takes it with him whenever he can, creating more crokinole fans wherever he goes. That game's no Bullet Ball but it's really fun.

Awesome. I play as often as I can. I have a cheaper board but would love to get a better one someday.

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berlyman101
05/17/22 2:35:41 PM
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gigageek1500 posted...
This feels exploitative. Only slightly sorry to be that guy.

He doesn't come off as disabled or anything, just misguided and falling for an extreme case of sunk cost fallacy. it's a good warning.

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Prestoff
05/17/22 2:37:09 PM
#25:


Wow, that hurt a lot. It was funny that this became a meme but it's sad because he put his everything into it and got nothing in return.

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AceMos
05/17/22 2:37:49 PM
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i have a feeling this is fake he was trying to get sympathy

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berlyman101
05/17/22 2:37:59 PM
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Prestoff posted...
Wow, that hurt a lot. It was funny that this became a meme but it's sad because he put his everything into it and got nothing in return.

he truly lived though

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ToPoPO
05/17/22 2:39:52 PM
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Proto_Spark posted...
Dragons Den was based off of an American show called Shark Tank that was basically the same thing. Though IIRC this was on a similar show called American Inventor.

And for a bit of a happy ending here, Bulletball has actually found some success as a fun (and easy to learn) accessible game for people with disabilities, and was even a game at the "Senior Olympics"

https://www.nchpad.org/778/4147/BulletBall~~~A~Therapeutic~Table~Sport~by~Inclusion~Sports
https://youtu.be/Qip9wSaBs98

Dragons' Den came first, not Shark Tank.
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knightmarexx
05/17/22 2:43:13 PM
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Proto_Spark posted...
Dragons Den was based off of an American show called Shark Tank that was basically the same thing. Though IIRC this was on a similar show called American Inventor.

And for a bit of a happy ending here, Bulletball has actually found some success as a fun (and easy to learn) accessible game for people with disabilities, and was even a game at the "Senior Olympics"

https://www.nchpad.org/778/4147/BulletBall~~~A~Therapeutic~Table~Sport~by~Inclusion~Sports
https://youtu.be/Qip9wSaBs98

Correction:
Dragon's Den (2005) predates Shark Tank (2009) by 4 years, and America inventor (2006) by a year.

Dragon's Den is based on Money Tigers which originally aired in 2001, in Japan.

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Proto_Spark
05/17/22 2:46:13 PM
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ToPoPO posted...
Dragons' Den came first, not Shark Tank.

I was wrong, I thought Shark Tank came first. Its not nearly as old as I thought it was (started in 2009?)

Though the bulletball guy was on American Inventor, which would probably have been based off of Dragons Den then sometime in like 2006-7 when this guy was on.
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DeadBankerDream
05/17/22 2:53:24 PM
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But why does it look like it was taped in the 80s?

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Sayoria
05/17/22 2:54:28 PM
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The biggest flaw in his .... 'invention' is that he instantly broke it down in the description. He was using a cat's toy to play this. There's no board, there's no pieces. This game is literally just batting a ball left and right. You could go to the store, buy a golf ball and play this. What makes it that you need to buy this game's balls in general to play it? Nothing.

It's insane to blow away 26 years on something anyone can play without buying your product.

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jon davis
05/17/22 2:55:16 PM
#33:


It's certainly not a patch on Shove Piggy Shove

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berlyman101
05/17/22 2:56:26 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
But why does it look like it was taped in the 80s?

there were a lot of dark tones and wood in the 90s and 2000s business aesthetic and recordings easily lost quality when transferred.

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Darkprince35
05/17/22 3:02:32 PM
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Lmao,

mah point!
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dj1200
05/17/22 3:05:21 PM
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that sucks

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CRON
05/17/22 3:08:38 PM
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The story has a happy ending. He ended up profiting off Bulletball and a lot of retirement homes actually incorporated them into their recreational activities.

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Darkprince35
05/17/22 3:10:02 PM
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i found an edited video and I cant stop crying laughing at mah point

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Turtlemayor333
05/17/22 3:12:56 PM
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This guy was a few years early

People would have crowd funded this in the social media era

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berlyman101
05/17/22 3:19:02 PM
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Darkprince35 posted...
i found an edited video and I cant stop crying laughing at mah point

post that shit

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E_S_M_Z
05/17/22 3:20:20 PM
#43:


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


Look man, you take what you can get, lol

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Darkprince35
05/17/22 4:25:46 PM
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WhereIsMegaMan
05/17/22 10:10:10 PM
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He said that shit had the potential to be an olympic sport? LOL

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AmishDoinks420
05/17/22 10:14:08 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Laughing my ass fucking off?

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chrono625
05/17/22 10:38:09 PM
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I cant imagine putting 26 years of your life, all your worldly possessions, your marriage and money into something as simplistic as this.

you could contract a carpenter to fabricate the table for $1,000 at a very high estimate.

there has to be more to this.

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Proto_Spark
05/17/22 10:41:52 PM
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chrono625 posted...
I cant imagine putting 26 years of your life, all your worldly possessions, your marriage and money into something as simplistic as this.

you could contract a carpenter to fabricate the table for $1,000 at a very high estimate.

there has to be more to this.

People can get really big tunnel vision on things like this, especially if it gets like, little bits of success (like being popular among disabled or elderly people for being accessible) to basically convince you to not give up hope - especially when you've been at it a long time and it starts being a sunk cost thing. You can't just give up after you've put so much effort into it.
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chrono625
05/17/22 10:46:03 PM
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Proto_Spark posted...
People can get really big tunnel vision on things like this, especially if it gets like, little bits of success (like being popular among disabled or elderly people for being accessible) to basically convince you to not give up hope - especially when you've been at it a long time and it starts being a sunk cost thing. You can't just give up after you've put so much effort into it.

he didnt get a sniff of success till apparently after this show and it wound up being in group homes and senior citizen homes. I mean, youre correct that it happens. But man, to end your caree and life for a round table with two curved walls is crazy.

and this guy at face value seemed like a somewhat intelligent man.

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