I love hearing about weird British and European games from the 80s and 90s. It's a dramatic illustration of how wide the cultural gap between the continents used to be.
seeing that gameboy retail box in a store when i was young in 1991, is the one thing i remember so clearly as a kid. its still my dream game console to this day (i have 3 DMG's now lol)
I'm italian and I remember very well the Supervision, damn! It was strongly adverstised as "even cooler than the Game Boy" but the story was another: it was crappier than the Game Boy! You can still find a lot of brand new cartidges on italian eBay stores today, but no one buys them because the Supervision can stop working at all with such incredible ease. In fact I have two models of them which none of them works anymore (they're crappy built), plus the A2Heaven multicart you mentioned: the first version, similar to the Game Boy, was the first ever to be distributed in Italy. It was similar to the french version but it was white rather than grey. Then they changed the shape into the model called "Quickshot Model" to avoid copyright issues from Nintendo. Some of the Supervision games appeared on the NES as unofficial carts in Asia and USA. In Italy we had also the Gamate, distributed by the toy company GIG, but it didn't last for more than a year. A total failure. Fun fact: a lot of italian eBay resellers are full with "new old stock" Gamate games, but it seems that a single working console can't be found in all Italy. Facts.
I didn't have an NES growing up. I didn't even have a crappy clone. My NES was made out of cardboard and imagination. It wasn't until 1990 that we got a proper home computer.
The "Game Boys At Home" from the 2000s were quite interesting I'd say... From cheap and $#!t popstations to weirdly kinda competent licensed ordeals and everything in-between... I remember in the mid-to-late 2000s some of them even had backlit colour screens! I had my fair few in the early part of the decade, but by that point I was SO over it and I'm so glad I convinced my dad to get me a Game Boy Advance SP instead, even though the DS and PSP were already out... I was on a budget, and the GBA was still getting new games at the time, and besides, New Super Mario Bros. and the DS Lite weren't out yet so...
Love your content, live in Norwich and are super proud to see someone local doing well! Got some feedback though. Please stop using stock video footage. It makes your content look super lazy and makes me think ‘why am I watching this’ It’s not worth the time you spend finding the clips. Good luck!
I asked for a GameBoy for Christmas, I got a Mega Duck. Honestly, I had fun with it. Not as much fun as I would’ve had if my parents had gotten my a GameBoy, but still, it passed the time on the backseat on the way to the grandparents just the same.
My parents originally bought my brother and I an Atari for the same reason you called out early in the video. The NES was expensive. The games were expensive. And our mom figured the Atari was the same thing, only a lot cheaper. Needless to say we got an NES a year or two later because the Atari was garbage at that point when compared to the NES.
grade school we all had tiger electrics like decks of cards trading them back and foreth at lunch break lol the king of the yard was the 2 player nintendo k.o. boxing with the little game pads that spooled out for 2 player.. that was the gem . its in the hands of a more careful collector now.
Gosh... I remember I had that Game Master at Xmas instead of a Game Boy and tasted that dissapointment... it was utter crap indeed, i'm suprised you can even find a working one today.
There used to be an officially licensed Game Boy bubble bath. It came in a Game Boy shaped bottle which had one of these water ring toss type games built into it. Before I got my own Game Boy playing with the bubble bath ones in Boots was as close as I could get!
I can't get past how horrible the sound is on all of these. I mean, the bleepy little Game Boy sound chip wasn't *that* great but it could make decent music. But all of these, the sound would get grating in a matter of minutes.
my dad got me a supervision! i literally had a gameboy at home but kept the supervision at our summer house.quite enjoyed playing the games on that thing too!
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Some of you have been waiting two years for the next video I'm working on: instagram.com/p/DAVnfmkIstC/
I love hearing about weird British and European games from the 80s and 90s. It's a dramatic illustration of how wide the cultural gap between the continents used to be.
"Do not touch golden finger with hand"..
I doubt Octavious would pay heed to that warning.
The golden finger would be handed into oblivion.
19:23 Batman - *AGH...AGH...AGH...AGH...AGH...AGH...AGH...AGH...AGH...*
Sorry but GAMATE in Greece would never work :D It's literally a form of the F* word in greek.
seeing that gameboy retail box in a store when i was young in 1991, is the one thing i remember so clearly as a kid. its still my dream game console to this day (i have 3 DMG's now lol)
From what I remember, Gaymates were very popular in the 90's. I had three (and since then, I found out it was actually five).
@DankPods would classify these as Grade-A Nuggets.
Smasnug
And @Ashens may well recognize Kung Fu on the Game Master as an ur-Popstation
I'm italian and I remember very well the Supervision, damn! It was strongly adverstised as "even cooler than the Game Boy" but the story was another: it was crappier than the Game Boy!
You can still find a lot of brand new cartidges on italian eBay stores today, but no one buys them because the Supervision can stop working at all with such incredible ease. In fact I have two models of them which none of them works anymore (they're crappy built), plus the A2Heaven multicart you mentioned: the first version, similar to the Game Boy, was the first ever to be distributed in Italy. It was similar to the french version but it was white rather than grey. Then they changed the shape into the model called "Quickshot Model" to avoid copyright issues from Nintendo.
Some of the Supervision games appeared on the NES as unofficial carts in Asia and USA.
In Italy we had also the Gamate, distributed by the toy company GIG, but it didn't last for more than a year. A total failure.
Fun fact: a lot of italian eBay resellers are full with "new old stock" Gamate games, but it seems that a single working console can't be found in all Italy. Facts.
Another Knock-Off Video that I’ve been waited for years.
OH CMON I WAS NEARLY THE FIRST COMMENT. haha :)
Game master
1/3 the price
1/4 the resolution
1/1000 the fun
2:07 "That's not how *Urban Champion* works!"
I didn't have an NES growing up. I didn't even have a crappy clone. My NES was made out of cardboard and imagination. It wasn't until 1990 that we got a proper home computer.
Watch out, Nintendo might sue you for that bootleg NES of yours.
Bought a original DMG GameBoy few months ago. Replaced the screen with an IPS one. And man, I love it!
Always nice to see a NN upload ❤
Tiger Handhelds 4 life!
I love Mortal Komba 😂
The "Game Boys At Home" from the 2000s were quite interesting I'd say... From cheap and $#!t popstations to weirdly kinda competent licensed ordeals and everything in-between... I remember in the mid-to-late 2000s some of them even had backlit colour screens!
I had my fair few in the early part of the decade, but by that point I was SO over it and I'm so glad I convinced my dad to get me a Game Boy Advance SP instead, even though the DS and PSP were already out... I was on a budget, and the GBA was still getting new games at the time, and besides, New Super Mario Bros. and the DS Lite weren't out yet so...
I never knew the Zilog Z80 and its clone, the Sharp SM83 in the Game Boy, were "knock-off Intel 8080 CPUs."
Gaymate 😂
Don't be gamate
thats actually how its pronounced, too. Like... Game-mate
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NN: "What is that? 1-second loop?"
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Background voice: "ʸᵉᵃʰ!"
Ah man, I had a Supervision (didn't work) and a Mega Duck (it was awesome!) ❤
Love your content, live in Norwich and are super proud to see someone local doing well! Got some feedback though. Please stop using stock video footage. It makes your content look super lazy and makes me think ‘why am I watching this’
It’s not worth the time you spend finding the clips. Good luck!
I asked for a GameBoy for Christmas, I got a Mega Duck. Honestly, I had fun with it. Not as much fun as I would’ve had if my parents had gotten my a GameBoy, but still, it passed the time on the backseat on the way to the grandparents just the same.
I would love a GameBoy rerelease with 50/60 of the top games preloaded on it like the S/NES Minis
I love how the artwork for Kill Shot would be fine for a regular vertical scrolling shmup. So naturally it was used for a Quarth knockoff.
My parents originally bought my brother and I an Atari for the same reason you called out early in the video.
The NES was expensive. The games were expensive. And our mom figured the Atari was the same thing, only a lot cheaper.
Needless to say we got an NES a year or two later because the Atari was garbage at that point when compared to the NES.
You have got to love the Supervision, it even features Robocops midriff after all.. :D Atleast the tiltable one did.
The game makers could not have benefitted from Squarespace as neither it nor web pages existed. Your segue was bad and you should feel bad.
the ShameBoy...
grade school we all had tiger electrics like decks of cards trading them back and foreth at lunch break lol the king of the yard was the 2 player nintendo k.o. boxing with the little game pads that spooled out for 2 player.. that was the gem . its in the hands of a more careful collector now.
and the megaman 2 tiger electric was popular
Gosh... I remember I had that Game Master at Xmas instead of a Game Boy and tasted that dissapointment... it was utter crap indeed, i'm suprised you can even find a working one today.
The Gamate reminds me of games and blur I got playing games on my Ti-83 calculator in High School.
Sorry... Did that Italian ad try to sell the Super Vision by saying you can play Alien... and be an astronaut? And show a space shuttle launch?
I still have my og gameboy, one of the most durable consoles ever made, after the Wii, which i still have as well.
So I'm taking it that the video game pub isn't working out and that's why you're now back to releasing videos?
that’s got to be a masterclass in how not to play Tetris. Truly impressive.
Nostalgia Nerd saving us from the Sunday night blues ❤❤
I went to the OXO Gaming museum in Málaga a couple of weeks ago and they had a section dedicated to bootleg game consoles lol
Great video about some terrible cheap handhelds.. 19:35 finishes with a close-up of a black child. bruh 😂
Found a Gamate in a fleamarketi n Dubai last month of all things. Doesn't work cause the screen is buggered but it's a thing.... I guess.
There used to be an officially licensed Game Boy bubble bath. It came in a Game Boy shaped bottle which had one of these water ring toss type games built into it. Before I got my own Game Boy playing with the bubble bath ones in Boots was as close as I could get!
"it plays more games than you idiots have brain cells!" is a quote that i hope Nostalgia Nerd will mention when he reviews the Game Com.
People forget that we had like five actual games and hundreds of clones back then ;)
Did cougar even have, the other meaning back then? Nice choice for music on the MegaDuck. :)
I can't get past how horrible the sound is on all of these. I mean, the bleepy little Game Boy sound chip wasn't *that* great but it could make decent music. But all of these, the sound would get grating in a matter of minutes.
we never had these and were mostly stuck with game & watch clones all the way to the gba sps and later psps
Shout-Out to Bad Influence Hosts who got into interest.
Imagine being the kid in the playground with the Gay Mate and no Gameboy.
You can bet that anyone unfortunate enough to own one, would definitely not be calling it a "gay mate" 😁
they say the journey to the west on the mega duck was the pre cursor to dragon ball z
I hadn't heard of a single one of these handheld before today what a cool interesting video
Imaging being the kid in the 90s with a ‘gay mate’
Time for that Urban Champion remaster..
I wish I was young enough to be a Cougar Boy 🙀
Gamemaster looks an awful lot like a Sega GameGear.
Ah the gaymate. Good old times.
É un peccato che ai miei tempi le scatole si buttavano sempre ..😢
WHY NO ASHENS. LISA, WHERE'S ASHENS?
13:00 a wild Crystball appeared!
ah the sounds, music to my ear
stay fresh!! cheese bags
That title. Perfection.😂
500 martonra
hey, I loved my game com
Bro thinks he's ashens
Huuuh, I thought you were British? Why does the thumbnail say mom in it?? Wtf 🤦♂️😂
It's a MEMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Ashens has entered the chat.
Game boy pure magic
What about the barcode battler !🚮
Different kind of beast
my dad got me a supervision! i literally had a gameboy at home but kept the supervision at our summer house.quite enjoyed playing the games on that thing too!
As crap as squarespace are I prefer them x1000 over Better Help as a sponsor ❤ keep up the good work fella and, as always, stay safe.
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