another unsolicited technical note: vacuum fluorescent displays, much light fluorescent lights, internally generate light in the near ultra-violet which is then converted to green by the fluorescent material. A decent amount of the ultra-violet light light escapes unmolested by the phosphor, however, and can pass the blue filter on cmos detectors and CCD's, thus the blue color in recording, but green when viewed with eyeballs.
***** I think the point was it was that it recorded more blue than it was supposed to. Much as I like watching ashens videos, Im not going to watch the whole thing again to fact check this though.
***** I think he has probably more than rudimentary video editing skills and equipment. It would probably be insulting to say he at least bother to color correct for whatever lighting he uses. Most non-extremely-expensive studio lighting doesnt show up white on non-extremely-expensive cameras. (caution, contents of comment may contain partial or complete factual or logical errors)
***** It would be insulting to insinuate that he doesnt :P I maybe should have made that more clear. He talks about color correcting all the time in his videos.
I used to own a Super Kong and I loved it. My sister lent it to a cousin without my permission who lived miles away and so I didn't get it back for well over a year. When I did get it back my cousin had managed to blow vacuum fluorescent display, making it a useless, unplayable beeping piece of rubbish. My aunt tried to compensate for it by giving me my cousin's Simon machine, you know, one of those rubbish round things with four different coloured flashing buttons. I was gutted.
I hope many different kids of shit were beaten out of the guy shortly thereafter. Cause yeah, I've never even owned Simon and I can pretty much tell it'd be inadequate compensation.
Takahashi Yuuki Actually Vacuum Fluorescent Displays are nice, bright and accurate. (often used in audio equipment at the time) While I'd prefer actual "needle" meters on recorders, VFDs stomp same period LED meters. IDK if it's the best choice for battery operated equipment, as they use way more power than LED.
Stuart mate, I could watch you review postage stamps and would still laugh until my spleen burst. Which reminds me, I really should go get that seen to..
Not really. Astro Wars worked well enough, but the other two where no real step up up from popstations. And these where made with some attempt at quality, not the stamp-out cheapness of the poppies which are no more 'modern' than the features here.
AgentTasmania Thats because 30 years ago the technology was less advanced, it was very hard to make something like that... it was top of the edge of game technology... nowadays people can even make these things themselves and still some popstation games are worse than those of 30 years ago when it was very hard to make something like that
Your channel is the only channel where I don't skip any of your intros. I love them. I love the way you say hello. It puts me in a good mood. Thank you for being you, Ashens!
This is the most clever April Fools' joke I've ever seen. Subverting our expectations of a joke video by just posting a regular video. This just goes to show Stuart's brilliance as a youtube chessmaster. His cunning is of the highest caliber.
Seeing the arms flying everywhere in the Boxing game reminds me of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or Hokuto no Ken a bit. ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORAAAAAAAAH Astro Wars looks damn brilliant for an early portable game. Cool screen, nice color visuals, and it's designed like a piece of high-tech science equipment or something. Super Kong looks a bit neato. Well, Super Kong himself, the game looks a bit eh.
***** I think the Super Kong game is made to be played at an angle. You'll notice that the ladders align with the floors when you play with the screen tilted (as if it was laying flat and you were viewing it at ~45 degree angle. I'm guessing Mode A was used for the power adapter, and that's why it didn't work?
Galaga, Frogger, and Dig Dug are my favorites. 🥰 I loved Namco Museum PS2 growing up, we also had a plug n' play of Frogger. 😊🐸💖 Please have a wonderful day. 😻
The Astro Wars cabinet was released in the states under the name Galaxy II(if there was a Galaxy I, I have no clue.) Ah, both the joyous and painful memories associated with the one my mom gave when I was a kid. The joyful because it was a fun system for an 8-year-old not allowed to have a Game Boy, who actually managed to get 9999 points and beat the game, which his mom never did in all her years of playing the game. ...And the painful memories of accidentally crushing the machine and having a mom who's still angry at me to this day about it...
Used to have Scramble made my Grandstand, used to love playing that thing.... memories... coming back..... oh the joys of childhood and not knowing about this future life of having to work and pay bills and be responsible
A Cylon's Minge. Not an image I'm going to forget for a while, one for the terribleness of a robot minge, and two for the sheer bliss that would be Tricia Helfer's.
I lost it at "maybe we're both bees and fighting in a bonnet." I love the reference. I can always rely on Ashens for my healthy dose of sarcasm and dry humo[u]r. And a bit of tat induced rage from time to time.
Galaxian predates Galaga...because Galaga is the sequel to Galaxian. In fact, near as I can tell, Astro Wars/Super Galaxian predates the arcade release of Galaga by just a couple of months.
The Bambino Boxing commercial IS on RU-vid Turns out, their slogan was: "Beat a Bambino, and you've beaten the best!" I don't think the first half of that slogan would go over very well in Europe
I have Astro Wars! I'm 25, but it used to be my dad's and my grandad gave it to me. I had a little wave of nostalgia hearing those horrible noises it made in the video.
I got an Astro wars console circa '81. Loved it. It was a portable games console which coincidentally I wasn't allowed to take out of the house.. Work than one out. Preferred this to our Intellivision. My dad worked for Radio Rentals. And they had a deal with Mattell. Great video again. Batteries were expensive then, so you had to use the mains.
The Astro Wars game did a decent job of recreating the various levels of the arcade game Moon Cresta in LED form. I was surprised to see those four ships/aliens at the top come to life, as well as the docking procedure. Pretty clever and playable for the technology! And you just have to love that "Air Traffic Control" case. Too cool.
"to be honest their is no skill at all and you're just mashing buttons in the hope of winning. Ya' know, like Tekken!" *grabs popcorn* *scrolls down to comment section*
Sometimes I wonder about those Pop stations. Sure they are made in China on the cheap but when you should have access to 30 year old technology I don't really know what your excuse is. I am also including the Tiger Electronics here as the Game.com was mezmerizing in how it avoided being playable in almost every sense.
Astro Wars. I estimate About 150 hours of my precious childhood was spent on that little plastic box. And I loved almost every second of it. Fantastic colour. Waves of aliens that reminded you of the Arcade "Galaxian". The Bonus Games. The sound. A really fantastic game. I know it would have cost my parents a lot of money back in...1981?
HARBOUR GAMING Still better than your mum. (I just feel like being unreasonable today. Please humor me and don't reply with an essay describing in painful detail why all triple A games are shit.) Lot's of love From Smeg
We love you too, Doctor Ashen. -sigh- the 80's. I don't know whether to feel sad or glad that I was born at the tail end, thus being too young to actually remember what life was like back then.
When he said Tekken, I found it strange because as a fan of both, I have to say SoulCalibur seems more notorious for button mashing. If any of you are on the Steam community, you should try Divekick (very cheap!) as it's a fighting game where button mashing DOESN'T help you at all!
