The Ultimate Guide to the Game Wave Game System

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Every detail you need to know about this Game Wave Family Entertainment System created by Canadian company Zapit Games and Nytric Limited. I’ll dive deep into the history, the marketing, and the 13 games: 4 Degrees: The Arc of Trivia, Bible Edition, 4 Degrees: The Arc of Trivia, Vol. 1, 4 Degrees: The Arc of Trivia, Vol. 2, Click!, Gemz, Letter Zap!, Lock 5, Rewind 2007, Rewind 2005, Rewind 2006, Sudoku, VeggieTales: Veg-Out! Family Tournament, and Zap 21. I also go over Quiz Konnect, a seemingly unreleased game for the India Market. I also mention: the update disc, common problems with the system, development problem, BzzAgents, Tupperware, Bible Belt, Pyramid Schemes, Easter Seals Telethon, and the move toward smartphones.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:27 Development
02:08 System Overview
03:35 Common Issues
04:41 Store Availability
05:22 QVC
05:26 Bar Version
05:38 Bible Belt
06:13 Bzz
08:50 India
09:48 Easter Seals Telethon
10:21 Other Devices
11:01 The Games
13:36 Gemz
14:23 Click!
15:05 Letter Zap!
15:31 VeggieTales
17:08 Lock 5
17:26 Zap 21
18:15 Sudoku
19:13 Arc of Trivia Series
21:16 Rewind Series
22:20 Ranking of Games
22:47 System Menu
23:00 Upgrade Disc v60519
23:53 Summary
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Комментарии : 51

@krabparrot5724 2 года назад

Was looking for videos on some obscure "7th" gen consoles, was quite surprised to find such a fresh one, and also high quality and on point.

@kdiggz87 2 года назад

I remember setting this up as a demo unit at "The Source by Circuit City" which was basically Radio Shack renamed. It felt incredibly cheap and I thought it was just a dvd player with a marketing gimmick, but I was able to play it while working so I put a few hours on this machine lol.

@stonehorn4641 2 года назад

Lol radio shack went through so many names and got so much worse. 😅 now they are just "Source" here in Canada, and they are a shell of what radio shack was.

@nyxxic4550 8 месяцев назад

It was. The games were essentially just DVDs with a scripting functionality that allowed for some more features.

@Frontofshoe 2 года назад

Wow a Game Wave video! I found one of these at the thrift store here in the US, but i have no remote and just one game that was inside. So this is great!

@ZENITH_System_3 2 года назад

I loved when the guy didn’t want the ouya 😂

@TopSpot123 2 года назад

Excellent work with an exhaustive history. I like the Game Wave and also have the full library. I got my first one in a US discount/close out store in '06 or maybe '07. While the blog was active I won a game from them and was sorry they didn't find more success. The idea that the market had a spot for a simple and inexpensive family game system was absolutely correct as the Wii's success shows. You can attribute that to motion controls, but it really is that it was simple and easy to understand compared to what the rest of the market offered. This is the same market that the Intellivision Amico was hoping to tap. The only point that you didn't explicitly mention is that all of the software had a specific design ethos. Every game had to have simultaneously multiplayer (not taking turns). Trying to come up with ways to adapt traditional games to be played by everyone at once was another limiting factor to the games that could be offered. Again, great work explaining this lessor known system. I thought I knew everything but I learned more from you. Thank you.

@JaydenPixelsTV 2 года назад

Pretty great stuff! Hope to see more videos like this in the future.

@erniesdeck7550 Год назад

I literally just discovered your channel, can't believe I didn't run into you sooner I've seen a few videos now and really like your content. I definitely subscribed. thank you!

@Jonasmon 2 года назад

Super interesting and well made video. I didn't know anything about the system and learned a lot. Hope you may make more videos like this from other systems you own

@trevorblue4531 11 месяцев назад

11:37: Their are case variations in other games too! My copies of 4 DEGREES VOL. 1 & 2, and LETTER ZAP all have the ZAPIT logo on the spine!

@RemoWilliams1227 2 года назад

Just found your channel and I'm catching up on your videos. Really enjoying so far!!!

@owenvadala7882 2 года назад

I completed the set for this console! Such an odd console. Many of the games can be found sealed, but they are very difficult to find as they rarely pop up on eBay.

@stonehorn4641 2 года назад

They are quite easy to find in Canada. The consoles at least, not sure about the games

@roninh8 2 года назад

Great stuff dude. Keep up the amazing work kevin!

@janX9 Год назад

17:08 he doesn't want the OUYA!? I like my OUYA.

@amaster3434 2 года назад

Pretty good video! Glad to help out a bit with the Quiz Konnect stuff. Learned a bit of stuff I didn't know about, like some of the Blogpost and Bzz stuff. I've seen those Bzz pamphlets before, but didn't know what it was.

@GamingTheSystems1 2 года назад

Hopefully now more people will know about this system, because right now it seems like me and you are the only experts. :)

@solracrod Год назад

“Here, you dropped this”… “uh I don’t think I want it after all “ - loved the Ouya gag lol 😂

@oblivieon1567 Год назад

These standalone niche game consoles are always interesting. I don't think the games are bad conceptually and probably would have done okay if they were on a different console. There is a party game called Hidden Agenda on PS4 that is interesting where it uses phones as the controller. Those games never really took off but I enjoyed the concept and have played it with friends and they enjoyed it too.

@SHUPIRATE1991 Год назад

Never heard of this system and I really enjoyed your overview of it

@takamine0427 Год назад

Great video. Had never heard of this system before.

@benaiahburns4046 2 года назад

Great review of the Game Wave!

@krallopian 7 месяцев назад

I used to solder these and test the machines at Nytric, I helped out with graphics on some of the games too (I remember working on dice for some game) and just saw this in a random book while visiting Germany =D

@liminal-waves 2 года назад

That was very interesting! Even though I'm Canadian I've never heard of this.

@zupergodo1 Год назад

Este video de nicho siempre aparece cuando se busca gamewave Y para mi lo tiene bien merecido es uno de los mejores de este canal de RU-vid

@zupergodo1 Год назад

Me encanta este video Cada tanto lo vuelvo a ver

@Bassjunkie_1 2 года назад

I really enjoyed this one

@FunkyStudios 5 месяцев назад

Randomly found one of these at thrift store, I thought it was just a unlabeled DVD player with 6 remotes for some reason since the logo sticker was gone, but after learning about it, this is the funniest console I now own. (I get how this is a family console, but this thing 100% needed a You Don't Know Jack game.)

@bluefates58 2 года назад

Huh never knew this was made in Canada, wonder why I never saw one since I live there? Also the design of this console is really cool

@amaster3434 Год назад

Oh, by the way, GameWave stuff is up on pricecharting now, so maybe some values for GameWave stuff can be determined.

@albigoat Год назад

i picked this up as a joke for 5 bucks when i found out this exists

@zupergodo1 2 года назад

Mas videos como este por favor

@GamingTheSystems1 2 года назад

Quiero hacer uno para Nuon, pero necesito averiguar cómo grabar discos. No tengo toda la biblioteca.

@zupergodo1 2 года назад

@@GamingTheSystems1 parte de la biblioteca fue reeditada por songbird produciones

@GamingTheSystems1 2 года назад

All I need is Space Invaders XL and Tetris.

@bricegraham8256 Год назад

I had a Gamewave years ago. We had got rid of it. I forget if we sold it and just gave it to someone. I got no clue.

@Anonymousgull3 2 года назад

Would love to see a ultimate guide for the Atari XEGS you don’t hear much info about it

@GamingTheSystems1 2 года назад

I may be out of my league for that one. I don't have much knowledge about the Atari computer family, which would be key to understanding the XEGS.

@BitestheStuff Год назад

The console doesn't seem well designed if it's giving you a plastic smell every time. They also could have probably saved money with smaller controllers and console size, sell it for even cheaper. Maybe have playable arcade games that aren't just quiz games.

@matthewwood3394 Год назад

I think party games and see Mario Party, leaves or Kart games. the Game Wave seems to leave a lot on the table.

@ogre706 2 года назад

Move over Super Mario, the Game Wave is here. I actually rather like the design of the console though, other than the controllers. It feels like there was some potential in this thing.

@nonstopmaximum2141 Год назад

I saw one of these recently at a thrift store for 10 bucks. Didn’t buy it though because it was pretty beat up and had no remote or games.

@omarguerrero6417 Год назад

Their a veggietales game!

@GamingTheSystems1 Год назад

Yes, there is a Veggie Tales game for the system that is covered in the video.

@fredo3161 Год назад

Ha ha. Mind Trap. Oh man. We used to play that back in the day. And VeggieTales was fun when I was a kid. Never heard of this trash heap though.

@jeffro24 2 года назад

my sisters boyfriends dad worked for the company that made it and we were given one it was very meh

@djtomoy 2 года назад

What’s the opposite of a hidden gem? Hidden turd?

@adrenochrome_slurper Год назад

displayed deuce

@Gabensy 2 года назад

🤦‍♂️

@meetmeinthegameroom8686 2 года назад

Dude there’s a letter B in the word suBscribe. Two of the even! Please say the first B when you say the word a thousand times in your videos. That would be much more entertaining and not so annoying