I love hearing about weird British and European games from the 80s and 90s. It's a dramatic illustration of how wide the cultural gap between the continents used to be.
seeing that gameboy retail box in a store when i was young in 1991, is the one thing i remember so clearly as a kid. its still my dream game console to this day (i have 3 DMG's now lol)
I'm italian and I remember very well the Supervision, damn! It was strongly adverstised as "even cooler than the Game Boy" but the story was another: it was crappier than the Game Boy! You can still find a lot of brand new cartidges on italian eBay stores today, but no one buys them because the Supervision can stop working at all with such incredible ease. In fact I have two models of them which none of them works anymore (they're crappy built), plus the A2Heaven multicart you mentioned: the first version, similar to the Game Boy, was the first ever to be distributed in Italy. It was similar to the french version but it was white rather than grey. Then they changed the shape into the model called "Quickshot Model" to avoid copyright issues from Nintendo. Some of the Supervision games appeared on the NES as unofficial carts in Asia and USA. In Italy we had also the Gamate, distributed by the toy company GIG, but it didn't last for more than a year. A total failure. Fun fact: a lot of italian eBay resellers are full with "new old stock" Gamate games, but it seems that a single working console can't be found in all Italy. Facts.
I didn't have an NES growing up. I didn't even have a crappy clone. My NES was made out of cardboard and imagination. It wasn't until 1990 that we got a proper home computer.
The "Game Boys At Home" from the 2000s were quite interesting I'd say... From cheap and $#!t popstations to weirdly kinda competent licensed ordeals and everything in-between... I remember in the mid-to-late 2000s some of them even had backlit colour screens! I had my fair few in the early part of the decade, but by that point I was SO over it and I'm so glad I convinced my dad to get me a Game Boy Advance SP instead, even though the DS and PSP were already out... I was on a budget, and the GBA was still getting new games at the time, and besides, New Super Mario Bros. and the DS Lite weren't out yet so...
Love your content, live in Norwich and are super proud to see someone local doing well! Got some feedback though. Please stop using stock video footage. It makes your content look super lazy and makes me think ‘why am I watching this’ It’s not worth the time you spend finding the clips. Good luck!
I asked for a GameBoy for Christmas, I got a Mega Duck. Honestly, I had fun with it. Not as much fun as I would’ve had if my parents had gotten my a GameBoy, but still, it passed the time on the backseat on the way to the grandparents just the same.
My parents originally bought my brother and I an Atari for the same reason you called out early in the video. The NES was expensive. The games were expensive. And our mom figured the Atari was the same thing, only a lot cheaper. Needless to say we got an NES a year or two later because the Atari was garbage at that point when compared to the NES.
grade school we all had tiger electrics like decks of cards trading them back and foreth at lunch break lol the king of the yard was the 2 player nintendo k.o. boxing with the little game pads that spooled out for 2 player.. that was the gem . its in the hands of a more careful collector now.
Gosh... I remember I had that Game Master at Xmas instead of a Game Boy and tasted that dissapointment... it was utter crap indeed, i'm suprised you can even find a working one today.
Great video about some terrible cheap handhelds.. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1175">19:35</a> finishes with a close-up of a black child. bruh 😂
There used to be an officially licensed Game Boy bubble bath. It came in a Game Boy shaped bottle which had one of these water ring toss type games built into it. Before I got my own Game Boy playing with the bubble bath ones in Boots was as close as I could get!
I can't get past how horrible the sound is on all of these. I mean, the bleepy little Game Boy sound chip wasn't *that* great but it could make decent music. But all of these, the sound would get grating in a matter of minutes.
my dad got me a supervision! i literally had a gameboy at home but kept the supervision at our summer house.quite enjoyed playing the games on that thing too!
