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The '''[[wikipedia:Watara Supervision|Watara Supervision]]''', also known as the QuickShot Supervision in the UKand as the Travell-Mate in parts of Asia, is a monochrome handheld game console which was introduced in 1992 as a low-cost competitor for Nintendo's [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|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 its TV-Link peripheral, which allowed the console to be linked up connected to a television via a link cable. Games and its games to be played in this way would display in four colorslimited colour, much like Nintendo's a handful of years before Nintendo’s own Super Game Boy add-on for the [[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES]]. A full color TV link was also in It featured very similar capabilities to the worksGame Boy, but because of the Supervision's failure to make with a major impression among gamers much bigger and slightly higher resolution screen. Sadly, it was cancelledmuch blurrier as well, which did not help its sales, along with already hampered by the lack of recognisable titles and the overall poor quality of most of its games which were in development for it. Only It later received a tiny handful minor hardware revision in the form of games were the Magnum Supervision, for which only one exclusive game was developed by third parties and many were developed in Taiwan or Hong Kong, ''Journey to the West''.
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===Comparisons===
 
;Potator
The first Supervision emulator, originally developed for Windows using SDL. Surprisingly old, it was last updated in 2005. The sound emulation is only preliminary and there are a lot of bugs and inaccuracies.
 
;Potator2x
Potator’s first fork was a port to the GP2X handheld, abandoned in 2007. This port would serve as base to all subsequent forks, including the libretro version and the Windows SDL2 version.
 
;Potator (SDL2)
Potator’s return to Windows after a chain of handheld ports is one of the very few emulators to support the Magnum and thus ''Journey to the West''. The UI is very barebones, but the emulation is pretty much flawless. Stopped being updated in 2019.
 
;MAME
Runs relatively fine, but the sound emulation isn’t quite there yet. This is especially bad with ''Classic Casino''’s sampled speech.
 
;Wataroo
A more traditional-looking, fully-featured emulator developed by renowned Atari homebrewer Osman D. after he lost a bet. Like Potator (SDL2), the emulation is pretty spot-on, but despite having really low system requirements, working even under Windows 95, it may chug on less powerful PCs.
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