Can I Fix It? Barcode Battler fix, demo and interesting story.

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Another retro repair... 1991 was a great time for video games and also budget handheld devices for us poor people who couldn't afford Gameboys.
I bought this off eBay for £7.99 boxed but no cards or instructions. It was listed as 'doesn't turn on'.
But we can repair it and go one better, get it playing and using a barcode from the most unusual source... my ARM?!
The Barcode Battler was a forerunner to Digimon and Pokemon. If you were lucky enough to be Japanese you could even link it to your Famicom or Super Famicom!
Here's a link to the book I mentioned, Curious Video Game Machines by Lewis Packwood. I'm in no way affiliated with them, I just LOVE this book.
UK:
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Curio...
US:
www.casemateipm.com/978139907...
I'm an absolute novice/noob so please don't ever take any of my videos as instructional, rather as inspiration to tackle your own repairs. If I can do it, you can too, you almost certainly know more!
Thanks for checking out my channel and to all you wonderful people who have subscribed, I am eternally grateful.

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@diyhard666 Месяц назад

2:22 it says please help me. I'm kidnapped in a Japanese toy factory and forced to put stupid handhelds together.

@ScottMadeAThing Месяц назад

Haha :D

@Kannamoris Месяц назад

As someone growing up in the early 2000's, I knew a kid who had this thing and I had no clue what he was doing and I think neither did he. Remember that this was during the time where most of my friends had a Game Boy or if you had some rich parents you might even had the Game Boy Advance! Nothing like a stranger on the internet to remind you of better times and giving a nice demonstration as well!

@ScottMadeAThing Месяц назад

Haha glad to have reminded you :) I reckon my experience wasn't actually how it was in the rest of the West, but I remember all the kids at school were going on about how cool it was and that they are getting one for Christmas, I already had imagined scenarios where I'd ask my parents to cut out barcodes from boxes and being told no, so although I wanted one I knew I'd never get one. Christmas holidays came and went and in January, NOBODY mentioned their disappointing presents. One kid brought his in, nobody understood it and then it got confiscated by a teacher anyway haha 😂

@GraciousKiller Месяц назад

fantastic outro song and video, but especially outro song, sir. thanks :)

@ScottMadeAThing Месяц назад

Thank you! Glad you stayed until the end, looking at the stats, a lot of people have clicked off before getting to see it haha.

@bugberrycloth5327 Месяц назад

Love this! surprised you don't have more subscribers.

@ScottMadeAThing Месяц назад

Ah thank you, glad you like! Either I just don't get enough exposure/views or I'm crap haha 😆 Hopefully it'll pick up the better I get and the more videos I do, onto the next one now :)

@brandonstonestreet-grillo2358 Месяц назад

What a great cleaning! Great video man! Keep it up! Love all the retro stuff.

@ScottMadeAThing Месяц назад

Thank you, glad you enjoyed, loads more to come soon :)

@masloo.9342 Месяц назад

i did not look how much subcscribers your channel had and i can say you deserve more. because i thought its more like 50k

@ScottMadeAThing Месяц назад

Thank you, that means a lot. I guess it's a long old journey that I'm at the start of. I don't do myself any favours but I can't stand the idea of telling people to subscribe, I less it's really subtly 😂

@wand222 Месяц назад

I had a similar toy growing up called Skannerz

@ScottMadeAThing Месяц назад

Yes! I heard about that when researching this, there were a few others as well, which is odd as you'd have thought they'd have learnt from the OG BCB haha.

@HandheldComputing Месяц назад

I remember this coming out and couldn't work out why anyone would want it! Nice restoration though 😃

@ScottMadeAThing Месяц назад

Haha it's crazy isn't it. Thank you! I sort of restored the box as well but that's for another video :)

@JonMcMenamin777 Месяц назад

Hahaha, awesome outro!

@ScottMadeAThing Месяц назад

Haha thank you, the best bit of the video is the end 😂

@andreaserafini1523 Месяц назад

I really hopped Scotticus would make a comeback! 😅

@ScottMadeAThing Месяц назад

Scotticus is weak but died with honour.

@49short Месяц назад

There was a very similar toy that came out in the mid-late 2000's that, iirc, did actually get pretty popular (at least here in the US). I believe it was called either "Code Skannerz" or just "Skannerz". Also the word "Skannerz" may have also had an "A" instead of an "E" but regardless it was definitely spelled in that stupid way.

@ScottMadeAThing Месяц назад

Yeah! I read about them. I don't know why they did that after seeing the flop of the BCB, although the scanner is much better, it didn't require you to cut the barcode out of everything, you could just swipe it over, if only the original BCB had that, who knows how much better it would have done! Also having bitmapped graphics instead of just boring numbers probably would have helped, but this was 1991-1993 I guess :)