The "AP" on the Hyperspace game's price tag actually reads "ΔΡ" and it stands for Drachma (Δραχμή), which is the old Greek currency. 3200 Drachma would be about 7 British pounds, if you're wondering.
O.G. game boy was only 160 X 144 Game boy advance was only 240 X 160 with 256 kilobytes of RAM. Nintendo sure knows how to squeeze the most out of low powered hardware. But then we run into problems like Tears of the Kingdom chugging away because Nintendo also refuses to admit when it's hardware needs upgrades. Good old Nintendo, they're like my nonexistent uncle who still uses answering machine cassette tapes.
I'm a German official because our population of 83 million consists entirely of officials and I can neither deny or confirm we are secretly building a space castle. On our continent in space. That can jump to hyper space if you solve a maze. Nope, neither deny nor confirm.
josh kirby Bears on unicycles armed with nuclear weapons. But I've heard they are working on a weapon based on dropping colourful cube-based shapes at people.
+HypnoLama +Badatstuff its just so jarring, like it feels more like "ok so tetris had a traditional russian song that often has religious ties we gotta find one for OUR game" and they just did it
like when i first heard it i was trying to remember the 90s so i thought that i broke the universe ( since i was born in 1992 ) and caused hava nagila to be a tune played in tetris game lol...but yeah its really weird that they used this melody
The music on the Tetris clone is actually a version of Hava Nagila. It's pretty close (if not spot on for what it is) too. The part you thought was random is actually in the song.
I am living in Berlin and I actually know that company. It is amazing they published stuff like this back then. I newer knew they did something like that. They are actually a quite traditional toy company selling wooden hand made toys like swords, shields and miniature castles and stuff. If you ever get to visit Berlin make sure you check out their store. It's located conveniently close to the city's centre and the main touristic attractions.
Ya know...This system didn't seem THAT bad, at least the screen had minimal ghosting lol. Great stuff Ashens, always super interesting to see obscure goodies like this!
Why the fuck is that game called Hyper Space?! What does it have to do with Space or Hyper in any form, apart from literally existing in our universe?!
+Kyla Hislop It's funny how everyone wanna attribute that thing to Hartung, when there is no evidence whatsoever that they were involved in this thing. Aside from the obvious fact that they sold it. The first to have sold this monstruosity could have been Systema, or Videojet, or who know else.
Incidentally I don't think any german would fail to reconize Hava Nagila though. I grew up with that song, my parents learned how to sing/play it in school. While a lot of that is post war education making sure to make judaism relatable in order to prevent anything like the horrors of Nazi Germany happening again I'm glad that jewish culture remains a part of modern germany.
This console came out at the same time as the Atari Lynx. *Think about that for a minute.* The resolution is marginally higher than a Sinclair ZX81 and the games are of comparable quality. In fact, the whole thing has an incredibly "early 80s" feel to it; not just the specs, but the amateurish feel to the games. It probably would have looked impressive in 1983; next to the Game Boy in 1990... not so much. Let's not even compare it to the Lynx. The packaging, artwork, everything about this screams cheap and nasty. It makes Jack Tramiel's shoestring marketing of the Lynx look positively extravagant. FWIW, I suspect Nintendo secretly funded this to make the Game Boy look better. (#) Hint for those who weren't around at the time; the ZX81 was *not* considered a red hot games machine even in its heyday.
In 1991 a Game Boy was 160 DM with Tetris, the Game Master was 100 DM with a pack-in game. A Lynx was 200-300 DM, don't really remember, with Blue Lightning(?). A Game Gear sold for 250 DM with a 4-in-1 Cartridge in 1994. I think, the Super Vision was sold for 130 DM. The exchange rate with Euro was 1,95583, so just divide the prices by 2. That's without inflation, of course!
The music to 'Falling Blocks' is the jewish folk classic 'Hava Nagila'. You'd probably be glad there's a headphone jack when you're sitting in a public transport with this console.
Those are some exciting sounding games on the back of that one's packaging... "Go Bang Game" "Pin Ball" "Dungeon Advanture [sic]" "Continental Galaxy" LOL.
Pretty sure the unknown currency is Drachmas which was the Greek currency before the euro was introduced back in 2000 or so. The "game" today would cost around 8 euros or so without inflation adjustment.
I just realized solder is actually pronounced solder in British English. Good, when I discovered as a kid it was pronounced sodder by America I was slightly annoyed, I always thought it was supposed to be actually pronounced the way it was spelled. I'm Canadian by the way.
The music in "Falling Blocks" is a traditional Jewish tune. "Hava Nagila". So when they thought "traditional Russian tune", they at least got "traditional" right... Hmm...
Jesus, what horrible things have they done to that d-pad? Is that ergonomically designed for the elephant man? That design should be illegal. Although the resident evil chainsaw controller did something sorta similar.
I'm actually kind of impressed. Most of these knockoff Gameboys seem to have basically no play value at all, but someone was at least trying with this thing. Not very hard, mind you, but they were trying.
I have had one of these since I was a kid, with quite a few of the games. I still have it though it only works intermittently now. I remember it cost $80 when a Gameboy at the time was $200. Hyper Space was actually my favorite game. Continental Galaxy and Space Castle were also good. I'm pretty sure when you finish Space Castle the completion screen says 'CONGURATION'. Bubble Boy is a playable Dr Mario clone, and Car Racing wasn't too bad. Go Bang is broken, there's a sequence you can play and the machine responds the same way every time which means you can't lose. Kung Fu is just dreadful. The Gameboy price dropped to $150 some time later and I remember frantically getting my mum to call around town and drive me miles to pick up literally the last one in stock. It was like upgrading to an Oculus Rift.
Why in hand held gaming gods name does this require 4 double A batteries?!?! The tomagachi that came out a couple of years later used the same dot matrix screen...and ran on WATCH BATTERIES! The way this screen works is insanely simple actually, and this system most likely has no processor of any sort, it's all just signals going to sections of the screen and that's it.
For anyone who is wondering, Ashens is claiming that the cover of Continental Galaxy looks like Andrei Khrzhanovsky's "Glass Harmonica," a film that was made in the late 60s and generally circulated post-Glasnost. You can find it on TH-cam.
"Gourmet" that word, i believe airlines don't know what it means. Then again with all the air pressure your taste is messed up, so maybe airline food tastes good, on the fuckin' ground
Yee Macghyee They actually design those meals with the altered tastebuds in mind. So apparently there is only so much they can do. Especially since they have to take various variables into consideration, like the enclosed cabin with no air flow (Those air nozzles do nothing!), so they can't have very aromatic foods since they can be nauseous in closed spaces. Though personally, I think they still smell quite a bit. I'm not big on flying... especailly in recent years where I've been actually getting airsick, which is a bizzare experience. I went from a little kid that would yell cowabunga on lift off and enjoying looking out the window. To a shambling mess ready to throw up at no given notice. Even if it is two hours after landing during a shuttle ride (Good thing I take some airsickness bags with me when I get off the plane)... where was I going with this? Oh right, food smell. The smell does not help at all with airsickness.
Hmmm, a system i haven't heard of, very interesting indeed. I know you mentioned it but the carts really do look identical to Supervision ones, as does the packaging right down the the little bags the carts are in, i wonder if they just bought the moulds etc to save money? If that's the case it's suprising they didn't just rebrand the hardware too keeping the games compatible. The system seems to have a number of game gear esque styling cues aswell, very interesting, i shall add it to my list of wants, curse you Stuart Ashen for wasting even more of my hard earned currency! And how did you miss the words "slide the game pack partridge" in the hyperspace instructions! good lord man, you're slipping After a little research i think the upright version you mention at the end is the Game Plus, it's software compatible but the plastic of the carts is slightly different so they don't actually fit, despite the boards being identical
i am pretty sure that the supervision and the game master are done by the same company. a large number of supervision games are made by a company called bon treasure. while the game master was not released in america, it was trademarked by a bon treasure industrial co. ltd. a few game master games also bear a copyright screen crediting bon treasure. finally, there are indications that watara was actually just a brand name, since the only thing they seem to have ever done and/or marketed is the supervision hardware itself. maybe i’m wrong, but i’m pretty sure watara = bon treasure. hartung, just like videojet in france and systema in the uk and virella in italy, was just a licensor. they just happened to be the first ones to license it.
If anyone ever wondered for some unexplained reason, The price tag is in Greek letters, which translates to the ''drahmes'' ( pre Euro) Greek currency. By the way this costed the equivalent of 2 packets of cigarettes back in the day. Bb now.
The German title of Continental Galaxy translates to "Red Alert: Invasion in the solar system". And now I'm not sure if this canonically is the first installment of the "C&C: Red Alert" series.
Actually Stuart this game comes from Greece and it used to cost 3200 drachmas (ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ in greek). Which is an absolute surprise to me because I'm a 34 years old Greek, and I have never ever seen a Systema 2000/Game Master around here. Hell, I had never even heard about it up until now!
The song in the Tetris knockoff is Hava Nagila, a Hebrew folk song. The German title of "Continental Galaxy" reads Alarmstufe Rot: Invasion im Sonnensystem - Red Alert - Invasion in the Solar System. Mighty creative translation that.
There was a version of the SuperVision, with one of those knurled control joystick things that you turned clockwise or counter-clockwise to steer. It looked like a GameBoy. I've only ever seen one once. I don't think they sold many. Trying to hold it, steer with left hand and press buttons with right hand was a proper faff on.
It looks like a Game Gear (even the games look just like Game Gear games), which is funny because in Japan the Game Gear came out in 1990 but in the rest of the world it didn't come out until 1991 or 1992
Dear Ashens, the game @4:25 is priced at Greek Drachmas (that was before the euro) and is about 10 euros in todays moneys...( i dint know they had these games here back then...)
Looks about 5-10 years behind the original Game Boy. But it's definitely MUCH more advanced than Tiger games or those cheap Popstation things from China.
The "AP" on the Hyperspace game's price tag actually reads "ΔΡ" and it stands for Drachma (Δραχμή), which is the old Greek currency.
3200 Drachma would be about 7 British pounds, if you're wondering.
+A Thought I saw a delta.
The scientist in me wants to make a joke about the change in pressure represented by Delta-P, but it's 2AM.
+A Ah no wonder I felt like ive seen this ΔΡ thing.
Though I find it funny that these stuff were sold in Greece...
+Neko Well here in greece we had many of those stuff in stores...XD
GREGG DIMITROLL I know right?
I live there :D
A GBc game costed way too much back then...
Neko Are you Greek?
Great Ashens. I tried to remember 1990 and now there's a crack in my wall.
+The Captain There isn't an eye looking through it is there?
it's a glory hole
+Poison Berry Eating Aleks Anything is a glory hole if you try hard enough.
+The Captain Prisoner Zero has escaped?
You're gonna need a Doctor for that headache the Rift... I mean Crack will cause you.
64x64 pixels is a single boss sprite in RPG Maker.
O.G. game boy was only 160 X 144
Game boy advance was only 240 X 160 with 256 kilobytes of RAM.
Nintendo sure knows how to squeeze the most out of low powered hardware. But then we run into problems like Tears of the Kingdom chugging away because Nintendo also refuses to admit when it's hardware needs upgrades.
Good old Nintendo, they're like my nonexistent uncle who still uses answering machine cassette tapes.
@@Boogie_the_catNintendo is evil stop giving them money 🤑
@@Boogie_the_cat You know it's being cheap and not resourceful when even the thing made exclusively for your tech can't run properly.
@@Boogie_the_catwhy are you everywhere and you never respond to anyone calling out your bullsh!t 😂
Please boogie off and shut the hell up
Also my penis is bigger than that Sprite!
I'm a German official because our population of 83 million consists entirely of officials and I can neither deny or confirm we are secretly building a space castle.
On our continent in space.
That can jump to hyper space if you solve a maze.
Nope, neither deny nor confirm.
+Aaron Idstein the americans wanted to build a real death star
+Ben Paul Said *as if* the Americans didn't actually build a Death Star.
Like how Russia consists entirely of bears on unicycles?
josh kirby Bears on unicycles armed with nuclear weapons.
But I've heard they are working on a weapon based on dropping colourful cube-based shapes at people.
+Aaron Idstein As an American, I can ALSO not deny or confirm that we are building a giant Game Child to live in after we destroy the earth.
The tune is Jewish Klezmer classic, Hava Nagila.
+JeridanCork
A shitty, speedy, digital version but still Hava Nagila.
Hava Nagila
+AngelusBarney possibly mind control by the Elders of Zion...
That was the first thing I noticed about the game!
"This isn't music. This is a child slapping on a keyboard."
Will the persecution never end for the poor Jews? XD
are you serious
did they seriously use havah nagila for the knockoff tetris's music
It's no worse than Tetris itself using Korobeiniki.
+HypnoLama +Badatstuff its just so jarring, like it feels more like "ok so tetris had a traditional russian song that often has religious ties we gotta find one for OUR game" and they just did it
+Chronoteeth
It weirded me out, mainly because it took me a few seconds to place it for some reason. Then I just got confused.
like when i first heard it i was trying to remember the 90s so i thought that i broke the universe ( since i was born in 1992 ) and caused hava nagila to be a tune played in tetris game lol...but yeah its really weird that they used this melody
+Badatstuff How is Tetris using Koribeiniki bad though. It's a Russian song used in a Russian game.
The position of that D-Pad makes me retch.
Agreed
Refreshing the sub box is a monotonous but eventually rewarding way to waste your finite time in existence.
Better than spending all your time here in your garage.
+James Barker Not as rewarding as knawledge tho.
But do you know what I like more than materialistic things? Nothing, ha! I'm rich, did you really think I cared 'NAWLEDGE'?
+James Barker
I'm still waiting for you to sell your property in Beverly Hills to me, Tai.
+Fluff Oh gawd
The music on the Tetris clone is actually a version of Hava Nagila. It's pretty close (if not spot on for what it is) too. The part you thought was random is actually in the song.
Of course the Jewish would make something so horrible 😂
I am living in Berlin and I actually know that company. It is amazing they published stuff like this back then. I newer knew they did something like that. They are actually a quite traditional toy company selling wooden hand made toys like swords, shields and miniature castles and stuff. If you ever get to visit Berlin make sure you check out their store. It's located conveniently close to the city's centre and the main touristic attractions.
Didn't Hartung also make chess computers? Auf jeden Fall nicht nur Holzspielzeug!
This is what I'm talkin' about. Some good old fashioned crap handheld reviews. Love it
It's like we've stepped into the ghost of ashens past
Yee Macghyee I know! Reminds me of the good old days when I first stumbled upon this channel
do u work at boston pizza?
"There was the MegaDuck, which had the greatest name of any console."
WonderSwan says "hi."
insert the partridge......
lol
+ScottishGeeks came looking to see if anyone else noticed this, was not disappointed.
+ScottishGeeks AHAAAAAAAAA
Into the pear tree.
+ScottishGeeks Ladyboys
Here I am in 1989. Pre order cancelled.
Ya know...This system didn't seem THAT bad, at least the screen had minimal ghosting lol.
Great stuff Ashens, always super interesting to see obscure goodies like this!
Why the fuck is that game called Hyper Space?! What does it have to do with Space or Hyper in any form, apart from literally existing in our universe?!
You must get the other supervision model? You bloody had my one for over two years :D
+Larry Bundy Jr And I swear the other model is the one he used in his video on the system! Must've been yours in that video, then.
+Larry Bundy Jr Yeah, and it's not like he didn't already make a bloody video with it 6 years ago. :D
Hi guru Larry x
+Larry Bundy Jr Who knows? he may end up buying a version that isn't by Watara? :D
David315842
Mine is a quickshot version.
'"Falling Blocks needs some music that sounds russian folk songy"
"Sure thing, boss. Hava Nagila will do the trick"
Sees "Continental Galaxy 2020" in 2020, wonders why we are still not in hyper space
instead we got covid
The irony of having Hava Nagila playing on a German system wasn't lost on me ;)
+Kyla Hislop It's funny how everyone wanna attribute that thing to Hartung, when there is no evidence whatsoever that they were involved in this thing. Aside from the obvious fact that they sold it.
The first to have sold this monstruosity could have been Systema, or Videojet, or who know else.
+LeSarthois Haha ok. I was just cracking a joke. I don't know the ins-and-outs of this console's history :)
+Kyla Hislop Oh yeah, I kinda got it now :p easy joke ^^
Incidentally I don't think any german would fail to reconize Hava Nagila though. I grew up with that song, my parents learned how to sing/play it in school.
While a lot of that is post war education making sure to make judaism relatable in order to prevent anything like the horrors of Nazi Germany happening again I'm glad that jewish culture remains a part of modern germany.
This console came out at the same time as the Atari Lynx. *Think about that for a minute.*
The resolution is marginally higher than a Sinclair ZX81 and the games are of comparable quality. In fact, the whole thing has an incredibly "early 80s" feel to it; not just the specs, but the amateurish feel to the games. It probably would have looked impressive in 1983; next to the Game Boy in 1990... not so much. Let's not even compare it to the Lynx.
The packaging, artwork, everything about this screams cheap and nasty. It makes Jack Tramiel's shoestring marketing of the Lynx look positively extravagant.
FWIW, I suspect Nintendo secretly funded this to make the Game Boy look better.
(#) Hint for those who weren't around at the time; the ZX81 was *not* considered a red hot games machine even in its heyday.
+NotATube
Plus, this handheld looks like it was made in the Soviet Union rather than Germany.
Ivan Simpson i keep thinking it must've been east germany
I don’t think the ZX80 and 81 really had a heyday
didn't nec turbo grafix and gamegear come out in 1990?
In 1991 a Game Boy was 160 DM with Tetris, the Game Master was 100 DM with a pack-in game. A Lynx was 200-300 DM, don't really remember, with Blue Lightning(?). A Game Gear sold for 250 DM with a 4-in-1 Cartridge in 1994. I think, the Super Vision was sold for 130 DM.
The exchange rate with Euro was 1,95583, so just divide the prices by 2. That's without inflation, of course!
Just noticed that the instructions for Hyper Space refer to a "game pack partridge". Sounds like the format on which we'd find Chanticleer Hegemony
The music to 'Falling Blocks' is the jewish folk classic 'Hava Nagila'. You'd probably be glad there's a headphone jack when you're sitting in a public transport with this console.
The "Action Points" Are Greek Drachmas and 3200DR which is a whopping £6.40
gingergreek that's 6.40 more than it should be
The product? I agree
is it just me or does the Systema/Game Master look like a game boy in a game gear shell?
Looney Bird exactly what I was thinking
Those are some exciting sounding games on the back of that one's packaging...
"Go Bang Game"
"Pin Ball"
"Dungeon Advanture [sic]"
"Continental Galaxy"
LOL.
Pretty sure the unknown currency is Drachmas which was the Greek currency before the euro was introduced back in 2000 or so. The "game" today would cost around 8 euros or so without inflation adjustment.
This is the type of game console you’d see a character playing in a cartoon or something
"Slide the game pack partridge into the Game Master Unit..." Does it have to be in a pear tree, as well?
So far, for my birthday, all I have gotten is a video from Ashens.
Wait Ashes has uploaded at a sensible time for the Uk?! Yes!
I just realized solder is actually pronounced solder in British English.
Good, when I discovered as a kid it was pronounced sodder by America I was slightly annoyed, I always thought it was supposed to be actually pronounced the way it was spelled. I'm Canadian by the way.
+Caldera11 Muricans pronounce 'solder' as 'sodder' even though it clearly says 'solder' ?? silly Americans ☺
+TheBokkelul we have to rebel against the english anyway we can u see
+The Gmun Too bad we speak the same language...
+The TH-cam Game (Null Void) we are also too lazy to adopt a different language
The Gmun Ah yes, America: home of the free, land of the lazy
I forgot, and I _live_ here...
Wondered if maybe Ashen has uploaded a new video. Checked up the channel. New video was uploaded 45sec ago... Telepathy is a hell of a gift.
"No! You will come!" I lost it there, but I love seeing those old handhelds from the past, great bit of nostalgia and a nugget of info.
The guy's hat in Hyper Space cover made me think about DEVO, and that's PEP!
4:20 It was bought from Greece! These are 3200 greek drachmas (about 10 euros). lol
The music in "Falling Blocks" is a traditional Jewish tune. "Hava Nagila". So when they thought "traditional Russian tune", they at least got "traditional" right... Hmm...
I do appreciate your instant recognition of Soviet animation!
Hyper Space, reminds me of Mazogs on the ZX81 or Maziacs on the Spectrum.
+Steve Benway (Retro Gaming Collector) Why is it even called Hyper Space?!
Beats me :S
Sitting down to eat and realising you have a new video out is one of the best feelings ever
"It's like being in Bjork's refrigerator or something."
An oldskool Ashens video? Brilliant!
That finny price is probably Greek. Delta Ro standing for Drachmas?
Correct!
My Brother and I had one of these! I can remember having the games you showed. I was starting to think I imagined it! Thanks for the video!
Jesus, what horrible things have they done to that d-pad? Is that ergonomically designed for the elephant man? That design should be illegal. Although the resident evil chainsaw controller did something sorta similar.
7:18 "No, you will come [cum]!" If that line isn't used in an Ashens fan-fiction of some sort I will be severely disappointed.
The D-pad is angled like that because Nintendo patented the D-pad, and every other game console maker had to find ways around it.
Nintendo patented a certain type of d-pad. Having a d-pad that is a plus shape is not patented.
I'm actually kind of impressed. Most of these knockoff Gameboys seem to have basically no play value at all, but someone was at least trying with this thing.
Not very hard, mind you, but they were trying.
German Tetris with "Hava Nagila" as background music. Amazing.
So is the Space Castle French or is the player in a French spaceship?
And if you actually try to *sing* Hava Nagila to the version in that game, you'll probably run out of breath and pass out...
He adheres to a rather impeccable "Mint in Package" regime collectors would be proud of.
The song from falling block is an israeli folk song "Hava Nagela" XD look it up!
I have had one of these since I was a kid, with quite a few of the games. I still have it though it only works intermittently now. I remember it cost $80 when a Gameboy at the time was $200. Hyper Space was actually my favorite game. Continental Galaxy and Space Castle were also good. I'm pretty sure when you finish Space Castle the completion screen says 'CONGURATION'. Bubble Boy is a playable Dr Mario clone, and Car Racing wasn't too bad. Go Bang is broken, there's a sequence you can play and the machine responds the same way every time which means you can't lose. Kung Fu is just dreadful. The Gameboy price dropped to $150 some time later and I remember frantically getting my mum to call around town and drive me miles to pick up literally the last one in stock. It was like upgrading to an Oculus Rift.
Why in hand held gaming gods name does this require 4 double A batteries?!?!
The tomagachi that came out a couple of years later used the same dot matrix screen...and ran on WATCH BATTERIES!
The way this screen works is insanely simple actually, and this system most likely has no processor of any sort, it's all just signals going to sections of the screen and that's it.
It is now 2020, and Continental Galaxy is here!
Did they seriously use Hava Nagila?! hahaha
For anyone who is wondering, Ashens is claiming that the cover of Continental Galaxy looks like Andrei Khrzhanovsky's "Glass Harmonica," a film that was made in the late 60s and generally circulated post-Glasnost. You can find it on TH-cam.
The stuff on Steam Greenlight is certainly improving.
You started playing Falling Block and I got Vietnam-style flashbacks to my Bar Mitzvah. Thanks for that!
He went on a quest to find this 😂
wrong handheld
Popstation Watch has lowered my expectations so much I'm just amazed/happy that these games appear to be mostly functional.
Action Points? No no no.. That's obviously a Δ. So it'd be Delta Points, which is even more heinous! **
What do you think about airplane gourmet meals
"Gourmet" that word, i believe airlines don't know what it means. Then again with all the air pressure your taste is messed up, so maybe airline food tastes good, on the fuckin' ground
Yee Macghyee They actually design those meals with the altered tastebuds in mind. So apparently there is only so much they can do. Especially since they have to take various variables into consideration, like the enclosed cabin with no air flow (Those air nozzles do nothing!), so they can't have very aromatic foods since they can be nauseous in closed spaces.
Though personally, I think they still smell quite a bit. I'm not big on flying... especailly in recent years where I've been actually getting airsick, which is a bizzare experience. I went from a little kid that would yell cowabunga on lift off and enjoying looking out the window. To a shambling mess ready to throw up at no given notice. Even if it is two hours after landing during a shuttle ride (Good thing I take some airsickness bags with me when I get off the plane)... where was I going with this? Oh right, food smell. The smell does not help at all with airsickness.
Ryanair.
Nice to see a new "Pop Station" for Ashens! Well done, friend!
Hmmm, a system i haven't heard of, very interesting indeed. I know you mentioned it but the carts really do look identical to Supervision ones, as does the packaging right down the the little bags the carts are in, i wonder if they just bought the moulds etc to save money? If that's the case it's suprising they didn't just rebrand the hardware too keeping the games compatible.
The system seems to have a number of game gear esque styling cues aswell, very interesting, i shall add it to my list of wants, curse you Stuart Ashen for wasting even more of my hard earned currency!
And how did you miss the words "slide the game pack partridge" in the hyperspace instructions! good lord man, you're slipping
After a little research i think the upright version you mention at the end is the Game Plus, it's software compatible but the plastic of the carts is slightly different so they don't actually fit, despite the boards being identical
i am pretty sure that the supervision and the game master are done by the same company. a large number of supervision games are made by a company called bon treasure. while the game master was not released in america, it was trademarked by a bon treasure industrial co. ltd. a few game master games also bear a copyright screen crediting bon treasure. finally, there are indications that watara was actually just a brand name, since the only thing they seem to have ever done and/or marketed is the supervision hardware itself. maybe i’m wrong, but i’m pretty sure watara = bon treasure. hartung, just like videojet in france and systema in the uk and virella in italy, was just a licensor. they just happened to be the first ones to license it.
I like the little bags the games come in. Pretty neat.
I LOOKED BACK TO FAR I BROKE THE UNIVERSE EVRYTHING IS FROZENWE ARE ALL GOING TO DIIIIIIIIIIIE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"That game was liquid concentrated ass." I think Ashens just had an AVGN moment :P.
6:26
More like taking an old traditional Jewish song and remixing it while on crack.
I cast my mind back to 1990, and now there's an inter dimensional portal in my room. Thanks Ashens
"Continental Galaxy" - does it make sense if transliterated to German?
Nein. Nein, it does not... :)
"It's like being in Björk's refrigerator." Best Ashens line ever. :)
2 minuets in and someone already disliked. I hate the internet.
So you hate people having their own opinions?
+Digital its just random haters that dont have an opinion
CROpunisher!™ How do you know?
Hava Nagila is not a minuet.
Luuk Tijssen Maybe they dislike ashens, systema 2000 or something.
I kind of just realized Ashens' videos always has civilized youtube comment sections, shoutouts to all of you.
5:58
Replace Russian music with Jewish music. No one will notice, trust me.
For those uninterested, which is probably everyone: that Hyperspace game was bought in Greece, it sais DR 3200, DR (delta rho) for drachma
Any Notification people here?
+Gabriel Bagahansol nah bro im a twitter g
i am
Zen Masta Killa we are
Finally came through. My phone is really slow.
If you were wondering, Δρ stands for Δραχμες(drachma) 3200drachma is approximately 4471.91 Cambodian riel
I actually used to own this pile of crap.
TheMarkedOne Really? Did you enjoy it?
" i need to set a reminder to phone jack oh wait i have a *Systema 2000* !!!!"
Eeep, 666 views!
Lol the background music to falling blocks sounds like an old folk song called hava nageela... awesome video
This popped up on my suggested video lists. I'm glad it did. :D Quite entertaining!
If anyone ever wondered for some unexplained reason, The price tag is in Greek letters, which translates to the ''drahmes'' ( pre Euro) Greek currency. By the way this costed the equivalent of 2 packets of cigarettes back in the day. Bb now.
I noticed the first castle in Space Castle had the Uranus symbol (♅) on it. Are these levels supposed to take place at different planets?
I do wish you would do more reviews, Stuart, you're very good at them.
"Go Bang!!"
With a picture of a panda that looks to have just been banged.
The German title of Continental Galaxy translates to "Red Alert: Invasion in the solar system". And now I'm not sure if this canonically is the first installment of the "C&C: Red Alert" series.
Actually Stuart this game comes from Greece and it used to cost 3200 drachmas (ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ in greek). Which is an absolute surprise to me because I'm a 34 years old Greek, and I have never ever seen a Systema 2000/Game Master around here. Hell, I had never even heard about it up until now!
I was thoroughly disappointed at the lack of Ashens teaching us 2000 wonderful moves from the martial arts of my people.
Those German boxes are pretty cool; I could see collecting those like the Odyssey 2 boxed games.
Glad to see you're doing this again.
The song in the Tetris knockoff is Hava Nagila, a Hebrew folk song. The German title of "Continental Galaxy" reads Alarmstufe Rot: Invasion im Sonnensystem - Red Alert - Invasion in the Solar System. Mighty creative translation that.
There was a version of the SuperVision, with one of those knurled control joystick things that you turned clockwise or counter-clockwise to steer.
It looked like a GameBoy. I've only ever seen one once. I don't think they sold many.
Trying to hold it, steer with left hand and press buttons with right hand was a proper faff on.
It looks like a Game Gear (even the games look just like Game Gear games), which is funny because in Japan the Game Gear came out in 1990 but in the rest of the world it didn't come out until 1991 or 1992
I would say the cover of Continental Galaxy looks more like a 1970s progressive rock album cover.
Dear Ashens, the game @4:25 is priced at Greek Drachmas (that was before the euro) and is about 10 euros in todays moneys...( i dint know they had these games here back then...)
13:54 So, "Space Castle" is a NOT "Yar's Revenge", then? Good to know.
+Code7ULC This is more like the last stage of Phoenix or Demon Attack.
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Loved telling my parents to look out for the game magazine that should be arriving in the mail every month
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Congrats on a million!
Hyper Space reminds me of "Worker and Parasite", Eastern Europe's favourite cat and mouse team.
Looks about 5-10 years behind the original Game Boy. But it's definitely MUCH more advanced than Tiger games or those cheap Popstation things from China.