Hey all! Just a quick correction: It's come to my attention that the photo we used for Wei Yen was incorrectly attributed on the RGDWiki and is not the right person. The image has since been corrected on the wiki. Thanks for watching!
Something interesting to note about the iQue Player: they replaced the 4/8 MB of internal RDRAM, which the N64 used, with more standard, modern RAM by a different vendor. The N64's RAM was notoriously slow which is why the N64 had such laggy games that easily slowed down whenever any amount of visual effects happened. But due to this change in RAM type, the iQue runs WAY faster and with much better frame rate persistence. It runs so fast that in the Ocarina of Time tower collapse the sound actually desyncs!
I was honestly expecting you to mention the Color-TV Game produced by Nintendo in the first generation of video games. It's weird knowing how Nintendo made one of the hundreds of Pong consoles back then.
Absolutely! I took my PO box out of recent descriptions (just because I haven't had the capacity to cover much recently and don't wanna disappoint anyone), but it's still active. Shoot me an email (contact@nintendrew.com) if you need the details! Thanks for watching. 😄
Hey, Drew Crew! BIG NEWS: My game project C.A.R.L. launches TODAY for PC and consoles! Steam ▶ bit.ly/carlsteam Nintendo Switch ▶ bit.ly/carlswitch Xbox ▶ bit.ly/carlxbox PlayStation ▶ bit.ly/carlplaystation Please wishlist the game and share it with your friends if you can! Thank you SO much for your support. 🤗❤ I can't wait to hear what you think of the game!
Enjoy the subtle details in your script writing, saying that the Visteon Dockable Entertainment System "didn't exactly fly off the lot" (instead of shelves).
I own 4 out of 5 of these! I think my fav is easily the IQue player. Such a neat piece of history. I also think this means that by a technicality, you could argue it is the highest quality plug-and play system. I think it's funny that the one I don't own is also the one you said was relatively easy to get (the shonen famicom mini). In fact I'd never even heard of it until this video. Hope to pick one up some day but it's not a high priority for me right now.
I find it funny that the one system you couldn't show from your actual collection is one I've gotten to see and play firsthand at a convention I help at. I didn't realize how fragile it could be, though I think I'm remembering it having issues keeping the game going after a while of just sitting there. Pretty cool otherwise.
3:45 Wow. In all my years of GBA from my youth till now, I never thought that I would be able to see a Visteon GBA actually working. God bless you, Daddy Drew. o7
The NES Sharp Gaming TV would have been bigger in my opinion if it came out a year earlier. As the Game Boy was released that same year in 1989! I love the Controller for the Panasonic Q for the Game Cube I really just want the controller for my Game Cube games! Got something new to hunt for. Thanks Drew!
huh, had never heard of that DVD/TV/GBA combo system! would have definitely been cool for road trips, but that price though, yikes! may have to wishlist CARL and pick it up when I get the chance, it looks fun!
Wow, what are the odds that I was just checking out C.A.R.L., thinking about picking it up, and twenty minutes later I'm watching the first of your videos I've ever seen!?
You should see some of the pre 16-bit console’s controllers from the 70s and 80s. There’s some wacky ones out there. The N64 and Dreamcast controllers are kind of odd too especially compared to GameCube
The GameCube controller just won't die out, either, currently due to a quirk/bug in how the Switch accepts USB controllers. Unfortunately, only a couple of games I know of are fully compatible with the GameCube controller; every other game that doesn't rely on the buttons under the sticks are better off using something that turns the L and R buttons into ZL and ZR respectively.
Y’all NEED to play C.A.R.L.!! It’s a delightful indie title from start to finish. Our review will be up soon but the short version is that the game is G.R.E.A.T. (a Good, Really Exceptional, Amazing Time!)
I love my Panasonic Q...and yep the disk drive was in a billion pieces when I got it along with I had to repar part of the logic board but its fully working now and plays US and JP DVDs now!
WOW, when the Gamecube came out, I went out of my way to get my hands an a panasonic Q. I actually have put (sadly) not that many hours on it, but I do still have it! I guess I didn't realize how limited they were.
I've said this a million times before and I'll say it again here. The Panasonic Q is my favorite video game console of all time. It's a gamecube, with the most janky way to play DVDs they could possibly sell. It's sleek and futuristic, but also bold and show-y. It's also a gamecube, which is one of my favorite systems ever. I hate that it's so rare because while I'd love to own one, I wouldn't trust myself with it either. Such a cool console though.
I knew three of these. And whilst the golden Shonen Jump Famicom Mini isn't that interesting the Car-Laptop-GBA Frankenstein by Visteon is absolutely wild I never heard of it before.
Our first Conversion Van or whatever those awesome yet giant vans were of the 90s, had an NES in it. BUT the car having terrible shocks in it made NES not super playable. Since it was also the original front loader one. THOUGH it was fun to play Mario 3 on that tiny TV in the back row and if you wanted entertainment, you had a tv in the middle row for VHS. That car was great.
There was an american version of the iQue as well, at least in Canada. At the Travelodge hotel in my hometown they had them in the rooms. Never used them much tho, couldn't just rent a game for the night, u had to pay per rental AND by the half hour when playing
Hi Drew, point out a few points related to the iQue here. Mr. Wei Yan, also known as Weiqun Yan (Chinese: 顏維群), helped Nintendo to develop N64 and Gamecube when he was in Scillion Graphics and ATi. Eventually, he created iQue to help Nintendo to expand the market in Mainland China. Most of the handheld console from Nintendo that was sold in China had the prefix "iQue" with them, with the first model being the Gameboy Advance, and the last production model being the new 3DS. iQue once planned to introduce the GameCube and the Wii in Mainland China as iQue box and iQue Wii but eventually scrapped, and there was no prototype that can be found anywhere. The iQue box (Chinese: 神游盒子) was meant to be an improved and diskless model of the Gamecube, where the players can purchase and download the game online or through the iQue Kiosk. And the iQue Wii was meant to be introduced as a "multimedia playback device" as how the Chinese PS2 edition was introduced to work around the ban on the sale and manufacture of game consoles announced around 2000 in Mainland China.
Although not obscure, IMO the way the Switch got launched in mainland China is also interesting. Basically giving how obscure consoles are in China, the way Tencent do it is to target the intermediate market, that wants higher quality games but isn't hardcore enough to import a console. The interesting part is that, both Xbox and PSX basically isn't trying to promote their regional service, but rather rely completely on people knowing that they can use obscure ways to connect to the online service of another region (in order to buy games and DLCs). Meanwhile the Tencent Switch would actually promote their service without offering any way to connect to another region, while allow foreign region cartridges to be used without online services (the only exception is patching) probably as a stepping stone. Basically this means the Tencent Switch is more like a service than a console (kinda like Stadia except there's no cloud render), and wherever this will ended up going, it should be an interesting additon to the gaming history.
Those are some obscure systems, it’s cool to see you cover them! I’ve been watching the channel since several years ago but I can say hi now that I have an account! Great content!!
Hasn't the Panasonic Q become easier to fix with the advent of 3d printers? I've seen videos on RU-vid of people replacing the broken tray with a new 3d printed one.
Awesome! I’ve been looking for a Panasonic Q locally (Bowling Green, KY and Nashville, TN area). It’s definitely hard to find! I wish more were produced. Such a cool system!
FYI for your Visteon GBA automotive combo system issue of not having any controllers I'm pretty sure you can get remanufactured or third party made controllers off of eBay... If not I'm pretty sure you're smart enough to make your own controller considering most of the information is available in the public domain to make one.....
I’m surprised that the 3DS “Starter edition” wasn’t here. It was a standard JP O3DS with online features disabled. Sold in Hong Kong, for some reasons And since it was technically a JP system, it only had Japanese as its display language. Hong Kong does not speak Japanese. It flopped pretty badly.
Am i hearing the C.A.R.L. music in the background of this video? BTW, i bought the game on the switch and it's a lot of fun! A great homage to 16 bit platformers! Nice work!
Among these, I never heard of a Game Boy Advance Portable DVD Player. Wow. Besides that and the Shonen Jump Famicom Mini, I'm aware of these other obscure Nintendo-related gaming products.
I remember you showing off the iQue off in a video before. I remember you saying before it was only in China but I think it was just a photo of it you shewed off as you didn't have one at the time.
Almost everything for the gamecube works with the Panasonic Q, except the Gamecube Player, but only because of the different bottom pattern. But the Lan adapter, SD2SP2, the (special) Gameboy Player and, of course, GC loader work with the Panasonic Q, though I do believe you would lose the functionality of the DVD player if I'm not mistaken
Holy shit that Visteon is amazing, i love that kind of stuff, like the Panasonic DVD player Gamecube? Or the Sega CDX, etc? Hell, even the PSP seemed lightyears ahead of it's time, and I honestly preferred it over PS3.
ive got three of these and can note from experience a few things, the visteon you can replace the controller with a sky gamepad, a satellite game streaming service from the uk, they are cheap and readily available, the only catch is that it has some modified behavior with the buttons and anything needing you to hold b in combination with another button wont work, but otherwise is a perfect replacement, the ique, not a handheld, it still needs an external screen and power supply and the panasonic, time isnt the factor that breaks the drive, its made of very brittle plastic and any small impact can shatter it
just wait till this guy gets a famicom box or a super famicom box (yes they are official nintendo products and they can play multiple famicom or super famicom games, depends if you have the famicom box or the super one)
Had a Panasonic GC that was region 0 I bought in Thailand. I liked the fact I could burn games to DVD and play them. Shame it did not make the trip back to the US since it got lost along with 2 trunks of my stuff thanks to DHL.
Knew about all but the Shounen Jump system. All interesting products in their own way. Though no mention of the SNES TV only the NES one huh. Cool your game launched, quite the project undertaking I bet.
Heh the only thing I have on this list is a Panasonic Q. My friend gave it to me when he got a complete in box one with the Gameboy Player. It is a royal pain to repair. We had to wait 2 years for someone to make replacement rails. And then when I put it back together the tray rubberband broke 😭. It's just a display piece nowadays but I do think it would be worth it to put a GC Loader or Pico boot in it to lessen wear on the tray.
