Restoring a Broken $2 Tetris Handheld. 9999999 Games in 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.พ. 2020
- I bought this old broken Tetris style brick game hand held console for restoration for $2. You can also buy similar devices new for the same price, but sometimes it's about the journey, not the destination. I don't know what math they used to calculate the promised 9999999 games, but I think the real number is a bit under 3000, mostly different variation of Tetris. The console is badly yellowed and dirty, the audio doesn't work, some screws are missing, and there is a lot of rust on the contacts.
I started by disassembling the console. Somehow I was surprised how cheap it was on the inside. Not sure what I expected... I found the audio was missing because one of the wire was loose. I suspect some parent may have done that to make the device silent because the sounds were really loud and irritating. The wire was easy to solder back on.
Second issue with the device was the corroded terminal for battery. This happens when a battery is left on the device and it leaks. This can sometimes ruin the motherboard but in this case everything was fine. I desoldered the terminals and put them in rust remover to get rid of the rust. After this I re-plated the terminals with nickel. Here's a tutorial to DIY nickel plating I made: • How to make simple DIY...
It was necessary to prevent them from rusting again. If I wanted to do an upgrade I could have fitted new terminals from a Gameboy because those are made of copper which is far better conducting.
I also removed the yellowing from the plastic shell which was supposed to be colorless. For this I used the same retrobrighting method as always. H2O2 and UV-light. Full tutorial here: • How to remove yellowin...
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"Right button feels wrong"
Sounds about right
😂😂
Lol
sounds about left
That was lame
But does the left button feel right?
Hey there, just wanted to let you know my 10 year old daughter’s favourite thing to do before bed is to watch one of your restoration videos with me. It’s great daddy daughter time. Her favourite part is when you organize and line up all the parts after disassembly. Cheers, and keep up the great videos.
- A thankful dad
AnthP1983 wholesome
good ol happy and wholesome comments!
Aww how nice !
Wholesome + ∞
THIS IS THE WHOLESOME COMMENT I'VE EVER FOUND
Odd Tinkering : Carefully removes each piece perfectly
My dad: Rips everything apart and slams it on the table
I bet that he does not put screws in a tray or on a magnet.
Pixilated Frog+ Does your dad make videos
ur howtobasic's son?
*still manages to fix it*
Me: Tries to be delicate but fails because I don't know my strength or the objects were already crumbling
"Man, this guy just left again."
"What about him?"
"He must be a total dental hygiene freak, he comes in every week, buying a pack of toothbrushes. Does he discard them after one day?"
They will never know
"It's for my duck"
@@aceman0000099 what's wrong with you don't be rude
@@rita-Shi-Mi eheheheh
@@rita-Shi-Mi he's an attention seeker. They do that to start an argument, not realizing the true chaotic potential that could be unleashed if they just used their minds, not for attention seeking, but for inciting hysteria.
I HAD THAT GAME! My parents bought one for each of my two siblings and me, to play during a 12 hour road trip. *We didn´t know how to mute it.* Imagine a road trip with 3 kids in the back simultaneously loudly playing music like 19:15 FOR TWELVE HOURS. My poor parents...
Oof
@just some dude without moustache lmao nice troll
relax
the ones my sister & i had, had mute buttons, but we never used it haha.. until my mom told us to do so after hours--
K
The moment when a restauration of this is more expensive than 1$ for a new one
And takes longer than anyone ever played the console for
To be fair, when I was a kid we had a system like this, and I played that for hours and hours. I was a dumb kid and anything with a screen and buttons could hold my attention
@@ThunderbolttheFox and still does
@@ThunderbolttheFox And now, even the buttons are not needed..
In the restaurat business, it's called fine dining
I had one of these ones back in '97, the same model and build. About 15 years later, while digging around a shed my father stacked things into, i found this lying in an old box. For curiosity's sake i turn it on and not only is it working, it has a tetris game my dad had on level four while paused. Fun fact: you can pause, turn it off, turn it on and it will still work, but to have it locked up 15 years, still saved up and with the same original batteries was just amazing. I still have the console around here, but i changed the batteries.
Good storage condition, then.
Cooooooooooollll
Wow
I have about 70 of the older Brick Games (~1990-2001) in 2021, and obviously I know about the pause function working when turned off, but to have one keep a game for 15 years is amazing! These UM6510s are very good to batteries (although my 9 in 1 ES99 and 300 in 1 E300 arrived from Italy both with corroded terminals - coincidence...?) whereas the earliest single-game E23s drain any batteries left in them.
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I remenber my mom bought one of those for me. the nostalgia almost bring tears to my eyes. miss u mom.
Deivy José awh
Same memory :) My mom and were always competing on the couch!
My mom is not dead but I have lost my cat. Loosing her was like losing a sister.
F
Hey
I know its been a year but...
Do you feel better? Im really sorry for your mom btw...
the de-yellowing is my favorite part lol
It’s really something isn’t it?
Same!! :D
@Lyzette De La Cruz
You
You
It's called retro bright
these things were EVERYWHERE in dollar stores for the longest time
I still have 7 of them, all fully functional 😌
@CTseal collector maybe??
CTseal how many shirts do you have?
Brak Eastwood that’s completely different. That’s like having 7 Xbox’s
Raider Nation 19 I have 7 pairs of switch joycons lol
Considering the need to press the "Sound" button multiple times just to silence it... yeah, I could see the disconnected speaker as intentional. lol
OOF
After an hour driving with that on…
Yeah as soon as he showed thw disconected cable I thought about some random kid with their chinese 999999 IN 1 and their parents just SO SICK of it that the dad just opened that shit up and ripped out the cable
Odd Tinkering: *opens fake Gameboy*
Odd Tinkering: "Reality is often disappointing"
Yes, no "Subscribe" sticker on the inside. :P
@@BuriedFlame
9.999.999 Games 🙄?
@@harisatryo3760 only 2,574
@@YellowToad acually only 9 games with different speeds and difficulties, everything past I is a variation of tetris
Now add backlight to it.
OverkillTinkering
@@fallyn2920 lmao
People who disliked this video probably had this gifted to them when they really wanted a Gameboy
When I was little I thought that was an actual Gameboy and for YEARS I always thought that was a type of Gameboy that Nintendo made. Oh the naivety of the childhood, I was very happy in those times miss that
I used to have these (there were multiple cheap-ass fake versions of tetris-like games) and kids would think I was so cool with my Gameboy, made me feel a little less bad that my parents didn't have money to actually buy me one :D
We found a few a couple of years ago, still working after 20 years, lol!
@@SuAva I have a collection of about 70 different variants of older Brick Games ranging from 15 to 30 years old (yes, they were made from 1990 in single-game form, with the multi ones starting a few years later) and they pretty much all work :)
@@SuAva ekfkfbsip2
😱😡🤬💕😙😪👅🐷👄👁🤩🤩🤩
The audio cable was probably a parent anoyd by the soud of it so it pulled it out
Next -- "I add and circuit breaker into speaker line".
Most other restore videos: *Dumps the buttons onto the table*
This guy: *Plays Operation*
A true artisan is among us
Yep
You mean most restoration vids dump the buttons onto the table.
I dono
Phyterion+ Most restoration videos don’t dump the buttons on the table. Are you stupid? Have you even watched any other restoration channels? They all stay organized just like him. Know your facts
@@S.N.12280i. yes, that's what he said. 😑
12:30 is like "Maybe I shouldn't have fixed the speaker."
FokkerBoombass in the 90’s i had a similar tetris device which i silenced exactly how this one was silenced. My guess is the wire was disconnected intentionally.
I got a two unskipable adds
spider scat go to the bottom left of your screen, press the i inside of the O, press stop seeing this ad, keep pressing shit till the ad stops being an ad. no more ad
it doesn't work all the time but it works most of the time, which is good enough for me, idk why this works but i haven't seen a full ad on youtube for atleast a week so im happy
Sfs Aviation jeez you can’t sit through 30secs??!! it’s supporting his channel? damn....
Live Your Vision am i supposed to feel guilty? fuck off, that 30 seconds could be spent doing literally anything other than watching wallmart explain to me why i should shop at their shitty store
Someone: sells something as junk
This dude: hold my alcohol and soapy water
lol true
Hold my duck
And my Ducktor 🤣
Watery soap* 😂
Only real Slavs will remember this, I remember having this and I played this FOUR HOURS, no joke I was playing this with my friends outside and we had so much fun, we didn't have PC's I only had NES or Sega ( how we Balkans call this and it doesn't have anything to do with sega genesis or any other sega console )
Thanks for memories.
Malaysian here. My parents forbid me & my siblings from playing with consoles, so they only allow this 'Brick Game' & Tamagotchi. But I gotta play some MS DOS games when my brother snuck them in the family PC lol
American here, I clearly remember having this as child too.
I used to have something really similar to this thing called the pro 200
Sri Lankan here. Like you, played this game for hrs with my friends back when I was young. Hard to believe though, the ones we had were the good quality devices. The ones being sold now are of extremely low quality, reproductions with clunky buttons and thin and badly moulded plastic surfaces.
Im Balkan, nice to meet you, from Albania, i still respect you if your from Serbia.
Man, it sold so much in Brazil, there wasn’t a child who didn’t have one and there were all possible colors.
And the best part is that it was all illegal lol
Why were these illegal?
@@AllTimeAmberx To sell toys in Brazil you need certification from a government entity, these saw direct from China, did not pay taxes, were not certified and were sold on street vendors, so everyone had one, they were cheap.
@@AllTimeAmberx They were smuggled from Paraguay illegaly, of course, and sold on the streets all over the country.
@@Backup_2 oooohhh!
@@4f52 did anyone ever get hurt by selling it illegally?
Everyone’s favorite part is when he removes the yellowing
Sorry, you can't predict everyone's favourite things, because everyone is unique.
yes
Nah, not everyone
10:13 Bruh... This is just straight out of "Avatar" movie right (the *James Cameron's movie* , not that Nickelodeon "anime" series yet...)
I love your sense of humor - you do a great job adding personality to these videos.
Man, this brings nostalgia so much. I still have two of these things lying somewhere in my house. Watching this video almost motivates me to repair them but I feel like it's more entertaining to look at you restoring it than me actually doing it lol.
This was "game boy" for the poor people back in the day.
Nah the Tiger wrist games
@Lightway Animated Pictures heyy reminds me AVGN haha
Poor people, but rich childhood!
Gameboy for black people
Every Eastern European kid would relate.
Nobody:
That smiley face on the console:
✌️😊✌️
the most wholesome comment ive seen somehow
why does it have 2 left hands
ChipyM they are actually right hands
@@fritzkeller5629 they are actually middle hands
@@mrmcfezz2727 they are actually X-Æ-W-S hands
I remember having to steal batteries around my house to play this thing
Watching the games come to life makes me feel so nostalgic. Thank you for making this video
7:05 - Yes, is time for the Ducktor!!! ...
7:10 - Wait there is NO Ducktor?... NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo
the hell is a ducktor?
@@therealtrue842
The Ducktor is epic, the Ducktor is life, just make a marathon of OddTinkering videos and I'm sure you'll find him 🦆🚑
But if you want a hint just look up the "yellow keyboard" retro restoration around the 7 minute mark.
@@sanjiko-skinner oh, it's a rubber duck.
cool
@@therealtrue842
Yeah 👌
Sanjiko Skinner ducktor is on vacation
I love how you bring these things back to life
I remember when I was a kid this is the only gaming device that my parents could afford for me, I still remember when they bought it for me because I’ve been asking for it because this brick game was so popular at our school almost every kid has it, I was so happy that time.
Thank you for having the audacity to actually repair a really cheap thing.
This, I felt it, memories kicked in really hard... I remember as a kid that I somehow ruined it tinkering with it and than the next morning I woke up by the sound of the game cuz my dad had fixed it for me... I miss him very much
Very heart touching comment dude... Although I've became father of 2 lovely kids and have my own family etc, i still feel like kid when i spent time at my parents house when i visit them.... I'm sorry for your loss,they say that time can cure everything but i just don't believe that shit :(
I know how you feel... I lost my dad when I was 12 and miss him every day.
*willing to give an Internet hug if you want one*
Ahhhh Yes I am a fan of the classics, including but not limited to...
*B R I C K G A M E*
Mine only says 9999
@@Kromiball 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮
Ok
I'm a Brick Game collector and I have ones that are:
single game
2 in 1
3 in 1
5 in 1
8 in 1
9 in 1
12 in 1
15 in 1
16 in 1
118 in 1
138 in 1
154 in 1
156 in 1
177 in 1
238 in 1
256 in 1
576 in 1
668 in 1
999 in 1
1997 / 1998 in 1
2000 in 1
9999 in 1
I do actually have a 9999999 in 1 but not in working condition unfortunately. All in all I have about 50 Brick Games but am looking to expand my collection with a 160 in 1, 300 in 1, 500 in 1, 3000 in 1 and more, including different variants of 999 in 1 and 2000 in 1!
Woooooooo00oooooooow *clap clap clap clap*
The Gameboy for poor kids.
The de-yellowing bath still amazes me.
my mom used to love these brick games in the 90's, she was a very good tetris player
Have her try or see Tetris Effect.
She might enjoy that.
He reminds me of the toy cleaner guy in toy story 2 lol
I love it when you restore old games. Who else agrees with me? 😂
What's with the laugh
I enjoy these but I'm not on the floor laughing my guts out
Yeah vintage electronic restores are always fun to watch
I prefer this than restoring those other old items
Zubayer Hossain maybe that person just likes to put laughing emojis - no need to take things so seriously/literally.
Totally agree.
This was the only pocket game available where I am from and it usually stopped working in just a few months.
The screen would start getting blurry and the sound would eventually go.
Good old memories..
And I always played it in silent.
Thank you for restoring my childhood memories man!
HOLY HELL IT'S THIS THING I THOUGHT I WAS IMAGINING IT
Finally I can say: "I had one of those"! Haha
Well. I can say it about hand drive drill... That much more rarely. XD
Anísio Filho me too haha. only mine was dark blue.
Had one too X)
Dito
We all had one of those
This takes me back to the time when having a brick game was everything.
ahah i know
I Had one of these back in the 90's, they were everywhere in the street markets, cheap and fun instant Tetris that had some mini games like racing and such.
I had one of those back in 1997. Good ol days. As a little kid in the 90's this seemed like the greatest thing ever.
I had one that was styled to look like an iphone. The brick shooting game was my favorite.
Oh, those were the times. Now time is no more.
Evangelos Killer mike naa the old games are better than the new ones this is a proven fact (in other words by proven fact I mean not proven but it’s my opinion)
Hey, I just thought you should know - but a channel named Best Relaxing ASMR is stealing your videos and claiming that it's theirs. You should probably report their channel.
love your videos btw
I reported them. I hope others do too.
I checked out their channel they litterally stole everything but changed the name.
Could be him though, I don't know.
@@Dr-Orange I doubt it
Reported them too
The fact that it still works.. I bet games like this now a days wouldn't make it past 5 years 10 if it's lucky. Man, this brings back so many memories growing up. 😢
Ahh! I had one of these when I was younger! Tons of fun and hours played on it. I loved listening to the KALINKA theme it had for the Tetris mode. ^_^ Thanks for saving one of these games.
Hey Odd Tinkerings there is this channel called "best relaxing ASMR " and they have stolen many of your videos and passed them off as their own
Reported them to youtube for impersonation
REEEE
Sniiiiitch! 🤣
@@GeneralMartok00 no its copyright abuse
@@GeneralMartok00 also, if honour is your code, Klingon, arent you breaking it?
**happy Tetris noises**
Absolutely incredible. I feel like this would be a good starter restoration for people who are looking to get into this kind of thing. Also, just out of curiosity, do you reuse your hydrogen peroxide?
For the longest time, I was trying to remember what handheld it was my dad owned when he was still around. After watching this episode, you've basically helped me remember. He didn't really let me play it, but I snuck my chance when I could because he was an arrogant you-know-what and I was a bored kid that didn't like going outside in an area where mosquitoes and hornets would tear your skin apart in the summer (and, despite being near the woods, we weren't allowed to play in the woods because he couldn't see us, so we had to risk sunburns, too).
oh my god!!! i had one of these and i was searching for the name of this thing for EVER. thank you for this ;;;
When you were expecting a game boy but your mom got one of these for you instead ://////
So satisfying to see something old, yellowed and broken made new again. Great video!!! (Jan Griffiths).
I remember having this throughout my childhood, it's nostalgic to see it again.
Dude that console omg 😱 giving me seriously nostalgic memories I just want to have on my hands on that thing again I’m literally about to cry for some reason
I had the exact same toy when I was a kid! My favorite game is the one with race cars where you have to dodge other cars on the track by going left or right. It progressively gets faster too. I have a lot of good memories with this toy. Really enjoyed the video!
You know, I know this guy who goes by 'The Mechanic' that will buy one of these for a whole Bitcoin!
Wow. That's about 40,000 dollars
Hello! I have an identical brick game as shown in the video, my grandpa gave me when I was a little kid (RIP) lots of great memories.
Awesome restoration, If I ever find it, I'll try restoring It using your video as reference :D
RIP your grandpa
When I heard the sound, it reminds me a lot of things. Thank you, merci.
I have discovered your channel when you have restaured the Game boy. I like your work.
5:01
Guy: remove those slowly
Me: *SMACK IT OVER THE TABLE*
Oh man, the memories come floating back on this one. I had this exact same device when I was a kid, and this is the first time I see it ever since. Not gonna lie though, I wanted a Game Boy though. I got one a couple of years later.
Man if i was able to send my broken 3ds, or my scratched screen wii u, i would be so happy
Same, but with my DSi :(
@@idleaccount531 DS lite for me. Cracked hinge. Or my NES and SNES for retrobrighting purposes.
I'd bring in my pacman plug and play because it keeps shorting and the wires won't work unless they are in a specific position
@@renefigueroa6309 oh GOD i know how u feel when you need to have the wires in a certain position. Its a pain in my anus.
Same but with all my gameboy games that the save battery died and my dads that broke in halve
Blast from the past!
I had one of these exactly the same
doyoulikebeetroot same here.
doyoulikebeetroot same. mine was dark blue.
"Let's try some weird Tetris"
You missed the chance to call it odd Tetris.
Love the passive aggressive knock at IPA beers every time you bring out the rubbing alcohol lol
Ooh I had one of these as a kid! Just looking at this I can vividly remember how the groove in the back feels against your fingers.
До сих пор лежит такая же на даче. Эх золотые времена.....
Как будто он на русском читает, но я тебя понимаю чел. Мне этот тетрис тоже нравится
И у меня похожий (начало 2000-х). И до сих пор работает, хотя я его запускаю раз в пятилетку. Как его угробить можно было😆😆
Кстати я на свой добавил выключатель спикера. )))
У меня дома сейчас работающая где-то валяется)))
Uhhh...
This reminds me of a joystick I used to own. It had tons of 80s arcade games on it that my family and I used to play.
Nostalgia: I got this thing when I was little and I played this thing so much that I forced anyone around me to play this game even if they didn’t want to. Good times
This video brought back so many memories of my childhood... Thank you 😊
Dad: What do you need a gameboy thing for, I bought you that other video game and you hardly touch it
Me: that thing sucks all the games are the same
Dad: well if it sucks then I'll take it
Me: plz no
Ah the negotiator
Ooooh, so excited. Needed something to relax to.
Alice Golden damn youre pretty lol
For $2 I can easily buy a brand new one, but to see some abused things got restored is really satisfying
I had this game several years ago ... It brings back some good memories. 16:50 I also do this on all plastic devices. Thankfully, I'm not the only one to do that.
I’m very much so a noob at this, but your videos have seriously inspired me to do my own restorations on games, controllers, and consoles.
I’ve owned one of this back in the 90’s. I was so good at playing Tetris. I discovered that when you hit 999,999,999 points. The score simply resets and the game only ends when you die.
That Nickle electroplating of the battery contacts shows you are one hardcore restoration ace.
OMG this video comes to me on youtube suggestions, but I love it! Its just bring back so much memory.
Haven't seen this since I got it as a Christmas present from school. The memories 😭
I remember when I was a kid that my parents promised me that they would get my a Game Boy Color for my birthday, but instead they got me this thing. I think it's needless to say how I reacted about it 😜😅
Let me guess, cried like a bitch and threw the thing on the ground
Lmao
Random Egg geez he was making a joke lol
@@hamdanahmed8751 in all fairness it's pretty shitty to promise a kid something for their birthday and then not get them the thing you promised.
Damn your parents were savage LOL
Se aprende muchísimo aquí! Gracias por tu sabiduría, saludos desde Uruguay 🇺🇾
There's a beautiful honest charm to these handhelds.
I had a game kinda like this in the mid 90s. Got it from a school Fundraiser. I always felt it was a step above the tiger handheld games.
Immediately added to my ASMR Playlist
Mom: I've bought a GameBoy, like you wanted!
Gameboy:
Another great restoration! Nice job! Respect for You!
3:38 I laughed louder than I should have
Also to be fair the sound effects are tolerable… the problem is the jingles (also for those who can't tell, there are three volume levels, hence needing to press the SOUND button several times to mute it)
I think that 'Brick Game' "consoles" are the most popular bootleg multi-game toys
I'm here for the de-yellowing too but I got hit by a wave of nostalgia when that tune blared up at 19:17 the neighbours kid had one of these back in the days, it was a hoot
Truth to be told, my Mom used to have a machine like this. To this day, after more than 30 years of introducing video gaming to her, Terits is still one of her best favour ( the only other one is Battle City from Namco ) and the only game that she is still playing. The only difference is that instead of a Chinese made knock off machine like this one, she has been upgraded to a pour owner of a Game Boy Advance as a gift from her favor son --- me XD
Your restoration should not really called a restoration. This is because after what you have done on it, I believe that it is in a better state than it was freshly from the factory
90's kid who had one of these because we couldn't afford a Gameboy, Nostalgia
16:50 Yup, been using that technique for years, i learned it from Hot Rod Magazine back in the day 😉
This thing is actually quite fun. My parents ran a dollar shop and they sold these ones. Since we already had a Mega Drive and preferred to spend our money on games for it, me and my brother picked one of these each for going to the beach and the pool. No sun reflection, the batteries lasted over a month, you weren't risking breaking an expensive thing and the games were surprisingly well implemented. A fun fact: some games might look the same but had different options, one Tetris might rotate left, other right, another would allow you to move after landing, another not, and so on.
0:41 That smile on the device makes my day
meanwhile ashens literally said when he chopped one up
'i have so many of these theyre literally worthless'
I remember playing these growing up. It was fun at the time. Glad this was given a second chance to play.
That’s crazy!! I had that exact same handheld! My parents bought it on a cruise ship when I was 6. You can never forget that awful repetitive music and weird Tetris options, makes sense someone would find a way to turn off that speaker permanently. But I still loved the hell out of that thing. lol
This is the most satisfying thing I could find on TH-cam, thanks.