Retro Handheld Gaming in Jolly Old England
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Here's a recap of my recent trip to London, to include the handhelds and other gear I brought, and all the places we visited.
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Timestamps:
00:00 introduction
01:10 the handhelds I played
03:52 special gear for the trip
06:29 traveling to the UK
07:20 retro game shopping
09:20 context for the trip
11:03 transportation
12:12 Central London
16:20 Camden, Chinatown, West End
17:39 shopping and markets
20:09 museums
23:02 Windsor Castle, Stonehenge, Oxford
25:26 Harry Potter
28:40 Ted Lasso
29:50 Notting Hill and Abbey Road
31:02 food observations
34:36 summary and conclusion
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My partner saw you on his way home from work while you were here. He didn't say hi because he felt bad bothering you but he regrets it now because we love your channel so he wanted to give you some praise! Also your reviews have really helped us out. Glad you had a great time 😊
Y’all think Rus stays up late at night thinking about which handhelds fit with which people?
"Forget Astrology Sign, whats your retro handheld?"
"omg, he's such an anbernic RG35XX 2024 edition. So pointless"
@@thaigrocerdang girl are you an odin 2 because your definitely worth the price and not too power hungry
@markdarc0448 are you calling me fat?
I think about that every day
Neat vid! If I ever left mom's basement I assume this is the kind of adventure I'd have, but watching yours is the next best thing!
TechDweeb's first travel video: "I went upstairs" :D
Hold on, hold on. So your mom's basement has a magical doorway like in Narnia? That's the first explanation that springs to mind for your camping video. Talking of which, I remember you packing a Powkiddy V90. Any chance of a new TechDweeb Goes Camping, rated RG35XXSP?
"I am the Walruss"
Perfect!!
Part of me wishes I had written "I am the Wall Russ" :)
top tier pun
Great video. I'm from the UK and in London half my time - a good portion of what you saw, I haven't, embarrassingly! Maybe I'll go visit the Walruss!
“…to pick up omiyage” Russ, using a Japanese word that is parlance in Hawaii, to describe a scene where French pastries are displayed in a British department store. I hadn’t expected I would get so cultured from my favorite Game Boy TH-cam channel 😆 I’m here for it!
Traveling to Korea from Chicago (I was Army) took me 21 hours. Crazy to wake up, eat ANOTHER breakfast, and still be on the same plane. What I wouldn't have given to have had a retro handheld. Alas, it was 1998.
That’s a wild trip! I did Detroit to Korea a couple times, that was brutal.
@@RetroGameCorps were you headed to Osan? I worked at Suwon occasionally, up from our post near Daegu (Taegu when I was there).
i normally hate off-topic videos on genre-specific channels. but I live for your travel videos and always take something away from it, both technologically and not.
I love the Russ travel blogs. Enjoying the trips vicariously through you!
As someone from the UK I can say its very impressive all the different places you managed to visited. Honestly you saw far more of our country then most people have. When my American wife came to visit her first time we hit up many of the same places she loved it. London is a great Capital city
I personally don't recommend going to London at the moment. It's quite dangerous and it's probably the least British feeling town/city in England.
York and Bath and Whitby are probably better examples and the lake District too, to visit right now.
@@MoviesNGames007uk Its like anything. If you stay in tourist areas you'll be fine. If you go into rough parts anywhere you can get into trouble. 99% of those crimes are gang on gang. Plus not British feeling? We have so historic landmarks. Yes London has high immigration like a lot of the world however its stupid reason not to visit. Hes a tourist visiting tourist spots hes going to see plenty of people from all over the world
@@MoviesNGames007uk thanks for the tip Alan Partridge. I hear Norwich is exceptional after the pedestrianisation.
There are some great retro game museums/arcades if you know where to visit ;)
Literally lol I never go anywhere in London 😂
I know this isn’t your normal content, but I love travel and you’re a great narrator so I really enjoyed the video!
Seeing you in a Cex is a crazy crossover lol
To be boldly pronounced as “SEX”
Yeah
He went to CEX?! 😮😮 Whoa 😂
It's cee-e-ex
@@MoviesNGames007uk everyone calls it the sex shop. When mates asked me where my daughter worked during college - they knew exactly what I meant.
Hello & much love from England ♥️
I'm from the UK and it's great to see you and your family had a good time and the weather was behaving for you. Your wife and her friend planned a nice itinerary and it looks like it worked well. The UK is a great place to visit and all are welcome.
I love that this is the new age version of your parents slide show from their 1980's vacation!
I’m British, have worked in the video games industry for almost 40 years and even though I’ve lived in Los Angeles for the last 18, London is still my favourite city and I love going back. I really look forward to your videos as they are great, but now this one has two of my favourite subject matters in one so doubly good! :)
Hope you enjoyed your trip and got to see the best of us ❤
I love the tour videos, it is like a country review hahaha
Dang, you could've popped over for a cup-o-tea if I'd known you were coming. Glad you enjoyed the trip - looks like you got here the week before it started pouring down with rain! Weather's turned much nicer now - finally!
I was actually thinking of leaving a comment that Russ could have popped over for a cup of tea, but then seeing your comment I realised he'd have spent his whole trip visiting his fans and drinking tea 😂
Wonder how many teas he can do in a day, lol
Without this channel I would probably still be trying to set up handhelds and emulators!! Glad you enjoyed your trip here and keep up the amazing work you do 🏴
Awesome to see you over here in the UK for a visit! I live in London as well, definitely a lot of great gaming places here!
Windsor Castle. Stonehenge AND Oxford in one day!!! Crazy! Well done! I have a 12 hour (ish) journey in a couple weeks, from the south of Norway where I live to my parents in Cornwall...so way out much further south west than Stonehenge (which we would often drive past from Hertfordshire, where I grew up, down to Cornwall where we used to go on holiday). I'll bring with me an assortment of devices that your videos very much lead me to, beginning with a 350m, back in September 2021. That might come...my rp3+ definitely will be with me.
Retro Game Corps turned into a travel vlog so gradually I didn't even notice.
This was amazing, we just moved to UK 2 years back and haven’t covered many places as you did during your short stay. I showed this to my wife and 7 year old, they both enjoyed it. We are now very eager to see some of these places before we move back to home country.
Also we love Cider and German Doner Kebab so it was very satisfying to see you highlight that in your video. 😂😂
Please allocate sometime for fan interaction next time you here😅
Russ pivots to a travel vlog channel is such a power move. I hope to see some different types of content from you soon like this!
I mean, he pivoted from Military Interpreter to cookbook author/food photographer to TH-cam 😂
is RGC a travel channel now?? i’m SO here for it. thank you for taking us with you Russ!!
Just thought I would add a comment saying I would love to see more travel videos. These have been a lot of fun, so it would be great if you made videos for your Too Many Games and Germany trips. 👍
London was a tack on destination for me after Paris and France. I was very pleasantly surprised!
Hope you enjoyed your trip!
Great one as always. 👌🙏
This time I wanted to share with you how i watch your videos.
For me it is not just watching the video start to end. I watch it and pause it whenever i notice something new you are sharing. Could be a setting, could an emulator, could be a game you enjoy, an accessory you showcase. I pause, implement on my current device, research an item you shared (price, shipping to my country, etc.)
Also having some snacks and a drink 😉
So for me it is having a break at the end of the day, and making a whole experience viewing your content.
So thank you for that 🙏 keep it going.
Wild to see that you visited Stonehenge, that's literally just around the corner from me. In fact, as a local resident of Amesbury, I am entitled to free entry! Glad to see you all had such a great time on your UK trip!
I enjoyed the travel video more than I thought I would. Thanks for sharing your travels with us.
Thanks for saying the food is alright too :) The number of Americans I see online saying all food in the UK is terrible is just baffling. There's good and bad food everywhere :D
American here... best falafel I ever had was in London.
One interesting fact about St Paul's you might be interested in is that planning laws in London dictate that any new tall building must be built such that lines of sight from several vantage points around London to St Paul's are maintained. If you saw two skyscrapers which were very slanted (I think one of them is the leadenhall building, otherwise known as the cheese grater) it's to maintain London's protected views. The shard is another building which almost blocked one of the viewing corridors to St Paul's. Hope you had a great time, you did tons for such a short trip! Next time consider some time in rural Scotland (hire a car), as well as The Giants Causeway and Carrick-a-rede rope bridge in northern Ireland (generally there are some beautiful places in Scotland, Ireland and Wales - the national show caves in Wales are pretty cool too and also Lundy island off the west coast of Devon).
Welcome to this side of the pond Russ :)
They actually crossed a pond and a half.
I love watching the videos about your travels. It lets me feel like I am visiting and gives me a historic look at things.
Next time you visit head North, places like York, Durham, Northumberland they will really impress, but dont stop there cross the border and the beauty really kicks in Glencoe, Ben Nevis and for the Harry Potter fix - The Jacobite awaits.
Loving these Video ❤🎉
Russ, I love hearing about your family trips. These are some of my favorite of your videos. It’s nice that you worked in some handheld gaming stuff, but honestly, I didn’t at all mind that it took kind of a backseat to your travelogue. I’d love to visit England someday. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing your experience, very cool to see that footage.
The WalRus joke cracked me up 😂. Thanks for sharing, your experience, very informative and entertaining.
This was so interesting! A lot of fun facts about you that were really cool. Cookbooks, translator and linguist, history and social studies, wow.
I hope I lead a life half as full as yours! Thank you for sharing, I dream of going to London and your trip was a lovely guide.
I enjoy and learn a lot from your videos, I practice my English and improve my knowledge about handhelds and video games. I admire you Rush, please keep on inspiring and working on those awesome videos. You are the best!
Really like this vlog style of video, thanks for sharing Russ.
nobody's going to mention the fact that he made the travel video more pleasant and entertaining to watch than other travel vloggers? Great videooo
I'm really glad you worked on getting this one up before the cube-- really, really lovely travelogue, and looking forward to more of them from you in the future!
Really enjoyed this video seeing other trips like this in the future would be cool. Keep up the great work!
Russ, love ur videos. you could pretty much make a video on anything at this point I’d watch it. Travel, video games, cooking, quilting…whatever you do, it’s always good
Retro Quilt Corps, may be a stretch for me to watch 😄
I almost skipped this when he said it was just London stuff but really enjoyed the food/ movie/ museum reviews. Can’t wait for Germany!
Absolutely enjoy these travel videos man. Always find them super entertaining and informative. Can't wait to take my Odin 2 with me on my next trip.
Great video. As someone from the UK it was great to see and ashamed to say I’ve not been to some of these places myself. Also “pasties” is pronounced pas-tees 😂. Keep up the great videos!
One of the best London touristing vlog ever!
with regard to your mixed feelings on the british museum, there is a valid argument regarding theft; however, i think we cannot overlook the role many of these museum have played in the preservation and restoration of artifacts that might have otherwise been lost to private collections, neglect or even wanton destruction. my personal experience is with the destruction of archaeological sites by isis in iraq. artifacts i had the privilege of seeing first hand in nimrud and tal afar while deployed many years ago are now lost forever.
Great point, it's certainly a mixed experience. Things can (and often are) good and bad at the same time, and it's always a challenge to articulate that in a retro gaming video :)
While preserving history is great, it's better to do it in collaboration, not as a byproduct of invading a country
You know why there’s no Pyramids in the UK right? Because they didn’t fit into the British Museum 🤣 ba da tzz
Agreed have very mixed feelings whenever I’m in London and go with family to the British Museum, it’s normally an off the cuff joke about where is the worlds largest amount of stole items.
I think a comparison could be made about game preservation, by having someone look after the artefact it makes sure that future generations get to see and understand it
Also another interesting thing rarely mentioned is the stuff other countries stole from Great Britain. I think the last surviving British mediaeval Tudor crown is in the hands of a private collector in Germany. And because of the Viking raids on England, more Anglo-Saxon coins were found in Scandinavian countries than the UK! Particular stones and other things in Herculeam have been tested and traced back to the white cliffs of Dover apparently, so the Romans certainly got about.
The fact that you are financially stable with a family and your TH-cam channel and you still have time to take these awesome trips is so great! I like these type of videos because I know I don’t go outside 😅but maybe someday day I will travel.
I'm going to London, Canada for an event called Tennocon this year. It's the first time I've ever left the US and I've been stumped for the last month trying to decide which handheld(s) to bring, so I'm watching all of your travel videos to give myself some inspiration for what to bring and play for a long trip.
This trip has definitely made me realize that I have way too many handhelds for someone who never travels. Between a Steam Deck, ROG Ally, Odin Lite, Miyoo Mini+, Funkey S, Switch, Razer Kishi, 3DS and Vita I all barely touch.
What a fun video. Thanks Russ!
Always a pleasure to watch your vdos ! I am a follower of your channel since its early beginning. Cheers from France
Russ is semi star struck to walk in the same place as the Beetles. Same as I would be to be in the same place Russ has been. We all have our hero.
Enjoyed the vlog/recap! I only recently got into retro handhelds. You've been my go-to but had no idea that you're retired military, have written multiple cook books, etc. Awesome to see and learn more about your life!
Yes, more travel videos! Even if they're not directly related to gaming, they're a fun glimpse into the behind the scenes.
Props, very cool travel vlog, also props to the planers, very well planned and scheduled!
Hawaii to Watford is actually insane 😂
I'm going on vacation to London tomorrow for the first time in 28 years. This video couldn't have come at a better time.
Seeing the blue whale next to the elephants is insane
Hey, to our friends in the US from your friends in the UK, London isn't the be all and end all. Try Manchester, birth of the Industrial Revolution, home of the first computer, great music scene and a fantastic retro gaming hub. Birmingham, Newcastle, Bristol, Cornwall, The Lake District, Glasgow n Edinburgh, Belfast and the various outlying areas. We are more than that city, and more varied, try us.🇬🇧
Yeah, not London, i have no clue, but Peter does sound quite convincing. Kind of like visiting New York City in the United States of America, there is way more going on in America than just the city of New York
Watching this video made me want to book a flight ✈️ to London and checkout those beautiful places and enjoy the food while I'm there. Thank you, Russ for sharing and keep on cranking those gaming device videos that are always awesome to see!
Glad to hear you enjoyed your trip to London!
This was excellent Russ!
I shared this with my wife, who’s been to London for some time. This was (chefs kiss) great, thanks for the insight
Really looking forward to the review of the RG Cube! Glad you had a good time in the UK.
Travel videos are a nice add-on to the channel. And as long as you also tell what devices you brought with you and when and how you tended to use them, there's still that connection, too. I usually bring my Switch and something to play GB/GBC games on. Either the Miyoo mini Plus or the RG 35xx SP.
My wife and I just visited England in September! We went to many of the same places you did. It was wonderful to experience these things again through your video. Thank you for sharing!
When you visited the NHM, you were literally a few hundred yards from a huge basement full of 150 playable OG retro consoles (Power Up at the Science Museum).
It's so surreal seeing you in London since I travel there quite often! I'm glad you had a great time overall!
I enjoy yr travel videos. Its a nice chnaged of pace and im always cooped up at home so seeing what other countries are like in your videos is nice
So strange to see you basically follow my week, from working in Camden, living near Richmond, taking the kids out at Portobello, you've basically covered most of my week, can't believe I didn't bump into you 🙂 Glad you had a great time!
Haven't been to London for 20 years now. Thank you for taking me back there.
I‘m the Zenmeister and this is my favorite Retro gaming channel on TH-cam.
You ARE the walRUSS! 💚 Thank you for taking us along for the journey! Now I wanna go...
I'm from the UK and there's no way I would of left Hawaii for that 😂 glad you and the family enjoyed yourselves 😉👍
Wow you certainly fitted in a lot in what I'm guessing was about a week of travel! Next time make it 3 weeks and you can visit the North of England, I'd say York and surrounding area is a 2 day definite (every town round there has cathedrals), maybe a day over on the East coast and sample some coastal Yorkshire. Oh you have to go down to the South West of England, they're a bit special there (in a good way, mostly). Wales is cool for history and really stark and stunning landscapes, you want the weather though. And finally my home, Scotland! I won't say where to go, I'd be a bit too biased.
Planning on coming to Germany? Man, hope you're gonna be somewhere close so I can stop by and say hi. Especially say "thank you" for all of your awesome content you're giving us throughout the years!
And by the way, yes, these videos are really cool, I enjoyed this one a lot!
Nice to see you in the UK. Hope you enjoyed!
London is definitely one of my favorite cities (see my profile pic), and I've been there maybe 8-9 times since 2016. I could visit once a year for the rest of my life and never get bored. Both Borough Market and Camden Market are great but tend to get absolutely slammed with tourists. Not sure if there's a "best" time to go, but recommend anyone to try and go on those "off times" if possible.
Love these travel videos!!
Thanks for the London travel tips! Coincidentally I'm about to take my family to London from the U.S. for the kids' first visit in a couple of weeks, with much of the same agenda. Thanks to this channel I have my Anbernic handhelds sorted and some more ideas about what to do in the U.K. Happy travels!
Thanks for this vid Russ, i learnt a tonne about you I didnt know before! The cookbooks, english descent etc. Besides I think more chat about touching grass is always good for gamers!
Nice video.
The length allocated to each item is just nice to keep my interest and still be informative.
Enjoyed the video.
Great to see your trip, me and my partner were in London the weekend just gone doing almost the exact same things. Hope you all had a nice time!
I'm not from the UK; I'm from the the american continent as well, though a bit further south. But I've been living in London for about a year and a half now, and I'm growing quite fond of this city. So it was quite a surprise when I came across this video in your channel. We've been living not too far from Richmond, which is one of our favourite spots to visit when we want to relax with the kids. I hope you had a lovely time around these parts. Cheers!
It's good to see that Russ can review an entire country as if it was a retro handheld console lol
@9:40 - So.... you pretty much stopped aging 20 years ago, huh?
As a retro gamer who used to live in London, this was an awesome video to see, thanks for making these!
I was there in January and saw everything that you showed in your video. I loved London!! It's so nice to see these places again here.
Love your travel videos, Russ!
How is it that im not into travel videos on YT, yet you somehow make them interesting.
Great vid Russ. Glad you enjoyed visiting us in England. Had no idea you loved cider. I’m actually from Somerset, the true home of cider. If you ever get chance, try a scrumpy. Traditional strong flat cider. Anyway I’m glad you had such a great time. Also, if you are ever in London again without the kids, take a trip to NQ64 in Soho. It’s a nightclub/bar that serves video game themed cocktails and has a tonne of retro consoles and arcade machines to play.
Londoner here, I really enjoyed seeing how you explored the city. Glad you guys had a good trip!
Taking notes for my trip to London!
I was gonna hate you out of jealousy because of the thumbnail, the big Ben, then the Stonehenge images. But as I began typing this comment I got interrupted by a TH-cam ad less than a minute in and I realized I hate TH-cam ads and I'm happy you spent time seeing cool stuff with a pocket full of fun. My ultimate bucket list thing to do is visit Ankor Wat and play super Mario land sitting at any part of the temple steps. Aloha.
Keep it up on posting travel impression videos, quite interesting with a bunch of gaming as well Russ!
Harry Porter Studio not far from my house I grow up in lol.
but the uk is rich historical figures
Fun fact the person that found the first dinosaur bone was English
Your travel videos are great! keep doing them please :)