Memorex VIS System Review - Gamester81

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The Memorex VIS System was released in late 1992, and is a rare system today.
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@fushion999 2 года назад

My mom bought me this at a garage sale around 1998 and I was blown away it could play music while the screen had all these animations on it lol. I also had the sherlock game which I played for a total of 10 minutes

@whattheheck1000 8 лет назад

If I remember correctly, the VIS was only produced from November 1992 to January 1993. It was literally withdrawn from the market after about two months. It was that much of a turd. I think they sold some to liquidators who sold them off at much reduced prices around 1994-1995. A VIS that was 700 bucks in late 1992 was 100 by 1994. At least the CD-i had (pathetic attempts at) Mario and Zelda games. My birthday is December 25, 1992. Why did I have to be born during the VIS' short life? Ugh.... November 17, 2015 3:18 am

@JaredConnell 8 лет назад

just hit 4k subs? man now you just hit 100k! how things have changed huh!? keep it up John! love all your vids

@MNC122703 14 лет назад

Congraduations man 4,000 and you deserve ever one of them man . you have a great channel man , keep up the amazing work brother

@FastFoodies 13 лет назад

dude, you got one of the best channels for retro games and systems, really.

@ChoobChoob 9 лет назад

That start-up chime is quite nice. Gave me nostalgic tingles.

@ImTheKingOfHyrule 12 лет назад

I vaguely remember seeing this thing at Radio Shack when I was a kid. I remember thinking it was cool because it used CDs and had a funky looking controller, but my parents were smart enough not to buy it (my NES and PC were still keeping me plenty busy at the time anyway).

@ricftheman9 14 лет назад

great as always john keep it up and game forever

@dave4shmups 14 лет назад

You know, it seems like there were as many, if not more, consoles released in the early-mid 1990s as there were in the early 1980's!! Great review!

@JasonJ25 14 лет назад

Hey, congrats on getting 4000 sub. You deserve it because your videos are awsome. Keep making them and I'll keep checking them out.

@untouchable4rc 14 лет назад

Nice, I would've never heard of this if it wasn't for you! Awesome vid

@Gamester81 14 лет назад

Hey thanks man! You've been a support for a long time, and I appreciate that.

@Doomer170 14 лет назад

Hey Gamester! Nice work man, yet again have you shown me a system I haven't heard of before. Then again, I was only 6 years old when this system was released...

@silkvein 14 лет назад

Well, you got me man. Your videos are great. I'm more of a practical collector. I only collect stuff that I like to play, but I love hearing about all of the rare stuff out there that went under the radar. and I'm hitting the subscribe button......now

@sinistermoon 14 лет назад

That console could have been at a thrift store mixed in with the VCRs and I would have never known! Awesome video man!

@Gamester81 14 лет назад

Yeah I do have an Action Max system. I'll do a review over it soon.

@DukeTheSPO0K 10 лет назад

You just got your Camcorder Working?? Wow man!! You are Retro to the Core.

@SuperGatorfan1 14 лет назад

Congrats on 4000 subs, that's pretty amazing. You have so many cool system, ballpark figure how much do you think you have in on all of your collection? Another great vid, keep up on the good work. Peace.

@PhatPhunk 14 лет назад

Awesome review John!! I swear I've not heard of this system before! Thanks for the info! It really reminds me of the CDi :) Cool piece of hardware!

@SZF123456 10 лет назад

I sincerely appreciate you posting this. My family had one of these and I for the life of me couldn't figure out what the fuck it was for the past, I dunno, almost 20 years now. Thanks!

@bitpixpr 14 лет назад

Awesome review!!

@captcorajus 10 лет назад

OMG.. Now THAT brought back memories. I was working at Radio Shack when this thing came out, and thought it was really something else. It was 1992.... pre internet. The encyclopedia it came with was really something. When you consider that an encyclopedia set sells for $2200, the price wasn't that bad, the encyclopedia had interactive videos and all kinds of things with it. There were other more interesting games too. But with the advent of the internet, such a device has limited use, and life.

@OneWithWaves 11 лет назад

I just noticed that and it blew my mind. Glad I'm not the only one with that song burned into my memory :)

@benitofinito 14 лет назад

Conrats Gamester81

@willy7369 11 лет назад

@GAMESTER81, YOU always have the RAREST systems and due very good reviews !!! much props to you \m/ ** \m/

@VAR1UM 14 лет назад

Over 4,000 subs?! You shittin' me?! Congrats! You deserve it friend!

@dogeymon83 14 лет назад

Dang just when I thought I heard of them all, here comes gamester with another one. Always fun to see fail systems! This is probably the most unsellable one I've ever seen! It's like a $700 sega cd!

@tvandlust 14 лет назад

I have never heard of this! Thanks for the review.

@ornithaevum 8 лет назад

I want one they look pretty cheesy and old but whats the name for the bird/owl mascot is it these names (Owl ,Hoot, or Compton)

@ziginox 13 лет назад

I'm pretty sure the controller doesn't do an auto off, but rather just works when you push a button, as essentially it's just a remote (like you would use for a VCR) in a different shape.

@Audiomancer 13 лет назад

Wow, You've introduced me to some new systems today, subbed:)

@nathanallan1 14 лет назад

Odd that I've never heard of this one, oh well. Nice coverage!

@pakasack 11 лет назад

I think that's one of his signatures, he does it a lot in his vids.

@CeeStyleDj 10 лет назад

This was sold more as the class of "Infotainment", Education/Multimedia type device along the lines of Phillips CD-I and even 3DO. I always wanted one of these back in the day. I remember checking it out in stores and in catalogs. Tiger Direct I believe was the last company to market this.

@newcoleco 14 лет назад

Congrats for so many subscribers! Fun fact : In french the word "vis" means "screws".

@Diddddu 9 лет назад

i had this game for the turbo duel back in the day

@Pdak7 14 лет назад

I remember seeing these in Radio Shack. Glad I stuck with my genesis.

@danzk 12 лет назад

Maybe the audio jacks are for a tape deck to load programs?

@kramerthenunchuck 12 лет назад

I believe that many TVs in the 80s and 90s still mostly had mono sound. So if you were unfortunate and had an old TV you could still buy a pair of speakers and enjoy stereo straight out of the system.

@aljr357 8 лет назад

I remember seeing this thing in a store sometime in the 90s

@luiscanamarvega 12 лет назад

well this is one console ive never heard of.. thanks for the vid!

@linksgard2 11 лет назад

As soon as I heard that song, I immediately started scanning the comments to see if anyone knew what that was. Tidal Wave of nostalgia just then.

@Comptekhs 14 лет назад

Will it play audio cds that may be why it has a headphone jack ?

@chazmann87 11 лет назад

I really loved all your guitar work in Rage Against The Machine man.

@ChristopherSobieniak 12 лет назад

I recall Radio Shack peddling these back when the whole CD-Rom thing was big (going after the CD-i no less).

@jboypacman 14 лет назад

Man that Sherlock game really made the rounds back then it was on the Sega CD and Turbografx CD too lol.

@megamanfan3 12 лет назад

Yeah, that theme must've been in the public domain. Somehow the Lego Group (TLG) used that in said game as well.

@storino03 12 лет назад

I bought a Turbo Grafx bundle today and it came with a Memorex VIS wireless controller. LOL. Now I have to find the correct controller. Searching the VIS came across this video. Looks interesting!

@slimeboi59memes92 4 года назад

Do you know the video information system isn’t a bad console if you use it the right way

@BeerBellyDK 14 лет назад

Great video, love seeing these rare systems. This one reminds me a bit of (of course) the CDI, but also the Commodore Dynamic Total Vision, or CDTV. It also has a wireless infrared controller, unfortunatly one has to get an adapter, for two players. :) It's basically an amiga 500, without the keyboard or mouse, but a controller instead, and with a CD drive instead of the floppydrive. But i'm sure you already knew that, hehe. :) BTW, i think Sherlock Holmes is also available for that one.

@chocoblender 13 лет назад

the headphone jack was often used because it was the only way you could get stereo sound

@stanthaman09 12 лет назад

Good lord, I remember this thing. I moved 4 years ago and have no idea where this thing went. Had a good amount of games with it as well -____- Only game my cousins and I ever played on it was, Rodney's fun screen. lol

@HunterGonhunter 12 лет назад

my grandfather bought me one back in 95. just found the name today. Couldn't remeber what it was called

@g00171227 12 лет назад

does it play genisis games or playstion games ? was this older then playstation 2 ? that things ancient

@Lorfarius 14 лет назад

Very interesting bit of kit but like you say not worth picking up unless you are a collector.

@johnnyxsi 14 лет назад

Congrats on your sub man.

@faithm 12 лет назад

We played some Sherlock type game on this. It was a gift. I think she gave it to us (if I'm remembering it correctly) after it wouldn't sell and there were a lot of extras. Edit: oh, you showed the game, lol.

@Caztro72 14 лет назад

I only knew about this system from my Digital Press Collector's Guide. But I've never seen footage of the games! Thanks for doing this video! BTW, is this version of Sherlock Holmes the same as the one released for the TurboGrafx-16/CD system?

@anthonygriffin3405 4 года назад

Can anyone tell me what this is worth? i Just got this console with 57 games in great shape. Don't see any of them sold online. Thanks

@92vinman 14 лет назад

great and funny review!

@GenXtasy 10 лет назад

Oh I remember Ashenclone. He used to say that everything he had was rare and minty fresh. he was also a total nutcase.

@Comptekhs 14 лет назад

I remember when they had these at radio shack for sale.

@TheMathius78 12 лет назад

I remember seeing these at Radio Shack back in the day. Coming off the Sega CD back then seeing its version of Sherlock Holmes looked so much better to me. Nice find!

@bluetech7753 13 лет назад

I used to have this system I bought it when it had dropped to $ 399.00 it was fun to play around with I loved the Sherlock Holmes games and another game called the vampires's coffin. Space Quest was also a fun game. There were also trivia games like meeting of the minds. I wish I would have kept this system instead of selling it if only I had known that it was going to be rare .

@megabot80 10 лет назад

Was that Caleb's channel that passed away recently? Rip little dude

@blackmanfu 12 лет назад

Wow this really brings me back. My dad bought this for my brother and I a long damn time ago. I remember playing a VictorVector and Yondo game, among a few others that we had. Most of the games were really crap

@CucumberFan-ci8zk Год назад

The Icom logo has the Sonic's Schoolhouse hippo's theme!

@Ahmadu100 12 лет назад

How do you get these systems because they don't sell them on E-Bay?

@mcbrotherhill 14 лет назад

do you have the action max game system

@TheReimecker 11 лет назад

It was similar in function to the Philips CD-i and Commodore CDTV systems

@Sc0pee 10 лет назад

I appreciate the head phone jack wherever it is cause I like to play games with my headphones on. Many TV's don't have a headphone jack so it's cool if the system has it =)

@SamuraiClinton 14 лет назад

That may have been an x86 computer made for TVs, but XBOX was the later concept on that. also... I simply just re-used one of our old computers with a VGA-to-composite box with our TV when we got a new computer for the living room. I have recently ripped a good portion of our DVD movie library onto the hard drive of our old computer, so we could have a more reliable means to store them.

@lovelorn88nick 6 лет назад

what exactly happened to AshenClone?

@TIGGmovies 14 лет назад

Awesome machine!

@Lachlant1984 14 лет назад

I think I've played one of those Sherlock Holms games on PC, I'm not sure if it was this one or another one. I have heard of this system before, I believe it actually has a 286 CPU running at about 12 MHZ, no wonder the damn thing was so expensive.

@Gecko1993HogheadIncOfficial 13 лет назад

Gamester81 reminds me of the Long Lost Brother of Mark from Classic Gameroom...

@ozzer234 13 лет назад

it looked like a tv decoder lol but that so cool i love it bro

@0UTSYS123 4 года назад

Where's the buy link?

@dave4shmups 14 лет назад

Excellent video!! That would be cool if it could play PC games from the time.

@vicious-pi3rd 10 лет назад

Elementary my dear retro-gamer. It was the maid (Thunder Claps)

@WebVManReturns 12 лет назад

Memorex should make a modern 3D game system that way they can make an awesome ad featuring 3D graphics popping out of a television blowing some guy out of his chair.

@fszron 12 лет назад

@RetroToledo Those were the days. CDi, 3DO, Jaguar CD, and the Turbografx CD all competing with each other!

@royboy136461 14 лет назад

I Have two of these. One is still in the box brand new with games and all. Im going to put it on ebay since someone just sold a used one on there :)

@Gamester81 14 лет назад

Yep. =)

@Sephirothxxxxxxxxxxx 11 лет назад

I fucking looooved that game

@-DeScruff 12 лет назад

I was wondering why I knew that tune!

@THEONLYGORE 11 лет назад

good old redbook audio :)

@Ilanactingreel 13 лет назад

Your videos have inspired me to be a better person. You are truly a man of great wisdom and I hope to one day meet you and perhaps hold hands with you as we walk along the sidewalk. Be well