"It's an interesting slice of history from a time where sanity was optional, unlike today where, of course, sanity is strictly prohibited." Now *that's* quote-worthy.
Somewhere out in the multiverse is a timeline where the Mega Duck actually beat the Game Boy somehow and this... thing ended up in schools everywhere worldwide.
and Mega Duck beat out and bought up all the other game companies eventually branching out and buying companies that made other media with them eventually becoming skynet and wiping out all of man kind.
N Gauge England -Synthematix- Not really, I thought the computer screen was actually pretty good! I mean it’s low-res and unbacklit but the pixels are sharp and the contrast is good, plus it’s fairly easy to see through the viewfinder.
When I was like 4, I had something-like this thing by VTech and the screen was about half the resolution. And the computer could sit on a lap of a 4 year old. Edit: like one 16th actually. And had a speaker that was like the GameBoy speaker with a rattle snake inside.
that's one long ass haul down the hall to the throne. you'd think she'd be a little more excited and have some pep in her step. owell, when your opening is longer than your two first levels, huh?
Okay I haven't seen it in the comments before, so as a Person who speaks german (I'm swiss btw^^), I'll translate the words you couldn't pick up yourself: 1. Rechtschreibung: spell check. You can put in one german word and it checks if you spelled it correctly. When you typed in an english word it says "Falsch Buchstabiert" which means "spelled incorrectly". Vorschlag means suggestion, so it recommends you the correct german word. So when you typed in the correct word it says " Richtig buchstabiert", which means "spelled correctly". 2. Bilder Wörterbuch: Dictionary with pictures. I guess you can put in certain words and it shows you a picture of this word....? You read the wrong word there it said "eingabe drücken" which is a different word than "drucken" and means something else because of the umlaut. It means "push enter".
Well, that's one way to make sure kids use proper punctuation (or would umlauts be grammar?); just change the word entirely if they get it wrong. German kids probably get better results in their German classes than British kids do in English.
"Rechtschreibung" is a spell checker. Bum isn't a word so it gave you Bombe as its guess for what you meant. When you got a sum wrong and said it spoke more than you expected, it said "Probiert nochmal" (Try again). "Melodie Wählen" is choose melody. Eingabe is input, and the error it was giving you was "Insufficient input" or something. No idea what the hell it was on about. I also notice Snake Roy is made by a company called "Sachen", which just mean "Things". What a great name for a company.
I actually have a Sachen NES clone, it played NES games pretty well. Came with a game called Skateboy which had the most obnoxious music ever. I bought that thing from a local gas station in Finland.
Sachen being a word in German is just a coincidence. They were a Taiwanese company mainly focused on developing unlicensed NES games; their Chinese name is 聖謙, which is more or less "Sachen" (ch ~= tsch) in Taiwanese Hokkien.
It's a pretty exact clone aside from a slightly BETTER video chip with 2 planes. So 4.2MHz Z80, 16K of RAM, simple sound chip, comparable to an early 8-bit home computer.
Honestly, I've seen pirate/home-brew Famicom carts with more functionality. Not being facetious, mind; I'm serious! Some of those Hong Kong multi-carts are right _brilliant!_ And… _their_ version of _BASIC works!_ (… because, it's a knockoff of _Family BASIC._ Derp.)
Blaze the Fox from what i can see the screen is actually misaligned, meaning that the bottom part doesn't have any screen in it, which is why it looks different
"Mega Press" ??? You know that drücken means something different than drucken right? Mega Druck would mean "mega print" so it's a little closer I guess.
Translating the 5th app thing out was hilarious "Word to be examined" Potato "Annotation" SPELLED WRONG "Suggestion" cup, goblet, or plate depending on how it's used
Hey, just 25 years earlier, this little baby would have had far more computing power than all of NASA, and possibly even more than all computers in the US combined. It's always important what you compare against.
„I‘m so drucking this“ You make us Germans happy, Stu. I tried to get my hands on some of the Hartung Consoles a while ago. Next to impossible and expensive. I respect your dedication to cheap clone hardware.
Since this has a crappy musical keyboard on it and an headphone out, the 8-bit Guy could make a 8-bit keys video about this thing. (I think he also said he can speak german)
If the screen can run 4 shades of grey it might work. I wonder what chip it is running. The gameboy knockof runs an embedded Z80 or 80080 (depending on the source (oh and it originally comes form Hong Kong
This reminds me of the "workboy"; a company called Fabtek had planned a keyboard accessory for the original gameboy, with an accompanying cartridge and stand. The cartridge would give the gameboy various PDA like features, including currency conversion, basic text storage, basic accounting software, and even a dialer which would autodial contacts by holding a phone's mouthpiece to the speaker.
We may laugh at it when compared to modern tech, but for what it is and it's age, this actually seems pretty cool. I would have been pretty excited to have one as a kid.
13:52 - "Hänschen Klein" A German folk song from about 1860. It sounds like this: "Hänschen klein, ging allein, in die weite Welt hinein. Stock und Hut, stehn ihm gut, ist gar wohlgemuth. Aber Mutter weinet sehr, hat ja nun kein Hänschen mehr. Darum besinnt sich das Kind, läuft nach Haus geschwind." (Short Version) It's about a wandering boy who ultimately returns to his mother because she misses him.
The makers of Snake Roy sure loved Bartók... used the Romanian Folk Dances as some of their background music. That's some competent music. Rare to hear that in a videogame.
It's ironic, but I actually thoroughly enjoyed that! It definitely has VTech connotations, but two things I did spot. First off, it has two channel polyphonic music in the game! It's a shame that the keyboard doesn't allow two tones to be played though. The other thing is that the BASIC programming editor, may only understand the German equivalent of the language commands, I.e RUN would probably be LAUF?
Don't forget Stuart, the Mega Duck was originally from Hong Kong by Welback Holdings (as you said four years prior to making this video), but Hartung did gain the license to create that super computer variant for whatever reason.
The music in King Roy for the opening sequences is a series of extracts from Romanian Folk Dances by Bela Bartók and the game end/start from Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker, a surprisingly sophisticated series of choices - given the Eastern European repertoire plus that this was made by a Berlin manufacturer I would hazard a guess that this has some kind of East German heritage before a newer incarnation as the MegaDuck. This may explain the clunky oddness, was this a product of a successor to VEB Robotron?
That thing looks like a VTech laptop had sex with a Game Boy in Germany. (the styling is VERY similar to the PreComputer Power Pad Plus I had when I was a kid, which sadly didn't have a musical keyboard built in.)
Given that A) Doom _HAS_ been ported to the TI-83 and TI-84 calculators, B) Both these calculators are powered by a Z80 or clone, and C) the Mega Duck also runs on an embedded Z80, it *SHOULD* be technically possible! ;)
@@BertGrink regardless of the CPU it is technically possible if it has a proper pixel addressable display like this. It wouldn't be fast obviously. The mega duck has either an Intel 8080 or a Z80 but there are conflicting claims even on the Wikipedia page.
Speaking of the snake game, anyone remember the old RM Nimbus pcs from school in the early 90's? they ran software for kids called smile disks? snake game was on smile disks, along with a cool game where you had to guide a train along a maze track by changing the numbered points/gates.
I've had a frustrating evening because one of my lawn tools refused to start and I'm mad about it, so now I'm watching a youtube video I've seen before and I know I like to feel better. Thanks Dr. Ashen!
Oh man that was driving me nuts! The music in the Snake Roy game is Ritual Fire Dance from "El Amor Brujo. I wonder if that was driving anyone else insane or if it was just me. (Well, up until it suddenly played the Nutcracker)
The intro music is from Bela Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances, No.2 "Peasant Costume" and during the next hallway scene we hear Dance No.4, "Mountain Horn Song". Incidentally, Bartok's music entered the public domain only in 2015.
I think Ashens has informed me more about old obscure PCs and cheap handheld hardware than anyone else on TH-cam. Also about what games to avoid when emulating any of those ( via his fantastic books ). I look forward to enjoying your videos over and over for years to come.
Och! Ze Brits have discovered our secret superkomputer! They may have solved our simple arithmetic problems and mastered ze drawing of diagonal Eichhörnchen...but they have not yet unlocked ze mighty power of ze printing of Snake Roy.
I REALLY wish something like this still existed in today's market. Like, load up minesweeper and solitaire into the games section, and obviously use the modern equivalent of the cheapest screen on market, and it'll be a pretty cool little kids PC. It'd probably be Raspberry Pi or something, but still, I like the concept.
"very low resoution screen" I think you're mixing with the Hartung Game Master, Stuart. The Mega Duck have a 144*160 pixels screen, which is the exact same resolution than the Game Boy.
@@bangerbangerbro Indeed. And it's black or white (pixel all on or all off) where the Mega Duck (and the Gamate, Supervision, and Game Boy) all have 4 levels of gray.
@@bangerbangerbro The Mega Duck came out before the Game Boy Printer. Mind you Stuart didn't really say when the Mega Duck computer came out, so we only assume that it was 1993 it came out, giving the date, so the printer must have come out at the same time or slightly later, meaning they came up with it first before Nintendo did as their Game Boy printer didn't come out till around 1998.
TBH Ashens - In 93 that would've been kinda cool... The fact that it actually has some functionality other than games makes it not as sheit as you are making it out to be.... I do agree that screen is a joke - however - again - functional... kinda...
Honestly, if i was younger, I would have thought this was the coolest thing every. I was born in the years of those Vtech laptops, so yeah, that stuff always fascinated me.
Well its very rare i find out about a system i wasn't aware of, but a Megaduck Laptop was definitely not something i saw coming, never realized it was made by hartung either, clearly their great success with the Hartung Game Master / Systema 2000 and of course the unforgettable Hartung Gameplus led them to doing wonderful things further down the line. I wonder if there was a Cougar Boy version of this, like there was for the handheld? Anyway cheers for showing this, less cheers for adding a new expensive thing to my "wanted" list now who's up for a game of Worm Visitor? anyone?
For: "die Amis": NO, the song at the end is NOT Soft Kitty, but Hänschen Klein, a German children's song. I know many people have already stated this, but I just wanted to clarify it as long as I remain top comment. And don't lose your shit about the word 'Anschluss'. All it means is 'connection'. Even today jokes about our darkest times are still present in German YTPs. Most (in)famously, when someone says a word that contains the 'Es' syllable, the syllable will almost always be repeated...
As mentioned it was german child song called Hänschen Klein, but as child music goes, it is pretty similar around the world, so it sounds quite a bit like warm kitty, soft kitty.
"Hold on, I'm going this." (Drucken means "to press" in German, according to translate). That screen as telling you to enter a word and press enter, and didn't say anything about printing. And that thing you couldn't figure out was a I'm pretty sure a spellchecker, It was telling you "Spelled correctly" or "spelled incorrectly"
Foolster41 nope "drücken" means to press something (e.g. a button), while "drucken" means to print (or that your spelling is bad or that your Umlaute on your keyboard are broken) And if we are already at it: ducken means to duck and finally Duck means either the same as in Howard the Duck resp. Duck soup or alternatively in case it is preceded by a "Mega" it means "really shitty crap. Avoid at all costs"
drücken means press indeed... and as in English (press) and Swedish (tryck), that's press as in press a button and press as in printing press. I also suspect the eingabe program was a dictionary; it asked for a single word to look up, and had he tried a correctly spelled German word it might have produced something.
"It's an interesting slice of history from a time where sanity was optional, unlike today where, of course, sanity is strictly prohibited."
Now *that's* quote-worthy.
Its in my fb quotes.
"Sanity is strictly prohibited". Reminds me of certain companies *cough* Apple *cough*
I think this needs to be quoted.
Perry Martin not only quote worthy. But relevant.
Sound Prachett-esque
Somewhere out in the multiverse is a timeline where the Mega Duck actually beat the Game Boy somehow and this... thing ended up in schools everywhere worldwide.
Diesel1919 And smartphones are DuckPhones. :-D
and Mega Duck beat out and bought up all the other game companies eventually branching out and buying companies that made other media with them eventually becoming skynet and wiping out all of man kind.
iDuck ProMax comes with 16 glorious colors
The reveal of that screen was ... sad.
Paul Johnson It looks way better than the normal MegaDuck’s screen though tbh.
@@justanotheryoutubechannel thats like comparing diarrhea with hard stools
N Gauge England -Synthematix- Not really, I thought the computer screen was actually pretty good! I mean it’s low-res and unbacklit but the pixels are sharp and the contrast is good, plus it’s fairly easy to see through the viewfinder.
When I was like 4, I had something-like this thing by VTech and the screen was about half the resolution. And the computer could sit on a lap of a 4 year old.
Edit: like one 16th actually. And had a speaker that was like the GameBoy speaker with a rattle snake inside.
Fiery Games Oooohh I had a console by VTech called the VSmile once! I remember it being a lot of fun honestly.
That's the most elaborate opening to a Snake game I've ever seen.
that's one long ass haul down the hall to the throne. you'd think she'd be a little more excited and have some pep in her step. owell, when your opening is longer than your two first levels, huh?
the tiny printer thing printing the menu with its tiny little whirrs was absolutely adorable
I used to call my mini dachshund adorable but she's dead now 😢
@@samholdsworth420not related to this comment but also very sad so I rate this reply a good 6/10 also my condolences to your Weiner dog 😢
Okay I haven't seen it in the comments before, so as a Person who speaks german (I'm swiss btw^^), I'll translate the words you couldn't pick up yourself:
1. Rechtschreibung: spell check. You can put in one german word and it checks if you spelled it correctly. When you typed in an english word it says "Falsch Buchstabiert" which means "spelled incorrectly". Vorschlag means suggestion, so it recommends you the correct german word. So when you typed in the correct word it says " Richtig buchstabiert", which means "spelled correctly".
2. Bilder Wörterbuch: Dictionary with pictures. I guess you can put in certain words and it shows you a picture of this word....? You read the wrong word there it said "eingabe drücken" which is a different word than "drucken" and means something else because of the umlaut. It means "push enter".
As an English speaker who is entirely unfamiliar with German, I would like to thank you.
Können Schweizer so gut Deutsch?
I don't speak German but I sort of guessed what the spell check was doing. TBH I thought it was a spelling practice thing of some kind.
Well, that's one way to make sure kids use proper punctuation (or would umlauts be grammar?); just change the word entirely if they get it wrong. German kids probably get better results in their German classes than British kids do in English.
Dankeschön!
Snake Roy looks like a good painting that’s been sabotaged by the woman who created Potato Jesus.
"Rechtschreibung" is a spell checker. Bum isn't a word so it gave you Bombe as its guess for what you meant. When you got a sum wrong and said it spoke more than you expected, it said "Probiert nochmal" (Try again). "Melodie Wählen" is choose melody. Eingabe is input, and the error it was giving you was "Insufficient input" or something. No idea what the hell it was on about.
I also notice Snake Roy is made by a company called "Sachen", which just mean "Things". What a great name for a company.
I read that as “sacan”, they extract (in Spanish)
I actually have a Sachen NES clone, it played NES games pretty well. Came with a game called Skateboy which had the most obnoxious music ever. I bought that thing from a local gas station in Finland.
Sachen being a word in German is just a coincidence. They were a Taiwanese company mainly focused on developing unlicensed NES games; their Chinese name is 聖謙, which is more or less "Sachen" (ch ~= tsch) in Taiwanese Hokkien.
@@HauntFishso Finland is like China and they don't care about intellectual property? Hehe
For being built from a Game Boy clone, it's surprisingly capable.
I'd be extremely impressed with it in 1993, but I didn't even exist back then.
It's a pretty exact clone aside from a slightly BETTER video chip with 2 planes.
So 4.2MHz Z80, 16K of RAM, simple sound chip, comparable to an early 8-bit home computer.
Honestly, I've seen pirate/home-brew Famicom carts with more functionality.
Not being facetious, mind; I'm serious! Some of those Hong Kong multi-carts are right _brilliant!_ And… _their_ version of _BASIC works!_ (… because, it's a knockoff of _Family BASIC._ Derp.)
All I want to know why the last three lines of pixels at the bottom of the screen look crystal clear and the rest of the screen is garbage 🤔
Blaze the Fox from what i can see the screen is actually misaligned, meaning that the bottom part doesn't have any screen in it, which is why it looks different
It's like a parody of those progressively more ridiculous Gameboy peripherals that he showed us a couple years back...
llamasandanime At least in name, it sounds like some sort of Chinese Mega Drive Wonder Swan knockoff kind of thing.😀
Hmmm
Wonder Swan - Mega Duck
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW
@@nrdesign1991 but the Mega Duck came before the Wonderswan though
@@Astolfo2001 I'm starting to believe that the Mega Duck was the first handheld console.
I want a snake roy remaster in 4k. I don't care if it is normal snake as long as they stick that face on the snake.
Somebody get this on Kickstarter!
Missed opportunity for not calling the printer "Mega Drück"!
Mega Drunk, more like..
"Mega Press" ??? You know that drücken means something different than drucken right? Mega Druck would mean "mega print" so it's a little closer I guess.
@@themonsterbaby its clearly dry american humour full of nonsensical stuff, nothing special´round here
Translating the 5th app thing out was hilarious "Word to be examined" Potato "Annotation" SPELLED WRONG "Suggestion" cup, goblet, or plate depending on how it's used
Pokal is used in modern German exclusively for a trophy, like the ones you see awarded to soccer teams.
Glad to have finally connected you with Snake Roy! This really is the most super of computers..
The Retro Future, in a thousand years when they dig this baby up they'll know how advanced were back now.
Hey, just 25 years earlier, this little baby would have had far more computing power than all of NASA, and possibly even more than all computers in the US combined. It's always important what you compare against.
You should have made this video.
I have!
Watching it now. Thank you. I personally think your videos are much better than this.
„I‘m so drucking this“
You make us Germans happy, Stu.
I tried to get my hands on some of the Hartung Consoles a while ago. Next to impossible and expensive. I respect your dedication to cheap clone hardware.
Germans are English basically
Since this has a crappy musical keyboard on it and an headphone out, the 8-bit Guy could make a 8-bit keys video about this thing. (I think he also said he can speak german)
Will the Megaduck Super Computer play Planet X-3?
Toasty Engineer probably not mut I think it would actually manage planet X in monochrome form.
If the screen can run 4 shades of grey it might work.
I wonder what chip it is running. The gameboy knockof runs an embedded Z80 or 80080 (depending on the source (oh and it originally comes form Hong Kong
Snake Roy looked like a genuinely competent little game. Which is not something that can often be said about games featured on this channel.
We heard you liked keyboards, so we put a keyboard in your keyboard
He should send this to 8 bit guy for a review of that majestic keyboard...
But wheres the keyboard on the keyboard on the keyboard?
@@TescoMealDeal571 alas, tis not _keyboards galore_
I can picture Stuart doing a great crossover with Techmoan.
Brad Hominem dude ive been saying this for years
Brad Hominem the most anticipated crossover
An excellent collaboration.
This
An excellent revival.
This reminds me of the "workboy"; a company called Fabtek had planned a keyboard accessory for the original gameboy, with an accompanying cartridge and stand. The cartridge would give the gameboy various PDA like features, including currency conversion, basic text storage, basic accounting software, and even a dialer which would autodial contacts by holding a phone's mouthpiece to the speaker.
We may laugh at it when compared to modern tech, but for what it is and it's age, this actually seems pretty cool. I would have been pretty excited to have one as a kid.
Knowing how expensive thermal receipt printers are, I wonder if that printer is more expensive than the 'super computer' laptop.
damn. ashen's with the musical grooves. can't spell "spielfunktion" without "funk"
The tune that was playing during the Snake Roy opening cutscene thingy was obviously Light my Fire by the Doors
"Hang on, I am so drucking this"
is this what the cool kids say these days?
13:52 - "Hänschen Klein"
A German folk song from about 1860. It sounds like this:
"Hänschen klein, ging allein, in die weite Welt hinein. Stock und Hut, stehn ihm gut, ist gar wohlgemuth. Aber Mutter weinet sehr, hat ja nun kein Hänschen mehr. Darum besinnt sich das Kind, läuft nach Haus geschwind." (Short Version)
It's about a wandering boy who ultimately returns to his mother because she misses him.
The makers of Snake Roy sure loved Bartók... used the Romanian Folk Dances as some of their background music. That's some competent music. Rare to hear that in a videogame.
7+3=🐓
Jax Nean sweet more eating.
Jax Nean HOW!? 😱
9, 10 a big fat hen!
This is why Dr Ashens lost his job at the university.
And 2+2=🅱
It's ironic, but I actually thoroughly enjoyed that! It definitely has VTech connotations, but two things I did spot. First off, it has two channel polyphonic music in the game! It's a shame that the keyboard doesn't allow two tones to be played though. The other thing is that the BASIC programming editor, may only understand the German equivalent of the language commands, I.e RUN would probably be LAUF?
It is the year 2030
Technology has gone so far as to confirm that there certainly WILL be King Roy 2.
Daruny Beoulve with the new Battletoads reveal anything is possible
"We have to aus it" - Ashens, 2018
I wonder how the MegaDuck ranks on the Top 500 Supercomputer list?
angryDAnerd Machines with negative tflops aren't listed.
It ranks #3 behind Earth and Deep Thought.
IT'S NUMBER ONE!
IT'S NUMBER ONE!
IT'S NUMBER ONE!
Number 769 and falling fast as they are no longer made...
do anyone know that this was released in german
Don't forget Stuart, the Mega Duck was originally from Hong Kong by Welback Holdings (as you said four years prior to making this video), but Hartung did gain the license to create that super computer variant for whatever reason.
Thank you Mr. Ashens for all your work. I appreciate it a lot
I'm 7 minutes in and I have never experienced such a joy that would compare to listening to Ashen mispronounce German words.
The music in King Roy for the opening sequences is a series of extracts from Romanian Folk Dances by Bela Bartók and the game end/start from Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker, a surprisingly sophisticated series of choices - given the Eastern European repertoire plus that this was made by a Berlin manufacturer I would hazard a guess that this has some kind of East German heritage before a newer incarnation as the MegaDuck. This may explain the clunky oddness, was this a product of a successor to VEB Robotron?
don’t forget De Falla ritual fire dance at 19:45
Favourite of every FDJ member and Thälmannpionier
I mean, I'm sure in 1993 this thing was leaps ahead in cheap technology for kids toys.
Honestly, if this was in English and I had one as a kid, I would've loved this thing.
Am I the only one who expected Stuart to play his intro on the Keyboard and then finish it off with a "Hello!"? XD
Snake Roy should be in a museum. It's breath taking.
That thing looks like a VTech laptop had sex with a Game Boy in Germany.
(the styling is VERY similar to the PreComputer Power Pad Plus I had when I was a kid, which sadly didn't have a musical keyboard built in.)
Someone needs to port doom to it
Given that
A) Doom _HAS_ been ported to the TI-83 and TI-84 calculators,
B) Both these calculators are powered by a Z80 or clone,
and
C) the Mega Duck also runs on an embedded Z80,
it *SHOULD* be technically possible! ;)
@@BertGrink regardless of the CPU it is technically possible if it has a proper pixel addressable display like this. It wouldn't be fast obviously. The mega duck has either an Intel 8080 or a Z80 but there are conflicting claims even on the Wikipedia page.
Dear Stuart:
Never say "Talk to me, senpai" ever again.
- Dr. Germany, inventor of Germany.
German humor is no laughing matter
You do know that "German humor is no laughing matter" is a very, very old joke, right?
MrArgus11111 They didn’t even understand OP’s joke so I highly doubt they are capable of humour themself.
*sempai
A Floyd No it is spelt senpai
Speaking of the snake game, anyone remember the old RM Nimbus pcs from school in the early 90's? they ran software for kids called smile disks? snake game was on smile disks, along with a cool game where you had to guide a train along a maze track by changing the numbered points/gates.
RUD3Y I remember them. You would only use them like twice a year!
Aw I wanted to see Armour Force
me too..now we will die without knwoing how it really was
Armour Force: Chanticleer Hegemony Part 2.
I've had a frustrating evening because one of my lawn tools refused to start and I'm mad about it, so now I'm watching a youtube video I've seen before and I know I like to feel better. Thanks Dr. Ashen!
'Who cares - it's in now', as the actress said to the Bishop.
See, this is what happens when we germans attempt this "humor" thingy...
Oh man that was driving me nuts! The music in the Snake Roy game is Ritual Fire Dance from "El Amor Brujo.
I wonder if that was driving anyone else insane or if it was just me.
(Well, up until it suddenly played the Nutcracker)
The intro music is from Bela Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances, No.2 "Peasant Costume" and during the next hallway scene we hear Dance No.4, "Mountain Horn Song".
Incidentally, Bartok's music entered the public domain only in 2015.
No, you're not the only one.
And the stage screen music is from The Nutcracker, If I'm not mistaken.
"The whole thing is in german and I speak no german whatsoever." This is gonna be fun
The Snake Roy cover is up there in the top 20 things that have made me laugh the most in my entire life.
I think Ashens has informed me more about old obscure PCs and cheap handheld hardware than anyone else on TH-cam. Also about what games to avoid when emulating any of those ( via his fantastic books ). I look forward to enjoying your videos over and over for years to come.
Och! Ze Brits have discovered our secret superkomputer! They may have solved our simple arithmetic problems and mastered ze drawing of diagonal Eichhörnchen...but they have not yet unlocked ze mighty power of ze printing of Snake Roy.
The voice of the computer sounds like one of those cursed sw number stations
I thought that too and the music is like the weird intros.
@@nooneinpart Coded instructions for the MegaDuck conspiracy's agents in the field
*Mega Duck Computer*
what
Squid Girl. :)
Idk too
oh no
I REALLY wish something like this still existed in today's market. Like, load up minesweeper and solitaire into the games section, and obviously use the modern equivalent of the cheapest screen on market, and it'll be a pretty cool little kids PC.
It'd probably be Raspberry Pi or something, but still, I like the concept.
You know.... You've reviewed too much electronic tat! Seeing this on my homescreen I thought, "Oh an old ashens video I've yet to watch!"
Same same, I thought it was a video I missed but was confused, since I've seen pretty much all his videos
I love these electronic tat videos haha. And food. Best types of videos
Michael Williams No such thing as too much electronic tat.
Of course the implication is not that he actually has too many videos; it is that he has SO MANY that i actually thought this was old.
POP STATION
I always wanted to get a kids fake laptop and put real hardware in it
@Michael Kevin Millet I kept seeing them and thinking they were modern Mac keyboards
I would probably buy one... Either that or one made in a tomato crate.
A piano possibly with basic? Seems like something for the 8-bit guy.
And it's a toy computer/keyboard too!
yes i aggree, this would probabaly more his thing and he would also be a better judge for this
He might butcher the computer taking it apart
Ashens - one of the most charming and comforting TH-camrs I watch.
I thought the only Megaduck was Launchpad McQuack
I am a proper twat.
I thought Launchpad McQuack was a pelican.
-Scott Pilgrim much?-
In this case it would most likely be „Quax der Bruchpilot“, as he is known in German.
Michael Parker obscure, to say the least
*hits a note*
Hang on...
*tries another one*
Hang on....
*two more*
Hang on...
Isn't that how they composed My Lovely Horse on Father Ted
I want a entire snake roy play through!
"very low resoution screen" I think you're mixing with the Hartung Game Master, Stuart. The Mega Duck have a 144*160 pixels screen, which is the exact same resolution than the Game Boy.
Lol the game master has like 64*64 or something right?
@@bangerbangerbro Indeed. And it's black or white (pixel all on or all off) where the Mega Duck (and the Gamate, Supervision, and Game Boy) all have 4 levels of gray.
They sould have named it the Giga Duck.
At least it has a headphone jack
Better than the iPhone 7
But can it run Crysis?
Can it run Doom?
can it run far cry!!!????
anything can run doom...except the snes oddly.
If you use one of those edson computer things to emulate a cartridge and have a program to upload the tiles etc.. does it count?
Thomas Jenkins don’t forget the 3DO, worst version ever.
Honestly the digitized speech caught me off guard because that was an exceptional rarity on the Gameboy...
I'm almost impressed.... maybe....
Thing's more kitted out than my 70's laptop...... more than 2 games?! Dammit I need one now!
Snake Roy versus Trogdor. Now that would be a fucking franchise.
...I get the mental image of Ashens doing a movie now, 'Game Child vs. MegaDuck'...
Haha .. when you switched to the gamed, your reaction was 1:1 what my students reaction is. "oh games!!! :D ... oh, ... math games :/"
Maths Games is an oxymoron.
Stuart can become the new Jean-Michele Jarre with the power of the MightyDuck and a laser pointer!
So Nintendo got their own back by stealing the printer idea from Megaduck's creators; Hartung. A fitting punishment. :D
Hartung was a manufacturer of the mega duck. They may have designed this version but they didn't design the original.
@@bangerbangerbro The Mega Duck came out before the Game Boy Printer. Mind you Stuart didn't really say when the Mega Duck computer came out, so we only assume that it was 1993 it came out, giving the date, so the printer must have come out at the same time or slightly later, meaning they came up with it first before Nintendo did as their Game Boy printer didn't come out till around 1998.
TBH Ashens - In 93 that would've been kinda cool... The fact that it actually has some functionality other than games makes it not as sheit as you are making it out to be.... I do agree that screen is a joke - however - again - functional... kinda...
Aww, it plays "Soft Kitty"
When is Skyrim getting ported to this?
I really wanted to hear the Ashens Theme during the piano section
“Ashens & the quest for the Mega Duck”
GORGI's World yes
Honestly, if i was younger, I would have thought this was the coolest thing every. I was born in the years of those Vtech laptops, so yeah, that stuff always fascinated me.
Well its very rare i find out about a system i wasn't aware of, but a Megaduck Laptop was definitely not something i saw coming, never realized it was made by hartung either, clearly their great success with the Hartung Game Master / Systema 2000 and of course the unforgettable Hartung Gameplus led them to doing wonderful things further down the line.
I wonder if there was a Cougar Boy version of this, like there was for the handheld? Anyway cheers for showing this, less cheers for adding a new expensive thing to my "wanted" list
now who's up for a game of Worm Visitor? anyone?
For: "die Amis":
NO, the song at the end is NOT Soft Kitty, but Hänschen Klein, a German children's song. I know many people have already stated this, but I just wanted to clarify it as long as I remain top comment.
And don't lose your shit about the word 'Anschluss'. All it means is 'connection'. Even today jokes about our darkest times are still present in German YTPs. Most (in)famously, when someone says a word that contains the 'Es' syllable, the syllable will almost always be repeated...
It does a million different things... and probably all poorly.
The cartridge art of Snake Roy reminds me of those African hand-painted movie posters.
i'd love to watch the entire screen get painted 24:00 cuz that would be awesome
Holy shit imagine being a 7 year old with snake roy instead of dr.mario and kirby’s dreamland.
I swear that last melody it played was "soft kitty"
Here in the US with had V-tech kid laptops that were similar to this in the 90s
yo dawg we heard you like keyboards
so you can play notes while you write -notes- NOTIZEN
This is going to read stupidly trivial, but when you put a semicolon at end of line 10 of your basic lines, it made me particularly happy.
"What a game,
What a man,
What a snake."
-Ashens, 2018
I just love how the thing corrects "bum" to "bomb"
Bum bomb 🍑💨💥
I guess a time bum would be a butt that farted when a timer counted down to zero
Lol, that is a friggin tiny screen.
This thing would've been kinda neat with a 2x larger screen(even if same resolution) and a better controller/mouse
I've been watching your channel for many eons now and I always hoped you'd get a copy of Snake Roy.. Now I sorta wish you hadn't.
lol!
*FINALLY*
I've been hoping you would do this one. I am so happy now
Was that "warm kitty, soft kitty"?
It was "Hänschen klein".
As mentioned it was german child song called Hänschen Klein, but as child music goes, it is pretty similar around the world, so it sounds quite a bit like warm kitty, soft kitty.
"What is it teaching me? It's teaching me how to hate". So pretty accurate to most school experiences then lol.
"Hold on, I'm going this."
(Drucken means "to press" in German, according to translate).
That screen as telling you to enter a word and press enter, and didn't say anything about printing.
And that thing you couldn't figure out was a I'm pretty sure a spellchecker, It was telling you "Spelled correctly" or "spelled incorrectly"
Foolster41
nope
"drücken" means to press something (e.g. a button), while
"drucken" means to print (or that your spelling is bad or that your Umlaute on your keyboard are broken)
And if we are already at it:
ducken means to duck and finally
Duck means either the same as in Howard the Duck resp. Duck soup or alternatively in case it is preceded by a "Mega" it means "really shitty crap. Avoid at all costs"
Of course they do ... just switch the localization of your keyboard layout. :-).
drücken means press indeed... and as in English (press) and Swedish (tryck), that's press as in press a button and press as in printing press. I also suspect the eingabe program was a dictionary; it asked for a single word to look up, and had he tried a correctly spelled German word it might have produced something.
That voice at around the 20 min mark I kept expecting Stewie to say :
" King ?"
" Well , I didn't vote for you !! " .