👽 BIZARRE Origins of Game Publishers | Fact Hunt | Larry Bundy Jr 

Larry Bundy Jr it's ok we were panicking on why it got deleted :)

Ah that explains it. I was all set and ready to watch only to find it just deleted.

I thought it was a copyright strike. Whew

Are my eyes deceiving me? A HONEST Games Journalist that is willing to admit they made a mistake and own up to it?

How's the book coming along Larry?

[SYNCOM] Thanks for the interesting info!

Wait, how does static electricity make a console glitchy?

PCB traces are designed to carry 3 to 12 volts of electricity. Your average static discharge involves many times more than this, and can/will damage the PCB traces. Today's PCBs will instantly fry and be unusable if they are subjected to ESD, but the ones back then used thicker traces, and some even used outright wires and were more durable, but not immune to ESD. I would surmise that some of these computers were damaged by ESD but yet not damaged enough that it was obvious. Some of the traces could have been weakened/burned/etc by small ESDs, and the computers were released onto the market with damaged circuitry. Sounds plausible. If a PCB/traces/circuitry were damaged by ESD, or made weak, it could make for intermittent transmission of data through those traces, which would lead to a whole slew of problems. For example, if you had, say, a trace that ran from the spacebar to the keyboard controller that was damaged by ESD that transmitted data intermittently, then that means you'd get times where you'd hit the spacebar and nothing happens. Or, sometimes the computer might register spacebar presses when you didn't even touch it.

Moreso than the PCBs, microchips are extremely vulnerable to static electrical discharge, which is why you get those grounding wrist straps for doing home electronics work. Consider how it might be possible to zap holes in the relatively large traces of a circuit board (which actually can generally handle 240 volts easily enough, and heavier duty ones as found in CRT TVs and monitors maybe 20 thousand volts so long as the current is low) or blow out a large discrete transistor with the many tens of kilovolts that a static charge can build up... now think how delicate the microscopic traces and transistors inside a chip are compared to *that*. Build a machine with a few dozen chips in it (besides the CPU, in a machine like the Adam you've got graphics and sound controllers, serial/parallel port buffers and DMA controllers, and at least 8 if not 16+ RAM chips) without paying any attention to preventing static build up at or draining it away from the workstations and you're just asking for trouble even if the PCBs survive OK. A little zap could create latent not-quite-faults in any number of chips, which won't immediately show up in the limited pre-shipping test routine and will only start exhibiting after a few hours of actual use ("burn-in", which is something that more conscientious and expensive manufacturers will do in the factory) in the customers' homes...

[SYNCOM] I want to disclaimer this post by saying that I do, in fact, believe you but I can't help but say "My uncle works for Nintendo..."

Diabeetus

Ehh, Wilford Brimley was busy dealing with Cutman anyway.

Alan Rizkallah It’s The right thing to do.

The final boss would be multiple characters. And they would say to him.. DIE, OR BEAT US!

No, the goal must be to check your blood sugar and check it often to avoid diabeetus

Did you know that already? Or, did you put two and two together at the mention of Lady Ghislaine, like I did just now?

​@@TheRealMattKronik I remember hearing about her father on the news when they talked about her, and then when i heard how he died here, my mind just put two and two together.

also the CEO's daughter was Jeffrey Epstein's pimp

Don’t forget ties to Epstein

Are as solid as their phones?

*Kicks down an entire house with them*

Add Nintendo. Originally producing Japanese playing cards, then when sales went down sold instant rice and founded a cab company, now one of the biggest players in the video game market.

When did news media had such an thing called journalistic integrity?

I quite agree but 'journalistic integrity' and 'news media' in the same sentence?.. Surely not... Hehe.

I guess I'll keep writing and rewriting my articles when I get hoodwinked for the sake of informing people with my integrity. I mean, instead of giving people without journalistic integrity attention you could give it to the people who actively try to listen to their audiences. But I guess that's a fever dream, eh?

@@arhambliss8606 Before the Reagan administration repealed laws that required news channels to give equal air time to opposing views.

@@garfieif8187 I feel like the laws got a little outdated once there stopped being only 3 tv channels and they could start being more focused.

tbr2109 I mean, really Steve? Really?

That was cringey af.

p sure it's fake

I don't believe that one was real to begin with

Its not real

Though Uncle Bob was actually born in modern-day Ukraine.

There's a starman waiting in the sky Your profile picture matches that comment perfectly.

Using like bots I see.

He recently spent an entire video TALKING about Peter Molyneux. I guess he wanted to give the guy a break this time.

Maybe that joke was retired now that there's been a dedicated Molyneux video.

He didn't take a stab at Molyneux AT ALL in the video before the Peter Molyneux one.

Zellers was awesome! They did get a little gross towards the end. When the one near me became a Target I was stoked because I LOVE Target, but it was simply not the same Target they have in the states. I think they ended up apologizing for it. But yo, do you remember the Zellers Restaurant?!

Same here in montreal. target left canada after a few months. They killed zellars for nothing

our zellers became a k mart lol

And darn 2020 was the year the last Zellers closed down.

The only thing Zellers had going for it over Walmart was nostalgia. And most Canadians very much wanted Target like the stores they'd shopped in across the border, but Canadian Target didn't have the same brands or low prices, and its inventory system was a mess so many locations had bare shelves.

aw, bless you sir! :)

I knew about a couple of things from the documentary, but I didn't realize how shrewd the then-owner of Elorg. was. It basically was what my "subtitle" read as it being a "Cold War era tale of..." ehh, you can find it if you're interested; I can't remember all the words at the moment.

This video came first, almost a week earlier in fact, as a this is a re-upload with a few corrections. It's still an interesting coincidence in timing.

aka Atlantis is your fav

There's always that one jackass that feels the need to make this same exact comment every single video.

*FAKE NEWS:* The last time Peter Molyneux had hair, multitasking operating systems had only been invented at MIT and trialled at timesharing systems. You thought it was a dodgy way of selling villas in Puerto Rico and the Algarve when it was actually the precursor to Windows XP. But seriously, check this out! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q07PhW5sCEk.html

last time i saw a comment start with 3 posts like that, i was...about 10 minutes younger actually... ...yea...youtube...

Nightosphere and Baywatch was just starting.

noisyturtle how does it feel to be exactly the type of person your comment is about and not even realize it?

StopDrop&Retro where in the world are you, we gave him a passport, he can come visit.

StopDrop&Retro I have never seen an earlier version of the Honey Monster, now I'm a little bit unsettled XD I thought he was cute and fluffy....!

His stomach is so warm & snug i hope he never shits me out.

Mr blobby is far worse...

Don't be silly, Boris Johnson is probably in bed right now (take that how you want :P).

amc2004uk That makes a lot more sense, given their company name.

I've still got an Amstrad stereo tucked away somewhere, and it's more or less in full working order despite being more than 25 years old, and the same went for an Amstrad era Speccy +2 I had borrowed from a mate who never asked for it back until I accidentally plugged a replacement power supply into it with the wrong polarity and smoked some vital chip... Cheap, tacky, sometimes ill conceived, but he at least made sure the stuff he sold was functional. Returns are expensive things to deal with...

knowing his ties with Israel, probably a Nuclear missile launching console to send their enemies a 40 kiloton party gift.

Another error - Robert Maxwell didn't set Mirrorsoft up, it was already set up when he bought the Mirror Group.

Another mistake, the video game crash of 83 honestly didn't hurt Coleco, their downfall was mostly because of the Adam computer. People always blame the crash because it's easy and a lazy explanation without doing more research

@@TheCrazierz probs didn’t need the snidey comment there my dude.

Kimble Justice already did one.

I prefer Life Half and Eldza.

"Blade Mount" "Field of Battle: 2412" "Gear Metal: Solid" "Space is Dead" "Zarof: Sportmotors"

Marry's God

especially if it is cheaper

I would hesitate from buying Super Mayonnaise Brothers....

Then Target bought most of the old Zellers locations, then closed a year or 2 later, leaving them vacant.

christosvoskresye i didn't know he was a video game critic, outside of barts nightmare

It was just a visual gag. He said "critics", refering to early 80s critcics.

he's reviewed Bebe's Kids and Blue Brothers for the SNES as DVD bonuses but they're on his channel

@ULGROTHA Many years later, he would review both Dragon's Lair games too, to help Don Bluth promote his indiegogo campaign for a Dragon's Lair movie. I'M STILL wondering what became of that project!!!! o-0

Are the Dragon's Lair reviews on RU-vid? Don't think I've seen those before but the Bebe's Kids one was hilarious :)

It's a testament to the scope and range of Larry's videos that so many people enjoy them

Mirrorsoft: The Insanity and Shady Dealings of Robert Maxwell

1888 not 1886. I'm sorry, I had to comment!

There's a lot of that with long enough lived companies, Another example the Peugeot brothers started their business as a maker of salt and pepper shakers around 1810, the company later added push bikes, and finally automobiles. And like Nintendo still produce their earlier products. Though I think big N gave up on the love hotels from memory.

whats creepy about them? :)

There wasn't anything creepy about them. They were a a family department store, and a Canadian tradition for many years. Towards the end though, they did get a bit scruffy as the chain moved towards closure. During their prime they family oriented stores with reasonable prices. Mind you, I'm 57, and can remember when places like zellers were decent places to shop...before all the big box stores like home depot, and walmart came in and destroyed local businesses in many towns and cities in Canada.

I still miss zellars. Even one of them here was still abondoned after 7 years dont know if it still is cause i barely go to that town much let alone that part of town

A previous upload I did for Patreon has :(

good job with the bigotry post what do you have against Jews

what the yellow $

No, seriously, shove the edgelord shit, it's not funny. You could've just answered the question, I was wondering the same thing.

jewtube lol

Robert Maxwell's daughter was an ally of Jeffrey Epstein.

Thanks, I try to make them as brief as possible, anything longer and it would become boring :)

Son Goku Hell yeah.

Jeremy Johnson Dude, no call for that man

Don't kink shame him.

But it is a funny game (wink).

Zellers was one of the biggest brand store here in canada when i was a kid and teen. You couldnt say canada without thinking of zellars

Then Target died less than a year later because they made all the same mistakes.

Makes me sad.

xavier martinez keep your hair on, it's in there.

quentin brandt No, the dick.

Alaska is close to half the size of the entire continental USA, so it's more like a gigantic tumor somehow sticking out of the side of the hat

Dr Megaman Considering they have us the Palins, you are probably right.

NIN10DOXD Considering Hawaii gave us Obama, it should be the asshole of America.

Alaska is closer to 21% contiguous U.S. states not 50%.

Not only that, but they were the entire front for RS in the UK. Even though some of the products in store (particularly blank audio cassettes and rechargeable batteries) were Radio Shack branded, the shop had TANDY on the sign out front... pretty weird. Folded and had most of their locations taken over by the more homegrown Maplin, in the end. Shame. Never again found anywhere to get good quality C120s on the cheap after that.

Yikes, give us a warning before linking a Linkara video please!

Should I want more? I mean, on that particular subject? I'm not sure I see the logical progression here.

You want MORE Tandy madness? Look up Linkara's videos on the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids.

Probably some odd copyright

Mindy Auron I guess you're right?

There was some incorrect infomation in it. so I wanted to get it right for my viewers :D

Larry Bundy Jr glad to know you decided to correct it. Not many would do that. Keep up the good work

One Gaming Cause we teased him for calling Ontario a state, sorry Larry! Still love ya :D

That pretty much explains why most MSX emulators can run Coleco games.

Lone Star yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

Yeah, I knew ColecoVision and the Sega’s SG-1000 had a bunch of overlap, but didn’t know about the relationship to MSX until now.

The only difference between the SG-1000 and the MSX was a about 1kb of memory so a lot of Taiwanese SG-1000 bootlegs were really just MSX carts slapped into a different shell, and put into an adapter which gave it that extra bit of memory.

I knew about where Coleco got their start but I never knew about the Colecovision being an MSX under the hood.

Thanks bud :)

Yikes Department he fixed some incorrect info and reuploaded

AnDanDan target sucks

AnDanDan Sounds like a Canadian KMart.

I know Target blows. Thats why it went out of business here too. And I've never been in a KMart so I can't compare.

It was pretty much just Canadian KMart, but stuck in the late-90s instead of the late-80s. Just as depressing to shop at during their final years however.

I love Target and never had a problem with them

Thank you. That music was hauntingly familiar. Glad someone remembered!

this video was deleted from last week due to a few errors in the information, I though it better to delete the video and fix it, than to give you peeps an incorrect video. Apologies again for keeping you waiting :)

I spotted another error. The Quaker Oats company wasn't founded by Quakers. There are a number of food companies founded by Quakers but Quaker Oats isn't one of them. The founder had read about Quakers in an encyclopedia article and thiught they made a good image. www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1553/is-the-guy-on-the-quaker-oats-box-john-penn/ According to the folks at Quaker Oats, the Quaker Man was registered as a trademark on September 4, 1877 - the first U.S. trademark registered for a breakfast cereal. "The name was chosen when Quaker Mill partner Henry Seymour found an encyclopedia article on Quakers and decided that the qualities described - integrity, honesty, purity - provided an appropriate identity for his company's oat product." Today you don't come across a lot of impure, dishonest oats, but consumers in the late nineteenth century couldn't take such things for granted. To emphasize the purity angle, the original Quaker Man carried a scroll with the word "pure" on it.

Larry you fucked up. That's a picture of Maurice R. Greenberg, former CEO of AIG

Celcius1au It was deleted since it contained some factual errors.

Larry needed to add more factuals errors for WatchMojo.

this video was deleted from last week due to a few errors in the information, I though it better to delete the video and fix it, than to give you peeps an incorrect video. Apologies again for keeping you waiting :)

There was errors or Larry was fighting the monetization bot again.

Ale Titan He fixed a few errors. The original video stated that General Custer died during the civil war and that the Canadian province of Ontario was a State.

Mega If I'm correct there may have been a error in the video that he didn't notice.

Now we have to spend three days doing unrelated tests only to learn that House is correct... and still sneaking meds.

Mega yeah he changed at least one minor thing. In the posting last week when talking about Zellers he said the "state of Ontario". I noticed in this version he changed it to "province of Ontario" which is correct. It's was such a small mistake that myself and some others mentioned in the comments, but obviously he seen it and being the the pro he is actually corrected it this time around.

Scott Mckerral There were actually two he also mentioned that General Custer was killed during the Civil War.

Mr. JH thanks I did not catch that one. I'm Canadian so that's why the Ontario one jumped out at me.