Oh my god, is that an actual pixel display? Congrats to the pop station people. They've moved from 1970's technology to 1980's! Another decade and they'll be up to the level of the original Game Boy.
mate, the GameBoy was released in 1989 if dot matrix displays were 90's tech, then the GameBoy wouldn't even exist lol we'd still have Game & Watches for a few more years
To give credit where credit is due, the "graphics" on this pop station is impressive...You know, for a pop station. I wouldn't mind if my parent bought me THIS back in the day. I used to have to rectangle 99 in 1 handheld....
Xiao Xiao was such an awesome flash animation back in the day. Do have to say I like the Dot Matrix style of this better than the Tiger electronic style from pop stations of yore.
"'Ey Mario! You gotta check out Risk King! It's fun!" "NO LUIGI. This is a bootleg version of our game! Don't buy into the hype!" "But you can see the player up close and personal! It's almost HD! Mario! Why didn't you believe me?" "Because you got Terminal 8-X-Y-Fuck You, Loogie. OKAY?!"
I bought all of my coworkers popstations back in 2005/2006 or so, when they played 999 games of Tetris... they were so great, and had the built in FM radio! ...AFTER watching this, I realize my old popstations were still better than this horrible thing.
When I first saw Super Mario (by the way I was very little) I thought that an actual person somewhere nearby was being controlled with that stick, and the TV was just monitoring the whole thing. I was seriously freaked out. I wonder if the people back in time would come to a similar conclusion.
@@wtos9153 knowing history, the time traveler would probably be burned at the stake for what they presume is witchcraft. I apologize if that is too violent.
This is false advertising! Apparently you can't use it as a laptop, for human trafficking, as a book, a folder or a song - despite what the icons on the left suggest.
Music from the transformer game is i believe, mega man 3's "weapon get" screen. Music from The Wall is from Mega Man 2- Heat man's stage. Intro music from Shoot Ball is the intro music to Duck Hunt on NES. Intro music from Receive Apple is the stage select theme to Ducktales on the NES. A few other tracks are recognizable but i can't put my finger on them. Interesting how all the music is probably stolen, lol.
Why wait? Anything with a mic input can scan magcards these days. And the magstripe isn't going away anytime soon. Chip and pin might (I said might) be more secure, but nobody dares get rid of the magstripe, they literally lose customers that way.
Lol, sounds like something that will happen at some point. But srsly, now thinking about it, i expect biometric is next. If done right, people shouldn't even move a finger to spend money!
YES! A NEW POPSTATION VIDEO! PRAISE THE GODS~ *Ashens making an offhanded comment about how he thinks that a game about being trans in society might work well* .... well that was unexpected. but then again, that transformers TRANS title screen was rather unexpected as well xD
My brain has been fucked so hard in recent years that I can't even tell if he was being sarcastic about games being an ideal medium for that sort of thing, or if he has simply caught the ideological plague from spending too much time with Nerd³.
When you pulled out the card, I had some PTSD flashbacks to Barcode Battler, and running around cutting the UPC barcodes off everything in sight as a kid.
Yo Ashens when Nintendo Labo is released, then China should quickly have a bootleg of that due to the materials being easily used for the process to copy Nintendo Labo itself so keep an eye out of that if China releases their ripoff.
I suppose if you mean just the cardboard peripherals, and not the games or a console, then I guess it would be easy to copy. But Pop Stations entire business model is plastic molding, squashing cheap prefab PCB systems in boxes, and drawing/'borrowing' some cartoons to sell cheap games. It would be difficult to implement a cardboard division. I don't think that there are enough switch owners in China who will use Labo for it to be a worthwhile endeavor.
Oh wow! The music from the Matchstick Man game is actually from one of my favorite NES games, Guerilla War. Specifically the Farmtown stage. A much lower quality version of the song with only the first half looped, but I recognized it instantly because Guerilla Wars has an awesome soundtrack.
Bloody hell. A pop station review. Cheap tat from china is why I started watching this wonderful man 10 years ago! The only youtuber I've never regretted clicking 'subscribe' to. So glad they're still making this crap xD
the wall… at 2:11 the graphic is from an old flash game website called miniclip, and it was their own version of breakout in flash. wow… thats a blast from the past
Wow the Pop Station technology has finally advanced to Gameboy levels where they now have actual pixels and not just small static sprites that light up. Truly a magical time.
I used to have a POP station in a PSP design thinking it was an actual PSP, turns out you need to put small cartridges in it to play space invaders and whatnot
I have many questions, having watched this ... such as, why when the screen appears to be about 128x64 actual pixels (derived from a graphing calculator one maybe?), do all the games actually run at a far more rubbish 64x32 logical pixels, doubling up all the physical ones? 128x64 would be a decent fraction of a Gameboy screen, knocking on for Watara Supervision (though not quite Atari Lynx) territory, and be not too much worse than some actual early TV consoles like the Intellivision and all that... Or whether the screen actually is in colour, not just 4 shades of grey, using that odd "colour calculator" effect where early LCDs would go through various shades of orange, green and blue when driven beyond "black"... or if the seeming effect of dark red and amber colours on the transformers was just some strange persistence of vision effect due to the background being shades of light green and cyan... And what even is responsible for the sound output? What did they think they were doing with the names? Does a version exist that projects onto a wall? Arrrgh.
The reason is that the screen is actually 48*32 pixels. If you remember on postrarnos how some pixels are shaped like characters or body parts, here, each pixel is shaped like… four squares. I know because I opened one and there are only enough contacts to interact with every other pixel, and because if a pixel is disconnected, four squares burn out a once. My initial thought was that the screens were originally from something else that had higher resolution graphics (96 by 64), but that doesn’t make sense because of what I mentioned earlier. What I’m guessing now is that it’s to give the illusion of better graphics at forest glance to potential buyers. TL;DR Each pixels is simply shaped like four squares at the hardware level. The true resolution is 48 by 32.
This is actually a huge leap forward from all previously seen Pop Stations. Pixel graphics, new games, ability to switch games without physically swapping out the screen. Even the instructions are less horribly translated than usual.
Xaio Xaio and other stick animations were my shit when I was younger. Some of those sound effects in that Matchstick Man game are totally taken from it.
Swiping your card beforehand to unlock gameplay features. What an apt metaphor for 2018. I wonder when Microtransaction Simulator 2019 will use this as 'Authentic, engaging swipe-gameplay'. More of a curse than Osiris ever was.
WHEEE-OOOO WHEEE-OOOO WHEEE-OOOO 🚨 But hey! Next gen popstation: lcd -> dot matrix The secondlast has a duckhunt music ripoff, the last one is worldmap select from ducktales 1 for nes...
The Wall has Heat Man's theme from Mega Man 2, Risker has the overworld music from Adventure Island 2, Shoot Ball has music from Duck Hunt (plus another game that I can't remember ATM), and Recieve Apples has music from both DuckTales and Mega Man 5.
I got so fucking happy when I saw this in my feed. By far my favorite series, just because of how laughably bad it is yet you make it seem like an actual product still. Keep up the work man :D
