25 years. That's almost as long as something that took 26 years! Custom Gameboy courtesy of www.gameboymods.co.uk Twitter: / ashens Reddit: / ashens Facebook: / ashens
I remember Hugo being played on TV (read: on the national TV broadcast) by kids calling a special contest number in the morning. They would push 4 and 6 on their phone and Hugo would move left or right, 2 for down 8 for up etc. Your success was largely based on how close to the TV-station you lived, the lag for anyone living anywhere else in the country was insane.
Argonaut software developed Race Drivin' for the Gameboy, which impressed Nintendo so much they asked them to develop what would become Starfox (Starwing). Argonaut also designed the Super FX chip to go with it from scratch, Also the Super FX chip was originally called the "Mario chip", it's also printed on every early chip.
They also made the mediocre pc fighting game (but with awesome music) "FX fighter". Though for an early 3d pc fighting game, it was still reasonably good.
IIRC that was originally meant for the SNES as their answer to Virtua Fighter, hence the "FX" in the title, but that version was scrapped. I get the impression the the Super FX 2 they were using by then probably wasn't powerful enough to do it justice.
When I had my Game Boy as a kid we had this one really super bright floor lamp right next to where my dad sat on the sofa to watch TV after work. I was always so disappointed when he got home because it was the best place in the house... well, nearly the only place in the house where I could easily see my screen. Ahh the bittersweet memories.
The 3DS is actually doing pretty well, that's normal for Nintendo handhelds. It's just Nintendo just has a giant Wii U sized hole leaking out the money the 3DS has made.
Ah,, my first strong memory as a 5 year old child. The year was 1994, and I received a Gameboy and Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. About a year later, I was playing the game again in my room, and got to the 3 little pigs boss in Mario Zone. I kept dying over and over, and out of frustration I banged the Gameboy against my head which cracked the screen. That was the saddest day of my life. To avoid getting in trouble, I hid it under some filing papers in the computer desk in our bonus room. My mother didn't ask me about it for a good 6 months, and while she was disappointed with me for hiding it, she bought me the recently released Gameboy Pocket.
Ouch. I cracked the screen on mine only recently. I took it to school with me, it was in my pocket and I banged it into a desk. I didn't even pull it out of my pocket until I got on the bus and I gasped so loud as soon as I saw it and it caused a few heads to turn.
I recently discovered 6 golden coins. I wasn't expecting much, especially after the previous mario made for the GB. Gosh, was I surprised! What a hidden gem that is!
Anyone Remember "dial in gaming" where you played games like "Hugo" on some Ant and Dec tv show by using your landline phone to play?( I remember Live n kicking, and some other show. can remember names.) Yes your LAND LINE phone. tones made the character on the screen(TV) move very delayed and appallingly jerky movement. then you won a prize if ant and Dec said you were the high score etc... Larry probably beat the game this way mind =P
I spent a whole winter (well maybe 3-4 days during a terrible snowstorm) jammed under a lamp on a stand, curled up to one side of a rocker armchair playing Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening from beginning to end. On the last day I had to go to a magazine shop to get a gaming magazine that told the pattern to get through the final maze, because I had been wandering aimlessly through it for hours and I was losing my mind. The snow drifts were so high we couldn't get our front (and only) door open, so we had to open a window and slide out. I have such a fond memory of that time and any time I hear the music from the game it instantly takes me back to 1993.
uhm... the black cartridges are not just black because of a design choice... black ones are GB Color games that are compatible with the original one...
As a kid I had a game called Robopon, which was a ripoff of pokemon with robots. But the unusual thing was it had an IR sensor which you could us a remote control for your TV to send items and stuff to the game, its really unique and strange, you didnt have that to show so I thought I'd mention it.
I'm glad you mentioned that. I actually found Robopon a lot of fun and played the sequel as well which ended up being a let down because the remote/clock gimmick was axed and it changes the gameplay mechanics rather than improve them. I liked a lot of games that I considered to be "Pokemon ripoffs." Like the various digimon games, The Dragon Warrior Monster Tamer series, Azure Dream's (which was really a rougelike but that term didn't exist among 9 year olds in the late 90s), and who can forget......wait. What game am I thinking of again? Animorphs had a game and it was a pokemon knockoff. I'll just let you imagine what the gameplay was like.
panic_more Oh tell me about it. I loved that little series. It did the monster breeding before Pokemon and did the thing that Pokemon still hasn't done with breeding. Mixed offspring results. That and the aftermath was pretty limitless. Find all the monsters, Fight all the demon lords, win all the tournaments, and visit all the worlds. Was a bit let down by the Dragon Quest monsters joke but that was quite a few years later.
Oda Swifteye They sort of attempted mixed offspring with weird combinations of moves from the parents. You can get a pikachu to learn surf this way. But it would have been more interesting to have colour swaps and type changes passed onto offspring.
Holy crap! I completely forgot about WWF Superstars until watching this, and you're completely correct! I don't think anyone in my family or anyone I knew bought the game, but I had it, I remember it. I have no clue where it came from.
It's been a while since Ashens put out a gaming hardware video, but a series focusing on the Nintendo Game Boy is really awesome. Looks like there's both officially licensed things and some non-licensed stuff as well. Great overview of the Game Boy and some games along with a few interesting quirks along the way.
Just saying the PSP did stand a chance. In fact the PSP is the only handheld in history that shared a decent portion of the market with Nintendo's handhelds by selling nearly 80 million units. Also the PSP is by far my favorite handheld because of the hack ability. Do not get me wrong.. I understand that Nintendo dominates the handheld market but saying PSP did not stand a chance is so utterly incorrect.
I remember winning my Gameboy in a bag of Quavers. Years later my brother painted Space Wolves decals on it for some reason and then I lost it on ten pin bowling trip.
Just a statement on how popular the Gameboy was: my grandmother, who was about 60 when the Gameboy was released, bought one to play Tetris and tennis on it. My grandfather only used it to play baseball.
Jeez Ashens, telling the difference between Chinese and Japanese is easy! And definitely something you should know considering your particular career in reviewing cheap tat If it's nothing but crazy complex characters then it's most likely Chinese! 我不知道任何中国 If it's a combination of complex characters and simple characters then it's Japanese! アシャンスの手を見るのが好き Using this rule, you can see that those fake cartridges were, as they pretty much always are, written in Chinese
I was born in '95 so I believe the earliest rendition of the Gameboy that I had was the Gameboy Colour. But my heart belongs to the Gameboy Advance. Not the SP with the back light and all, but the original model. I even had one of those awkward lights that you stick on the top so you could see the screen. Kind of.
"Dead lines" on a Game Boy screen can actually be easily repaired - heat has to be applied to the ribbon cable that connects the LCD to the motherboard, which thereby reseats the individual connections and allows them to regain proper contact (thus making the dead lines go away). The only point of caution is that the contacts sit beneath a rubber/foam (can't remember) strip, which you have to carefully lift without damaging the ribbon cable further.
I had a Game Gear as a kid, thank christ for the mains adaptor is all I can say. The number of batteries I sacrificed to that beast during trips was hideous. Did eventually move up to the Game Boy Colour which I loved. Sadly I broke my original one (dropped something heavy on my bed not realising the poor thing was under the covers and cracked the screen), one day I was given another one by a friend who didn't want his old one but it had no battery cover and was a bit beat up. Always get a bit of an itch every now and then to buy another off ebay.
Nice one. Got to love the old GB. Like you say was released at just the right time and pretty much had a monopoly on the market back in the day. And to think 25 years on they are still making squeals to the same games on their new handhelds...
the black carts are actually ones containing both the game for the regular game boy and the version for game boy color. a notable example is link's awakening DX that contained extra puzzles based on colored elements that are missing if you play the same cartridge in the classic game boy
He won't read this / take notice / care anymore, due to how famous he is nowadays. I'm writing this as he says that they all have badly scratched screens, well mine is immaculate and has ONE tiny 3mm scratch on it!
Sure brings back memories! A neighbor gave me 2 of these and a few games along with a light and some games all in a case. I also have that 4-way connector. I never could get it to work with my games though...
Finally a random gaming video. I had originally subbed because of those. Nice to finally see one again. I mean I guess the cheap rip off console videos can only go so far you have probably reviewed most that have been made.
parent ˈpɛːr(ə)nt/Submit noun 1. a person's father or mother. "the parents of the bride" synonyms: mother, father; More verb 1. be or act as a mother or father to (someone). "exhaustion is incompatible with good parenting" synonyms: bring up, be the parent of, look after, take care of, rear, raise, nurture "all children are special to those who parent them"
MarioBlaster10 Actually, when you think about the use of the word, "be or act as a mother or father to (someone). "exhaustion is incompatible with good parenting" synonyms: bring up, be the parent of, look after, take care of, rear, raise, nurture "all children are special to those who parent them" " Then a 'parent' can be anyone or thing that takes on the responsibility of raising a child. So time to shutup. You are embarrassing yourself.
No. But I didn't write "Gameboy was my biological parent" did I? Seriously. Enough now. What I wrote made sense and was a humorous comment. You not being able to understand things fully has lead to all this boring back and forth. You are 100% wrong in your critique. You are dragging the average down. Stop.
***** Changing the internal battery is, as has been said before, quite simple and risk free. The only part that can be a bit fiddly is unscrewing the custom bit screw on the back, but you'll manage.
Vinicio Amores I assume it's somewhere in Europe because in North America the Ice cream truck plays nursery ryhmes. In the south it will even play Dixieland incredulously.
"Good thing they don't do that anymore, well not to the same extent anyway". Uhm, Stuart, are you aware that the Xbox One released in North and South America, UK and Australia in November 2013, but not until THIS MONTH in Scandinavia, Benelux, Switzerland, Russia, Japan and China? 10 months isn't as long as ~15-18, sure, but it's still mindbogglingly long.
"Sitting in weird places under lamps" I've never spent so much time near a lamp in any other period of my life than the Gameboy years. I had a lamp by my bed for the specific purpose of playing the various Gameboys. The backlight on the GBASP was such a godsend back then.
You could have fixed the screen on your original Game Boy from back in the day, there is a soldering iron trick if you watch RetroGameTech's video on repairing a Game Boy with that screen problem. But too late now :-(
Just got my screen fixed, but using PointBlankEngineering's service on eBay UK - yes money but he knows what he's doing and I recommend him; mine's as good as new now!
Thanks, I have a high sensitivity speakers system, very detail sound almost annoyed me sometime. Stuart dubbed other video too, but I commented in this video just for fun.
Drift_Nerd_ 9 nope, my brother always threw out the cardboard packaging. I wish I could have kept them. I'd still have my old stuff, my aunts broke my NES and ands and I stupidly ha e away my genesis when I got a ps1. Why are we so stupid as kids?
+sabotagethefool how about you print out sunglasses that you cant the explosion going on in the background out of, because lets face it: cool guys dont look at explosions
OH MY GOODNESS I used to own Shadowgate when I was 7 or something and I've been trying to remember what that cool point and clicker in the dungeon is ever since I somehow lost it. Mentioning that name really rang a bell, thank you so much.
Evil It's true. Saliva is pretty corrosive, but there isn't enough saliva in a single healthy person's breath to cause any harm to the electronics. Besides, only the prissy kids had the proper cleaning kits, so everyone else just blew in them.
Still waiting for Atari Lynx Extravaganza. I was interested in Lynx in 90s because of fantastic arcade ports but never got it, my first portable was Game Gear, I have 3 Game Gears in total, and completed from theyr wrecks one final Game Gear which I have today. Shit, blurry screen and appaling battery life but unique, never-seen-again games. I like consoles with landscape orientation, GameBoy was too narrow for me, until GBA, so Game Gear and than PSP and Vita were my choices. I actually love PSP so much that I had model 1000, 2000, 3000 and Go, all at the same time, Vita never deserved so much passion, Sony just didn't nailed it like with PSP.
I remember being in Spain as a kid and finding a 99 in 1 cartridge in a local shop, blew my mind, had world heroes 2 and a slew of Japanese fighting games on it..... Still have it 20 years later
I was given a gameboy when I was just 6 years old (1996). :) I dragged it with me everywhere. Heck, I think I never saw a day of elementary school when this thing wasn't in my schoolbag. Shit got real when my brother and I pooled our pocket money and bought the link cable. No-one else in our school had one, so we used ours to test out all kinds of games' two-player features. I still keep our gameboys and games in a drawer somewhere. Never getting rid of those I think. They're too precious to me.
4:28 has one thing that Ashens forgot, Sony also ripped off Nintendo with the PSX. Yes yes yes, I know Sony was paid by Nintendo to engineer a CD rom drive add on for the SNES/Super Famicom that got canned - but it is very obvious that the PlayStation was taken from them being hired by Nintendo to help build the Cd rom, the fact that the project was titled 'Play Station' also is a dead giveaway then a year or so later Sony release the PlayStation (minus the space and the Nintendo logo on it.) Then a year later Nintendo bring out the N64 (which was the first video game console to have a 360* analogue controller stick and to not be pixellated graphics. 6 months after that Sony copied that and made a dual analogue stick controller - before that they only had the traditional D-pad. lol I own a 1st gen PSX (yellow white and red plugs on the back not a 'sony' plug), a PSone and a PS2 fatboy silver. Not a sony hater troll just stating facts and my opinion. :)
You really need to research a bit more, Nintendo hired SCE to make the CD addon for the SNES but Nintendo broke the deal without warning and decided to work with Philips to make the CD addon. Needless to say SCE was very displeased so It was decided to continue with the CD addon but it would be made into it's own stand alone system. Philips also never ended up making a CD addon BTW, They Made the CDI while SCE made the PS1. Oh and PSX is a PS2/DVR that was only released in Japan. And yes I know It was also the PS1's proto name but if we keep calling it that then why not call the rest of the systems by there proto names :/
And Nintendo ripped off Atari for the idea of making a gaming console to begin with. It's just how it works. Ideas are rarely completely original, and are usually a copy of some sort, as it makes it easier than developing a complete and full-fledged original product. Plus if you take something that works or has worked and was successful, like the Atari 2600 (before the crash), and just build on that, it's much easier to do what a company exists for: to make money. Yes, all company's really only care about money: Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft (for the XBox), Sega, etc. Games and gaming systems are only a means to get that money and hopefully make a shit load of it. That's why I'm not a 'fanboy' of any company; I think it's stupid and childish. None of these company's would give you 5 bucks if you were starving and asked them. They only give a shit about making money for themselves. Do they care about making good games? Of course...so they can sell more of them and make more money! Are we catching on to a theme yet? I've always just bought the console that has the games I want, and have always been that way, then laugh at the fanboy wars--the curious and immature thing that it is.
aw man, when i was a kid in the early 2000's my family would take a lot of trips to Edmonton and my purple translucent gameboy colour was with me all the time! I would play pokemon blue for the whole 5 hour drive and never get bored once!
god i love this ahhaha cracked me up far better than any of 'try not to laugh impossible challenge' crap videos..and gameboy is awesome i still have it
