Uncovering the Mystery of the Rare Zeebo Console

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In today's video, we discuss the history of the Zeebo console and why it failed.
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@LadyDecade 11 месяцев назад

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@viniciustferreira0 11 месяцев назад

I am from Brazil and i can assure that the marketing of zeebo was mostly none. I heard about it just after the servers were shutdown. But i think zeebo was something very important for the tech developing here in Brazil.

@MaxxVelo 11 месяцев назад

May not have been the best option but I still think its cool it was a console that Brazil could call its very own 🇧🇷

@joezar33 11 месяцев назад

Brazilian Double Dragon looks freaking awesome on the Zeebo , I'm more shocked there was no "King of Fighter's" for the Zeebo , every time I see a KOF tournament a guy from Mexico vs some guy from Brazil..

@viniciustferreira0 11 месяцев назад

@@joezar33 KOF was huge in Brazil in all versions.

@GodGangBlessed 11 месяцев назад

Your not Brazilian you speak English silly 🪿 they speak goofy Spanish

@helderoliveira2994 11 месяцев назад

@@GodGangBlessed get lost with your misinformation

@liquuidqd 11 месяцев назад

Hi, as Brazillian I can tell you how Tec Toy was a awesome game company. In 90, they bring us Street Fighter 2 to Sega Master System, and a ton PR-BR localized games. Zeebo was years ahead of its time, but without great games

@Fabio-lq7wb 11 месяцев назад

Yeah... but other than having a pretty great graphics for an 8 bit system, the gameplay was pretty bad, even knock off SF clones for NES had a better gameplay, which is a shame, because the Master System should be the definitive SF experience for the 3rd gen era.

@carlosjuniorfox 11 месяцев назад

I'm just enchanted with your pronunciation of "Rio De Janeiro". Wonderful

@TheBl00D1u5t 11 месяцев назад

Srs?

@rockslash5614 11 месяцев назад

The thing is that Zeebo was a failure here in Mexico and they invested a lot on it. Brazil underestimated Mexico regarding the videogame industry here. No one here wanted cheap third-party consoles. Since the 80's and 90's in Mexico, we had official consoles and we grew up with them. We were poor but not that poor to buy a Zeebo. We could at least afford a PS2, Gamecube or Xbox even if we did not have money for the original games so, we would use piracy instead, but no weird unofficial consoles. Nintendo, Sony, Sega and Microsoft were always accessible here in Mexico. Oh yeah, and to us, European plugs look strange xd

@giovanifm1984 11 месяцев назад

Zeebo was not Brazilian, but a Qualcomm project to occupy a market niche in poor countries. This sold almost nothing in Brazil as well, where there were also consoles from Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony officially sold when Zeebo was launched, in addition to the immense accessibility of piracy.

@yockson4282 11 месяцев назад

It was the same in the brazilian market. By almost the same price you could by a modded PS2 and play with pirated DVDs that were sold for very cheap. For those with more money the Wii and Xbox 360 also could be easily modded to play pirated games so the Zeebo had no advantage to anyone, a major flop.

@rockslash5614 11 месяцев назад

@@yockson4282 Oh well, nice! Then we are not so different after all 😅Obrigado!

@kamikaze82 11 месяцев назад

Lady Decade covering the Zeebo? Uncle Derek would be proud.

@Fabio-lq7wb 11 месяцев назад

At the time, I remember clearly that Tectoy claimed they were not competing with Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, however, this was a lie. The Zeebo system used to be pretty much the same price as a PS2 (still going strong in Brazil at the time) and with much less games on it, and since you could buy an unlocked PS2 very easily, and having access to pirate games was somehow even cheaper than the ones being offered by Zeebo, people would obviously pay for the system that has more benefits on it, so, no wonder Zeebo failed so bad.

@carlosjuniorfox 11 месяцев назад

19:25 That is also a Brazilian meme. The actress is called Renata Sorrah and this was a scene from a soap opera on Globo TV. "Senhora do Destino" if I not get wrong. Means something like "Destiny Madan" or sort of.

@felipenachmanowicz9393 9 месяцев назад

Indeed, as a brazilian gamer I had heard of Zeebo before its launch cause I'm an avid gamer and it was news. But when it comes to mainstream media, there was not much on it. And it was even prior to its release a huge meme in brazilian gaming communities. I can confidently say that releasing a gaming console in Brazil without pirate games during that time was a hard sell to begin with.

@megamegaO 11 месяцев назад

YES. Time for more Lady Decade videos. I've been binging your content for a while. Keep it coming!

@HommerThadeu 11 месяцев назад

I worked at a department store here in Brazil when the Zeebo was released. I was responsible for the electronics, including videogames consoles, I don't remember ever selling a single unity of Zeebo.

@feplays007 11 месяцев назад

É um console que teve versões de jogos interessantes, como Resident Evil 4, Crash Bandicoot e Double Dragon.

@willhuerik5095 11 месяцев назад

I am from Brazil. Well done in the video.

@CasualConsoleGamerGuy 11 месяцев назад

I still wonder why Brazil is so into Sega consoles. If I'm not mistaken, I think the Sega Master System is still popular there. Can anyone from Brazil confirm?

@TexasHollowEarth 11 месяцев назад

... yes. Master System is HUGE there. There's many exclusive SMS games made JUST for that region, being in Portuguese.

@rickyrosay33977 11 месяцев назад

@@TexasHollowEarth@TexasHollowEarth and it's still alive as we speak that's insane

@CasualConsoleGamerGuy 11 месяцев назад

@@TexasHollowEarth that actually blows my mind!

@yockson4282 11 месяцев назад

It's still popular among the people who had it back then and retro gamers, but only in those niches. While TecToy tecnically still sells Master Systems they are cheap Plug&Play consoles with some ROMs built-in, some of those even had mobile games bundled together.

@CasualConsoleGamerGuy 11 месяцев назад

@@yockson4282 That makes sense. I imagine plenty of Brazilian gamers are using the modern consoles, too, right? (Switch, PS5, XBox Series X)

@Galvamel 11 месяцев назад

Love it. I've heard of the Zeebo, but never saw one before. I would have loved to have heard your opinion of the game play, and overall hand-feel of the system. Did the Zeebo you got not work? It would have been great to see it running.

@TheBl00D1u5t 11 месяцев назад

She said what games were on it and showed them being played.

@r.mitchell2910 11 месяцев назад

I love your content, keep dropping that knowledge!

@PedroGarcia-oz7ci 2 месяца назад

I'm Brazilian and I had never even seen a zeebo in person or known someone who has, let alone owned one, but of course, Lady Decade has one haha

@Stu2be2 11 месяцев назад

Lady decade equals gracious living

@_SYDGAMING_ 11 месяцев назад

Uncle Derek will be with this video if he sees it

@almendratlilkouatl 11 месяцев назад

I lov u Lady Decade!!

@paulcousans4254 11 месяцев назад

What a brillient insightful video! Well done.

@RickYeiBeckerYT 5 месяцев назад

We are sorry that the Zeebo platform is gone. however, it is unlikely that I or anyone else could acquire the emulator (infuse) as a basis which was created by Tuxality to develop a Zeebo emulator with UI fluent design for Windows 11. it could probably relive the childhood of the Zeebo platform by the emulator's development in the future. Greetings -Rick Yei Becker

@wadmodderschalton5763 10 месяцев назад

Due to the failure of the Zeebo in both Brazil and Mexico, plans to release the console in other countries like China, India and Russia were quietly cancelled after the discontinuation of the system in 2011. (17:42)

@ZeldaSneakyLink 11 месяцев назад

In love with this there needs to be mandatory educational games like homework!!! Newer generations about to get blessed up

@robmcleod2876 11 месяцев назад

Stop skeletons from fighting has a couple of good videos on the zeebo, highly recommend if this piques your interest

@Leticia_Tomazini 8 месяцев назад

I wonder what they did with all the unsold consoles. They must be buried somewhere like the et no nes cartridges.I'm Brazilian and I've never seen a Zeebo for sale in any store, not even at the time of launch. Sometimes it seems like this was a widespread delusion and this console never existed

@McAster99 11 месяцев назад

The games were terrible, BREW was so difficult it made people unlearn things just attempting to use it, and the controllers were sad, but I still have a soft sport for this silly device and what it attempted to be. And if nothing else, glowing blue name logo is something I wish more devices had.

@angelmaya3231 11 месяцев назад

Es muy raro y extraño ver a Chabelo en su video Lady Decade.

@mikesilva3868 11 месяцев назад

Excellent review 😊

@ngiallag2792 11 месяцев назад

impressive idea to update the console firmware/ software back then and download games. now it's normal for consoles now.

@meticulouselectronics 11 месяцев назад

Every company that is ahead of their time fails. Sega had a VR headset ready to go back in the 90s. But they cancelled it when they seen Nintendos failure Virtual Boy

@JGreen-le8xx 11 месяцев назад

Lady Decade!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😄

@StreetFighterRewind 11 месяцев назад

It's a pity that a double dragon game is confined on this zeebo console. Someone should extract it or convert it !!

@josephcronin2965 11 месяцев назад

That's a normal plug. God, the European plugs look so weird....

@StevenHennessey-ks4mz 8 месяцев назад

@lady decade do you and your other half have a online retro games shop ? Because wow how do you get hold of all those games and systems! 😮 Microsoft msx next?

@lacuevadegolum9448 11 месяцев назад

Here in mexico it was a whole marketing campaign suronding it

@ensabahnur7657 11 месяцев назад

Another console I never heard of!

@arvinrunstein5707 11 месяцев назад

All right. Marry me

@jesusmgw 11 месяцев назад

I can't even begin to image what brazilian gamers must experience when traveling and seeing current game consoles. Also imagine only having master system, megadrive, zeebo and ps2 in your country in 2023. Crazy world.

@helderoliveira2994 11 месяцев назад

😂😂😂 laughs on Xbox Game Pass

@lpmbufftelecom 11 месяцев назад

Brazilian here. We do have access to PS5, PS4, Swith, XBOX Series S and X, along with PC Gaming and along with PC and mobile gaming. They are all selling in every major department store.

@jesusmgw 11 месяцев назад

@@lpmbufftelecom Still incredible that you went straight from PS2 and Zeebo to PS4 and Xbox Series.

@thaismagalhaes5928 11 месяцев назад

What? We do have current game consoles.

@gigs96 11 месяцев назад

You are joking, right?

@PerfectDarkFore 11 месяцев назад

14:05 you sound soooo cute speaking spanish.... u r lovely....

@soulcontrolwo6088 11 месяцев назад

So wait no feet Lady Decade?😢😢 Oh come on🤤

@TempoLOOKING 11 месяцев назад

Simp

@edgardeitz5746 10 месяцев назад

0:46 - What cartoon were these rats from?

@polancoboomer 8 месяцев назад

They're from Huevocartoon. They're very popular in Latin America, especially their home country in Mexico. Loads of web animations were made, movies were made...and even product tie-ins too, like their promotion with Vitovo Kids powdered egg.

@projectmayhem6898 11 месяцев назад

So, this is basically the Brazilian Ouya?

@enge.marcelo 11 месяцев назад

Interestingly, the box is written in Spanish instead of Portuguese.

@macardor899 11 месяцев назад

Sirwilson from Brazilian youtuber play this one

@cobraskai9379 11 месяцев назад

Alô Tec Toy !

@chrisray9653 11 месяцев назад

Brazilian gaming is so based.

@DoomyRei 11 месяцев назад

Brazil is weird

@dodgeramsport01 11 месяцев назад

I know you are married but DAMN! lol

@ContendCreators 11 месяцев назад

Simon zeebo

@daryljr5361 11 месяцев назад

Figures why Sony is still on top

@Sylkis89 11 месяцев назад

if you don't know how to pronounce place names properly in their respective languages just stick to the English pronunciation and don't create monstrosities like whatever your (inconsistent, different each time) pronunciation of Rio de Janeiro (and with a show-off tone of voice at that) mixing English, German, French and made-up nonsense, cause it's so cringe it's borderline offensive to the viewers, almost physically painful to hear. Please for the love of anything good in the word out there, just DON'T EVER DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN ;-; I'm not even Brazilian or Portuguese and it still made me physically curl up in this mental agony this caused.

@joaogabrielgama4925 11 месяцев назад

The idea was for Zeebo to have the power of a Playstation 2. Qualcom delayed all deadlines and didn't deliver anywhere near what it promised. There were even rumors of industrial fraud promoted by major competitors in the sector here. It was a pity.

@MikeDragon 11 месяцев назад

Still a much better love story than the Ouya's.

@BOFAFett 11 месяцев назад

It’s not “ a necessity for gracious living”?

@garethbeaton8414 11 месяцев назад

Just like a Xbox s in the fucher

@TheSoundsOfTheSTown1 11 месяцев назад

No feet 😢

@ren7a8ero 11 месяцев назад

I heard about it back in the they more through ye olde goode foruns than their marketing. While Sega was active in the Dreamcast life cycle, Tectoy was selling them, along with Master System, Mega Drive, and some strange vcd-based karaoke machines. When the Dreamcast phased-out, Tectoy lost they main cutting-edge tech provider. I'm happy they at least didn't entered 100% in the zeebo company, instead being a holder/partner, or else they would probably bankrupt.