*HitClips video now available here* : th-cam.com/video/X8568_3amO4/w-d-xo.html Also sorry about the muted audio on this PocketRockers video. You know how it is, Auto Content Match to the artists rescue.
@@sergej2850 I see those EVERY WHERE in my yt recommended page, and there cheap so probably your parents thought that it was really 1000 games in one thing sooooooo that's probably why they got u that tl;dr they believed there were actually 1000 games in one consol
That always disappointed me as a kid. Ads marketing gadgets to kids always showed them enjoying them at school, on the bus, or in class. But that wasnt the reality. Most places where they werent allowed and adult staff with hands out ready to snatch them.
@@你老婆-c5l at least you don't have any lingering bitterness 😁 I had this one teacher, if she thought you had gum, she would call you up to smell your breath (so you couldn't pull the ole sneaky swallow) she was a savage 😭
Half the point of public school is to dominate children and push them around in order to instill the idea that 'authority' can do whatever it wants and there's nothing they can do about it. "Confiscating" possessions on the grounds of some arbitrary policy is an integral part of that process. After all those formative years of subjugation, you'll make a good little drone when you grow up, never questioning what your boss or the government says. Anyway rant aside, you're absolutely right. I was too old for this when it was popular, but nonetheless at my school pretty much any sort of toy or game was banned anywhere on school property, including buses which were considered part of the school. If you let a teacher see you had something like this, let alone actually have the nerve to use it, you'd have it taken away at once.
So totally-I used to have this one 💚💜 I miss it my mom threw it out. I was the only kid in my area who liked these or was interested in different tape sizes
At first, I was thinking, "A 16 minute video about Pocket Rockers? What could he possibly talk about for that long? Eh, I'll check it out for a few seconds just for nostalgia's sake." - ten minutes later, and I'm still glued to the screen - "Geez, only six minutes left! What is on the other side of the tape? How long will the replacement belt last? How much are these things now? Why did I never want one of these things? Did I even know anybody who owned one? What about?.."
Real electronics brands tended to keep it classy, save for the "My First Sony" campaign, which I think steered more kids to the "It's a Sony" campaign than the goofy kids colored stuff. It did for me anyhow. My first quality Walkman and Discman were both mid-line Sonys, both black and silver.
As soon as I saw the graphics on the player I thought “ did they copy the Philips Moving Sound players or did Philips copy them? “ The Philips came with stickers so you could personalise your equipment.
So THAT'S what it was called, THAT'S where it came from!!! Thank you so much. I've been looking for a name to pin on this style since forever. It's very charming, and I wish we could go back to it on some level.. But looking at some of that furniture... Yeah I couldn't live more than 2-3 months in a house styled like that... probably. It's fascinating to me how it took off, and then faded away..
That style comes from the 'Memphis' style originating in graphic and interior design in the early 80s if you're interested - massively influential! [edit - what he said above me!]
The biggest problem with these was the same problem as everything marketed towards kids. Kids don't have money and have to get their parents to buy them.
My parents had a cookie jar shaped like a dog that would play that song every time you opened it I would open it just to listen to the song and annoy my parents they never actually kept cookies in there well at first they did
I had a Pocket Rocker with that Cutting Crew tape. by the time I got it in the 90s, the belt inside had worn and I fondly remember having to hit it to continue playing. Never remembered what happened to it. I miss it.
Dana W "I'm sorry, but you're just too darn loud." (BTTF) Yeah, I saw on the news (ironically) that he had to cancel a gig recently. Shame, as it happens to a lot of musicians. Makes you think more about volume levels and ear protection. It's mainly the high frequencies that damage hearing, of course. May be worth more live gigs taking a bit more off the top end?
I think the appeal was in the relatively simplicity and durability of the device. You could hand one to a young child and not worry about them damaging a cassette player or a (relatively) expensive full album cassette. As for the music selection well, what eight year-old child has a taste in music beyond "that stuff mom and dad listen to?" :P
@@HaswellCore kids are still like this. Listen to music with your children and they'll learn and love the stuff. Don't just turn them loose on TicTok, or the absolute lose gutter music on radio and they'll be fine.
I mean I have warm memories about songs that uhhh, were about suicide I think..... In my defense, the artist really did a good job with the song and it just sounded banging.
@@HaswellCore I think I was age 11, 70's, bought first album, best of Beatles ( the red cover, the other one was blue, both with picture of them looking down from balcony ). My parents did not listen to rock music.
I showed my mum this video and she laughed and said she remembered having one of these, she had the Cindy Lauper tape. She was given it on her 8th birthday in 1989, apparently they weren't cheap either ripp.
Damn reading this made me feel old af cuz i remember these and your saying you showed your mom this so obviously u werent around when these were created
@@i.a.rodriguez8994 there are currently people who weren't even born yet when 9/11 happened that graduated highschool a couple years ago and will start families in the next 5 or 6 years or so, i repeat, in 2033 your average second grade class will be full of kids saying "my dad was born in 2002", as someone born in 2003 i am just as terrified of that future as you are
Popo Bawa Well at least the kids who saw that commercial wouldn’t have been saddened by the terrible bastardization of CCR. Oddly enough though, why weren’t kids from that era into them? I was born in ‘89 and still found my way to enjoying music that old.
Redneck Ram's Parlor - "Oddly enough though, why weren’t kids from that era into them? I was born in ‘89 and still found my way to enjoying music that old." - I was half-joking. I think that a bad CCR cover was a doubly-bad marketing move. But hailing from '72, many of my peers were into older popular music. In my region, the early 80s was when we got "oldies" (50s-60s) and "classic rock" (60s-70s) radio stations. Not to mention that some of us started out by combing through parent's record collections.
So excited to find this video because I distinctly remember having one of these for a while as a kid. My tape was "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears. Probably the first time I ever heard those songs actually and might be why I still love them now.
databits Especially nice shoutout, after your mild grumble about "that guy across the pond" a while back. lol I've been subbed to you for years, btw. Anyone who enjoys Techmoan should enjoy databits as well. (databits was doing this stuff well before it starred puppets. :p )
maxie fuqua I don't think UMD movies were strictly for kids, as there plenty of films and shows for adults released on that format. However, it's still an interesting forgotten format.
Josh I I really meant more that it failed because it didn't know who it was martketing itself to. Movies that can only be played on a video game system. makes no sense.
OH MY IM 12 AND I HAVE A GAME BOY ADVANCE SP 001 WITH A JIMMY NEUTRON VIDEO THINGY AND A MARIO KART SUPER CIRCUIT. i think you can guess which one i use more
Jesus. 35ish years ago? I never had one or saw one that I remember but I remember the ad jingle like it was yesterday. I can't remember what my first dog looked like, but I remember the Pocket Rockers theme. Thanks, brain, excellent use of neurons there.
I had one of these as a kid and absolutely loved it! I'm sure my sister and I drove our parents crazy with Tiffany, The Bangles, and Kim Carnes playing endlessly. I do remember for the time period, the sound was really good. We didn't wear them or the cassettes anywhere. We just played the heck out of them. Thanks for the review!
Here in Australia, Fisher Price was solely associated with toys for toddlers. An eight year old kid showing off his new Pocket Rocker would have suffered everlasting humiliation.
I'm 38 and remember these...they were quite the novelty but music selection was limited and they didn't have the hip-hop acts of the day like run- dmc or eric B and rakim it was pretty much jus pop...it was hot for the summer and that fall for school, but after that xmas it was pretty much forgotten.. Thanks for the review! 👍🔥
John Smith dude Im 38 as well and don't recall these at all. I had spent some Birthday money to buy a cheap walkman knockoff like he showed in the picture. I used to make mixed tapes by listen to the radio and hitting record whenever a new song came on.
Insanity made as a toy. Nothing says musical pleasure like hearing some 80's pop rock song *overandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverand*
Is anyone else reminded of the Action Replay toys? They were small battery powered things that you held up to one eye and played about 20 to 30 seconds of film from a circular cartridge. I remember owning one with the Terminator 2 cart and loving it. Dunno why really. Interesting concept but really limited. Ever seen one Techmoan?
(I vividly remember the Sears Christmas catalog pushing a film loop for it from... Alien! It's amazing how much kid marketing there was for that R-rated horror film.) correction: That was apparently for Kenner's competing model...
Even though I was born in the mid 90s, 80s tech feels so nostalgic because of how much I used it. My grandparents didn't even upgrade from VHS to DVD until like 2005.
Too bad they didn't make these stereo or used all 4 tracks to hold 4 songs. I was a radio DJ in the 80's and there were plenty of grade school kids who called me all the time that loved Huey Lewis and Genesis thanks to MTV. "Can you play the Power of Love? I want to record it on my boombox".
I would agree on this, getting the system to be slower and reading 4 tracks would have been a better system to get at least part of an album onto the set.
I was baffled it used only half the tape. Double-side heads were common, an doubling capacity is not to be scoffed at. With a little ingenuity it could even seamlessly switch side to double duration.
@@peter-william haha, wooooshed! also: r/ihavereddit, r/itswoooshwithfouros, r/im14andthisiswoosh and any number of subreddits that apply to your absolutely fucking stupid comment.
Looking at the list of songs featured on these, I'm impressed at the variety, it feels like they have a wider range of genres than hitclips did. More oldies, more current hits that aren't just pure pop. Also I love the custom art they've made for each cassette, it's really 80s and looks awesome
tyrgoossens Last year, one of my uncles collapsed while he was staying with us. It was tragic. The family was devastated. Everyone thought he was dead. But, after watching Techmoan for years, I just opened my uncle up and replaced the belt. He was good as new.
It wasn't this exactly, but at some point between 98-02ish my local library used to host this thing in the summer for kids, where if you made it through their whole summer reading list, you won a little prize bag, and then they have extra books for extra prizes. One of the prizes I won was a little portable tape deck that came with 3 tapes. They weren't endless loop, but they each had 2 songs on them, and they were absolutely tiny. The player itself was worn around the neck like a necklace, and was maybe the size of a pack of cigarettes (american, if they're different in other places), of a little smaller. You got 3 tapes with it, but the only song I remember was TLC waterfalls. I had that thing for *years* it was solid blue, and only had an eject button for the tapes. No pause, no rewind, nothing else. They also had a little fm radio that clipped onto your belt loops, but I didn't get that one.
I will guess that you weren't around back then, men now im old, in my times you had to walk though snow and mud in order to get old, anyways I had a folder that played music, it was loud and pretty noisy you could barely distinguish the words still I loved it until the battery ran out, back then I didn't know how to change a clock battery.
I've never seen one of these. I've watched several of your videos, enjoyed them all, and am always amazed that these ancient devices actually work. Thank you for all you do.
Absolutely not true at all. Take off your rose colored glasses. Commercials have always sucked but at least nowadays they actually TRY to be entertaining sometimes. In the 80s and 90s every fucking commercials was just loud noisy edgy and obnoxious or boring as fuck.
@@kevinbissinger I have to agree with the rest and disregard that opinion as your own tonedeaf subjectivity. Commercials these days are far more obnoxious because (much like many modern fixtures of entertainment) they try way too hard and come from the same old cookie-cutter attempts at over stimulation: absurd humor and hype mentality, the kind that marketing huddles have beaten to the point of utter banality. This is the age of zero intellect.
I remember those. Only stupid kids had them because owning this was an intelligence test. Why would you want a device that had half songs and only a few albums when a nice walkman would do so much more? As you can tell from my punctuation I had a Pocket Rocker.
I remember kids wearing these in the late 1980's. Another clever fisher price product. We need to see the fisher price camcorder reviewed Mr. Techmoan!
I remember seeing these in the stores. I had been making my own dubs of LP's for years. Other than seeing them in the store, about all else I can remember is the genuinely annoying commercials making a shambles of CCR's Down on The Corner. Still, I do very much enjoy your videos. Thank you!
I forgot about these. It's so interesting how quickly 35 years can melt away around me just by watching stuff like this or a few ads or shows I remember as a much younger kid.
I got my first walkman for my 7th birthday in 1990 and Tina Turner, Rolling Stones and Phil Collins tapes with it. Guess what, I listened the shit out of Phil Collins. My mother couldn't stand me screaming 'susussudio!!' from the top of my lungs.
I remember playing with a couple hit clips when i was little and wondering how they worked internally... I have no idea how I ended up with them in the first place however as I was very young at the time... To this day that tiny toy boombox is still what i associate the company with...
It was a great commercial in its day and even now. However, marketing that to 8 year olds doomed it. Had it played whole songs, been slightly bigger, and been marketed to kids a bit older, it would have been the poor teen's Walkman. Walkmsm was still the better choice.
One of my younger female cousins had this with a few of the tapes, but I always laughed at her since I had a normal cheapo portable AM/FM Tape deck with a built in speaker, and shoulder strap. Man I truly miss that thing.
they should have had one of ""Confusion" by New Order (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix)" AKA the music from the club scene in blade. They could have just made a perfect loop of it and never had a fadeout and it could have just played forever.
I don't remember ever actively buying a portable tape player, but it seems like I always had a couple floating around. I think I may have got them as prizes at events, or maybe even gifts.... I just remember they'd kind of show up here and there. I don't think I ever had a Walkman or brand name player. I had a real Discman though... I miss the days of walking around holding my Discman level so it wouldn't skip... my friend had a newer one where you could actually take the disc out for a while and it'd keep playing because of the fancy shock protection, but mine was a pretty early skipping model. The skipping wasn't that bad but it definitely happened if you weren't careful. This also unlocks memories of wishing I had a Sega CDX (Genesis + Sega CD combo in the form factor of a Discman) so I could carry it around to play audio cds and still be able to play games... of course you'd have to haul a case of games and cables and controllers and all that around to do so.............. Never had a CDX. I did used to take my Sega CD around to friends houses quite a bit though since I was the only one that had one. Maybe that's what made me want a portable one.
I saw another video on Hit clips a while ago, I seem to recall the sound quality on them was horrendous. This at least seems to at least have half decent sound.
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*HitClips video now available here* : th-cam.com/video/X8568_3amO4/w-d-xo.html
Also sorry about the muted audio on this PocketRockers video. You know how it is, Auto Content Match to the artists rescue.
Figured as much 🌕
Well, no one has listened to Cutting Crew for thirty years, why would we start now?
It's kinda funny that the Pocket Rocker's speaker was so bad that Content ID didn't even recognize the song.
0:29 "put hitclips to one side"
2 years later
Of course. God I hate TH-cam's copyright bot system. Remember folks, 2 strikes at once and your channel is deleted.
"Have a listen to a direct feed I have of it"
*solid 10 seconds of silence due to copyrighted music being cut out*
so that's why it sounded so absolutely clean!
"Now you might've noticed..."
Replace 10 seconds of silence with “Never gonna give you up” by Rick Ashley.
Thanks for nothing TH-cam 😑
TH-cam needs to grow the heck up.
I wanted one of these and then my parents got me a Walkman - I think I won out on that.
You had wise parents
You’re parents are the anti-average parents. Lol
you have great parents, i wanted a PSP and got a 1000 in one chinese knockoff
+Sergej 2 Then you have the opposite of great parents, I never got any horrible bootleg console or any lame stuff.
@@sergej2850 I see those EVERY WHERE in my yt recommended page, and there cheap so probably your parents thought that it was really 1000 games in one thing sooooooo that's probably why they got u that
tl;dr they believed there were actually 1000 games in one consol
These were huge when I was in 3rd grade. My friend had “Walk Like An Egyptian” and she was really popular at recess.
Where are you from? Ive never seen these before.
That song fucking bangs of course she was
Yare yare daze
Wayoh wayohh wayy-ay-yoh-wayohhh.. walk like an Egyptiannnn
Oh Ho! Your approaching me ? instead of Running away , Your coming right at me!
The graphics on the front of the player are 100% pure 80s
yes
Memphis Group/Milano design.
"As was the style at the time!"
That always disappointed me as a kid. Ads marketing gadgets to kids always showed them enjoying them at school, on the bus, or in class. But that wasnt the reality. Most places where they werent allowed and adult staff with hands out ready to snatch them.
You couldn't use a walkman in the school bus?
Yeah man, like taking my Pokemon cards at recess. Ugh! fucking adults. I HATE THEM I HATE THEM IA HTE THEM!
@@你老婆-c5l at least you don't have any lingering bitterness 😁
I had this one teacher, if she thought you had gum, she would call you up to smell your breath (so you couldn't pull the ole sneaky swallow) she was a savage 😭
Andrew Woo: yeah they suck
Half the point of public school is to dominate children and push them around in order to instill the idea that 'authority' can do whatever it wants and there's nothing they can do about it. "Confiscating" possessions on the grounds of some arbitrary policy is an integral part of that process. After all those formative years of subjugation, you'll make a good little drone when you grow up, never questioning what your boss or the government says. Anyway rant aside, you're absolutely right. I was too old for this when it was popular, but nonetheless at my school pretty much any sort of toy or game was banned anywhere on school property, including buses which were considered part of the school. If you let a teacher see you had something like this, let alone actually have the nerve to use it, you'd have it taken away at once.
That face when youtube cuts out a ton of the song due to copyright even though this is fair use. Great company and business model!
He's allowed to use it because it's an educational video. So not only is it fair use, it's within youtubes ToS
@@Wombattlr But it appears that this has also happened to me while I was watching this video.
Yep censored here in the US...
@@paticusmaximus12 in switzerland too!
@@ddspixelrush6848 in Russia also censored
lol.. searching for "Pocket Rockers" in ebay gives back mostly small "Personal Massagers" for females...
yeah... it does.
Same. Im not mad at tho.
XD
LOL
for everyone*
This looks like something you would find in the front window of that antique store in Back to the Future Part II.
Well, the song that plays at 11:05 IS "The power of love" from Back to the Future
They also did release a Pocket Rockers "Johnny B. Goode" tape by Chuck Berry (*Lip Syncing Michael J Fox Not Included)
As true as that may be, I loved these.
3 minutes of tape? You could fit 5 Ramones songs on it.
300DBenz or any grindcore EP for that matter. lol
:v
See, thinking like that makes me tempted to put out a noisecore EP on pocket rocker tape.
@@drpibisback7680 do it
@@danielrose3447 Well, now I have to go find one of these things. Wish me luck, people!
“It’s doubtful I’ll ever use this again, but at least it’s working perfectly now”.
This is the way.
I didn't even notice this quote the first time I watched, but now I'm like "Yes 😌"
He could resell it on ebay to a collector.
Wow this is a lot better than the 60 second hit clips
And it's even more older.
Bit it's also twice the size
Stop cappin to yo self
So totally-I used to have this one 💚💜 I miss it my mom threw it out. I was the only kid in my area who liked these or was interested in different tape sizes
@@THEE_HELLAbored who the hell cares?
At first, I was thinking, "A 16 minute video about Pocket Rockers? What could he possibly talk about for that long? Eh, I'll check it out for a few seconds just for nostalgia's sake."
- ten minutes later, and I'm still glued to the screen -
"Geez, only six minutes left! What is on the other side of the tape? How long will the replacement belt last? How much are these things now? Why did I never want one of these things? Did I even know anybody who owned one? What about?.."
You must have been new to TH-cam lol
1980s - Pocket Rockers
2000s - Hit Clips
It's like poetry, every stanza kind of rhymes with the last one.
were due for a 2020's one as well lol
2010's- TikTok
For sure--Hit Clips were the later-day solid-state tapeless version of the Pocket Rockers.
Hit clips only had like 15-30 seconds if I remember correctly
Guardians Of The Galaxy but instead of a Walkman, Quill has one of these.
"You shouldn't have killed my mom, and smahsed my Pocket Rocker"
My favourite scene would be where Quill tries to listen to The Chain but it always fades out just before the guitar solo
Starlords offbrand sunking
The movie is only the first half and then it fades to Black
lol
The artwork on the player, that just screams 1980s, I don't think there was a single product or TV show that didn't use that design back then... :P
Real electronics brands tended to keep it classy, save for the "My First Sony" campaign, which I think steered more kids to the "It's a Sony" campaign than the goofy kids colored stuff. It did for me anyhow. My first quality Walkman and Discman were both mid-line Sonys, both black and silver.
As soon as I saw the graphics on the player I thought “ did they copy the Philips Moving Sound players or did Philips copy them? “ The Philips came with stickers so you could personalise your equipment.
Funny that the one in the commercial is so ordinary looking by comparison, black with blue over the speaker.
So THAT'S what it was called, THAT'S where it came from!!! Thank you so much. I've been looking for a name to pin on this style since forever. It's very charming, and I wish we could go back to it on some level.. But looking at some of that furniture... Yeah I couldn't live more than 2-3 months in a house styled like that... probably. It's fascinating to me how it took off, and then faded away..
That style comes from the 'Memphis' style originating in graphic and interior design in the early 80s if you're interested - massively influential! [edit - what he said above me!]
The biggest problem with these was the same problem as everything marketed towards kids.
Kids don't have money and have to get their parents to buy them.
Damn you, child labour laws!!!!
(Nah, just kidding; we shouldn't make kids do strenuous manual labour just for a quick buck.)
I doubt that's a problem considering advertisements for toys still exist.
What I said but not as well I said it.
How is that problem? Is it supposed to marketed to adults instead?
And yet, kids seem to be exceedingly effective in liberating their parents' cash.
Haha. I remember that Hit Clips thing. I used to have one for "Who let the dogs out?" and drove my parents absolutely nuts with that thing.
My parents had a cookie jar shaped like a dog that would play that song every time you opened it I would open it just to listen to the song and annoy my parents they never actually kept cookies in there well at first they did
Had the same one!
we never did find out who let the dogs out…
They had a chance to put The Song That Never Ends on it, and they blew it.
I haven’t heard that song since I was a tween, and the damn thing is STILL in my head, tune, words and all, perfectly intact.
@@nessamillikan6247 same
Put Mana Mana on a tape loop, you'd never notice the difference.
I had a Pocket Rocker with that Cutting Crew tape. by the time I got it in the 90s, the belt inside had worn and I fondly remember having to hit it to continue playing.
Never remembered what happened to it. I miss it.
Imagine this with vaporwave cartridges
JokeriPokeri17 id buy that
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"Huey Lewis has lost his sponge." - The new album, out now in Our Price.
Huey Lewis has lost his hearing sadly.
Dana W
"I'm sorry, but you're just too darn loud." (BTTF)
Yeah, I saw on the news (ironically) that he had to cancel a gig recently.
Shame, as it happens to a lot of musicians. Makes you think more about volume levels and ear protection.
It's mainly the high frequencies that damage hearing, of course. May be worth more live gigs taking a bit more off the top end?
Oddly, Huey lost is hearing due to some sort of a rare disease and not just "loud music".
Maxwelhse
Oh.
I hadn't read that part. :(
ElectronAsh not just a gig was cancelled, his entire tour was cancelled.
I think the appeal was in the relatively simplicity and durability of the device. You could hand one to a young child and not worry about them damaging a cassette player or a (relatively) expensive full album cassette. As for the music selection well, what eight year-old child has a taste in music beyond "that stuff mom and dad listen to?" :P
maybe 8 yo kids in the 80s were like that but nowadays....
@@HaswellCore kids are still like this. Listen to music with your children and they'll learn and love the stuff. Don't just turn them loose on TicTok, or the absolute lose gutter music on radio and they'll be fine.
I mean I have warm memories about songs that uhhh, were about suicide I think.....
In my defense, the artist really did a good job with the song and it just sounded banging.
@@ronindebeatrice Oh god nobody cares about your boomer music
@@HaswellCore I think I was age 11, 70's, bought first album, best of Beatles ( the red cover, the other one was blue, both with picture of them looking down from balcony ). My parents did not listen to rock music.
“And first, a word from our sponsors...”
Me: Oh no
“POCKET ROCKERS”
Me: :)
RAID SHADOW LEGENDS oh wait no it's pocket rockers
Same, I thought it was an ad for square space
That was a clever segment
I still use mine everyday. I mean it goes so well with my denim jacket.
*but first, a word from our sponsors*
made me automatically fast-forward 30 seconds before I realized it wasn't an ad
It's an ad lol
@@Manuel_FM but it's part of the video
Yeah this video it's not endorsed by example Squarespace
Oh my god same XD
Haha you fucking stupid bitch
I showed my mum this video and she laughed and said she remembered having one of these, she had the Cindy Lauper tape. She was given it on her 8th birthday in 1989, apparently they weren't cheap either ripp.
Damn reading this made me feel old af cuz i remember these and your saying you showed your mom this so obviously u werent around when these were created
I.a. Rodriguez lmao that’s exactly what I said!
@@TreeRat580 i miss the 90s
@@i.a.rodriguez8994 hell, i miss being able to remember the 90's
@@i.a.rodriguez8994 there are currently people who weren't even born yet when 9/11 happened that graduated highschool a couple years ago and will start families in the next 5 or 6 years or so, i repeat, in 2033 your average second grade class will be full of kids saying "my dad was born in 2002", as someone born in 2003 i am just as terrified of that future as you are
Crazy how the 80s fashion and style seem like an alternative universe.
Pink and powder-blue confetti universe.
Mohamed Alfalo I don't know where you live, but in the Netherlands there is definitely an 80's comeback with clothes, watches and shoes.
I love it
synical13 What? Most fashion today isn't that outlandish
I was young but I'd like to go back tbh
Think that advert might be the most 80’s thing ever
In 1988, all the cool kids were into Credence Clearwater Revival
Popo Bawa Well at least the kids who saw that commercial wouldn’t have been saddened by the terrible bastardization of CCR. Oddly enough though, why weren’t kids from that era into them? I was born in ‘89 and still found my way to enjoying music that old.
Redneck Ram's Parlor - "Oddly enough though, why weren’t kids from that era into them? I was born in ‘89 and still found my way to enjoying music that old." - I was half-joking. I think that a bad CCR cover was a doubly-bad marketing move. But hailing from '72, many of my peers were into older popular music. In my region, the early 80s was when we got "oldies" (50s-60s) and "classic rock" (60s-70s) radio stations. Not to mention that some of us started out by combing through parent's record collections.
So excited to find this video because I distinctly remember having one of these for a while as a kid. My tape was "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears. Probably the first time I ever heard those songs actually and might be why I still love them now.
Wow! Pretty good quality for a novelty kids toy from the 80's. Way better quality than the early 2000's "HITclip" that I grew up with!
Woofer Cooker I forgot all about the hitclip.
I have the radio tuner thing for the HIT clip player somewhere, lol. Never gave those things another thought until now.
Today will be a day long remembered. Wow...greatly appreciate the credit!
databits I followed u
I follow both of you already. It’s still a great thing to see.
databits I’m on my way to your channel now!
databits
Especially nice shoutout, after your mild grumble about "that guy across the pond" a while back. lol
I've been subbed to you for years, btw. Anyone who enjoys Techmoan should enjoy databits as well.
(databits was doing this stuff well before it starred puppets. :p )
databits nice
The ad music was so drummed into my head it might as well been a radio hit. Nostalgia power!
This reminds me of the Mini DVDs and Game Boy Advance video, two other products for kids from the early 2000s that didn't last long.
Josh I
Don't forget the UMD movies on PSP.
maxie fuqua
I don't think UMD movies were strictly for kids, as there plenty of films and shows for adults released on that format. However, it's still an interesting forgotten format.
Josh I
I really meant more that it failed because it didn't know who it was martketing itself to.
Movies that can only be played on a video game system. makes no sense.
and VideoNow
OH MY IM 12 AND I HAVE A GAME BOY ADVANCE SP 001 WITH A JIMMY NEUTRON VIDEO THINGY AND A MARIO KART SUPER CIRCUIT. i think you can guess which one i use more
I remember listening to Walk like an Egyptian on that thing like it was yesterday. I was probably 5 and was impressed :)
Bobby M oh yeah, I had that one too. And bon jovi, Debbie Gibson and a few others
A girl at school had that tape. Due to rights issues, it was a knockoff and not The Bangles.
One of these things would have blown my mind at 5 years-old lol
Jesus. 35ish years ago? I never had one or saw one that I remember but I remember the ad jingle like it was yesterday. I can't remember what my first dog looked like, but I remember the Pocket Rockers theme. Thanks, brain, excellent use of neurons there.
Do you remember any adults touching you inaporoproately?
skunk12 wtf dude? what even causes you to make a comment like that? 😖
@@MichaelJONeill333 its common for vicims of trauma to mentally block out their childhood.
@@skunk12 that was a stupid question either way
I had one of these as a kid and absolutely loved it! I'm sure my sister and I drove our parents crazy with Tiffany, The Bangles, and Kim Carnes playing endlessly. I do remember for the time period, the sound was really good. We didn't wear them or the cassettes anywhere. We just played the heck out of them. Thanks for the review!
The art on the tapes is pretty cool though
metalmugen I
At 11:06, if you plug in headphones and take off one ear, you hear one track, the other ear the other track. I just thought that was rather cool.
Starry Bubble woah thanks!
What are the songs that play?
😮 Thank you! I didn't even think to do that lol.
that's how stereo works yeah
That never occurred to me
I usually watch these videos on my phone and it's mono speaker
Here in Australia, Fisher Price was solely associated with toys for toddlers. An eight year old kid showing off his new Pocket Rocker would have suffered everlasting humiliation.
in sweden to
Its true every where I'm pretty sure.
It's like that in America
Fisher-Price is associated to it everywhere
Quebec Canada here. Fisher Price is associated with kindergarden, toddlers and babies.
80's overdose. Feels good.
My dad was part of the team at fisher price that designed these, it was one of his favorite products.
It’s night time and I’m learning about 80’s toys.
Help
How old are ya?
benjamin orostica I said night time because I meant 3am but it being 3am I couldn’t think
No that's right, carry on.
You're doing the right thing
Same 1 am
I'm 38 and remember these...they were quite the novelty but music selection was limited and they didn't have the hip-hop acts of the day like run- dmc or eric B and rakim it was pretty much jus pop...it was hot for the summer and that fall for school, but after that xmas it was pretty much forgotten..
Thanks for the review! 👍🔥
John Smith dude Im 38 as well and don't recall these at all. I had spent some Birthday money to buy a cheap walkman knockoff like he showed in the picture. I used to make mixed tapes by listen to the radio and hitting record whenever a new song came on.
Oneofdazzz
Yeah man i mean honestly this only stuck out due to my younger sister. I mean i wasn't rocking it on the recess yard...lol. 😁
pocket rockers did have the fat boys available. Kind of pop or kid friendly act, but no question they were hip-hop.
"Have a listen to a direct feed of it."
*COPYRIGHT ATTACK!*
Insanity made as a toy. Nothing says musical pleasure like hearing some 80's pop rock song *overandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverand*
You forget how much children like to listen to the same sound over and over again.
Heaven
80's radios stations in a nutshell
*overandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandiLiKECHEESEoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverand* .....
^ this guy has never had a depressive episode consisting of playing Africa 118 times at two in the morning.
5:01
Techmoan: Have a listen of the direct feed I've taken of it.
TH-cam Copyright: How about no?
"its doubtful ill ever use this again but at least its working perfectly now" I love this mentality
Is anyone else reminded of the Action Replay toys?
They were small battery powered things that you held up to one eye and played about 20 to 30 seconds of film from a circular cartridge.
I remember owning one with the Terminator 2 cart and loving it. Dunno why really.
Interesting concept but really limited.
Ever seen one Techmoan?
I thought Action Replay was a brand of video game cheat devices
Fisher-Price sold a hand-cranked thing like that in the 1970s. I don't think I ever encountered the battery-powered version.
(I vividly remember the Sears Christmas catalog pushing a film loop for it from... Alien! It's amazing how much kid marketing there was for that R-rated horror film.)
correction: That was apparently for Kenner's competing model...
Wow the tape is pure 80s
BucketsAMF I think he meant this specific format.
5Rounds Rapid no, I mean the Cutting Crew tape.
leogrievous Definitely!
leogrievous pure an hero
It reeks of 80’s..... love it!!
Even though I was born in the mid 90s, 80s tech feels so nostalgic because of how much I used it. My grandparents didn't even upgrade from VHS to DVD until like 2005.
Too bad they didn't make these stereo or used all 4 tracks to hold 4 songs. I was a radio DJ in the 80's and there were plenty of grade school kids who called me all the time that loved Huey Lewis and Genesis thanks to MTV. "Can you play the Power of Love? I want to record it on my boombox".
I would agree on this, getting the system to be slower and reading 4 tracks would have been a better system to get at least part of an album onto the set.
I was baffled it used only half the tape. Double-side heads were common, an doubling capacity is not to be scoffed at.
With a little ingenuity it could even seamlessly switch side to double duration.
Should have thrown your own tracks on a one of those tapes and let it run. Like a custom pocket rocker tape.
Are you sure it's from the '80s? I couldn't tell from the case.
It's late 80s.
r/whoosh
@@peter-william You suck at the sarcasm, not to mention that print could also be early 90s.
@@peter-william haha, wooooshed! also: r/ihavereddit, r/itswoooshwithfouros, r/im14andthisiswoosh and any number of subreddits that apply to your absolutely fucking stupid comment.
The hair styles of the kids clues you in that it is the 80s .
I had one of these. I remember having a Bangles tape with "Manic Monday" on it.
How can people give these videos dislikes? How??? The money, time, and effort invested are a labor of love and informative. What's wrong with people?
joe beastyg Maybe some people watch TH-cam standing on their heads.
The money, time, and effort invested and than 3 sec. sample of playing..
Looking at the list of songs featured on these, I'm impressed at the variety, it feels like they have a wider range of genres than hitclips did. More oldies, more current hits that aren't just pure pop. Also I love the custom art they've made for each cassette, it's really 80s and looks awesome
I want a Pocket Rocker.
It’s so effin cute.
You know you can edit your comment right
You do have it, just with a screen now a days🤣
Just select “repeat one song” in your iPod settings, then select a song. Boom, pocket rocker.
@@Exhaustedhighlighter Mee too
I love watching the belt-replacement-channel.
tyrgoossens Last year, one of my uncles collapsed while he was staying with us. It was tragic. The family was devastated. Everyone thought he was dead. But, after watching Techmoan for years, I just opened my uncle up and replaced the belt. He was good as new.
I freakin love the artwork on those things and their packaging.
agreed
Just when you think you've seen all the different tape formats out there, Techmoan comes along with a new one I've never seen!
A man in a van asked me if I wanted a pocket rocket in 1982.
are you joking? did you say no?
Hahah damn dude
@@justvaper Wise men say "Man with hands in pocket feel cocky all day".
Just asking do you still want the pocket rocket.... signed man in van
It's vampires
Wow, that direct audio feed sounds so high quality! So much so that TH-cam ContentID thought so as well!
It wasn't this exactly, but at some point between 98-02ish my local library used to host this thing in the summer for kids, where if you made it through their whole summer reading list, you won a little prize bag, and then they have extra books for extra prizes. One of the prizes I won was a little portable tape deck that came with 3 tapes. They weren't endless loop, but they each had 2 songs on them, and they were absolutely tiny. The player itself was worn around the neck like a necklace, and was maybe the size of a pack of cigarettes (american, if they're different in other places), of a little smaller. You got 3 tapes with it, but the only song I remember was TLC waterfalls. I had that thing for *years* it was solid blue, and only had an eject button for the tapes. No pause, no rewind, nothing else. They also had a little fm radio that clipped onto your belt loops, but I didn't get that one.
"How many kids that age were really into Genesis and how many of them could correctly answer trivia questions about Boston?"
*raises hand*
Matthew Eargle - AirborneSurfer you could ask me anything about Rush, Genesis or Creedence Clearwater and I could answer it at that time.
Same. I was a MASSIVE Genesis fan when I was about 7. Played the hell out of Invisible Touch.
Probably a lot in 1988.
I will guess that you weren't around back then, men now im old, in my times you had to walk though snow and mud in order to get old, anyways I had a folder that played music, it was loud and pretty noisy you could barely distinguish the words still I loved it until the battery ran out, back then I didn't know how to change a clock battery.
Genesis is the one big classic prog band I haven't got into yet. Should definitely get on it.
I've never seen one of these. I've watched several of your videos, enjoyed them all, and am always amazed that these ancient devices actually work. Thank you for all you do.
Older commercials are way better than the ones today.
Yeah. Stumbled upon some neat Dodge Dakota and Viper commercials yesterday from 2000.
Absolutely not true at all. Take off your rose colored glasses. Commercials have always sucked but at least nowadays they actually TRY to be entertaining sometimes. In the 80s and 90s every fucking commercials was just loud noisy edgy and obnoxious or boring as fuck.
@@kevinbissinger I have to agree with the rest and disregard that opinion as your own tonedeaf subjectivity. Commercials these days are far more obnoxious because (much like many modern fixtures of entertainment) they try way too hard and come from the same old cookie-cutter attempts at over stimulation: absurd humor and hype mentality, the kind that marketing huddles have beaten to the point of utter banality.
This is the age of zero intellect.
I remember those. Only stupid kids had them because owning this was an intelligence test. Why would you want a device that had half songs and only a few albums when a nice walkman would do so much more? As you can tell from my punctuation I had a Pocket Rocker.
KiloOhm 😄
Last sentence needs a comma
As long as you don't buy Apple products you are ok
@@Wok_Agenda I think you mis typed and put Apple in instead of PC (of shit)
Matt Nes'heim Oh yes I love owning products with no usb ports and laptops that cost over 2000. Let's not forget the utter lack of gaming potential
10:31 "Hail Satan, he has come."
Pocket Rockers is trying to indoctrinate the kids.
0:35 I wanna go back in time to the '80s! It seemed like so much fun!
Lord Sandwich No joke, it actually kind of was
It was so much simpler. Earlier generations said that to us, but this time it’s really true.
I was 18 in 1988. I'll take 2018, thanks.
Pook365 Internet? Did you have internet in the 80s? I sure didn’t...
That’s all I was thinking, I just wish I got to experience all that fun. The 21st century is honestly terrible.
Were they *really* wearing them as jewellery in the 80’s?!
probably, it was a different time lol
People also wore silly bands in the 2000’s
Hell no! (Not this one, anyway.
Josh Bacon a few of us had these but nah, no one wore them as jewelry. Haha
I remember kids wearing these in the late 1980's.
Another clever fisher price product.
We need to see the fisher price camcorder reviewed Mr. Techmoan!
Wish I had one of these when I was a kid. I'm one of those people who listens to the same song over, and over, and over. Great video!
Hmmm. there didn't seem to be any satanic messages at all. Bummer.
custardo well there's a blank side so you could put something special on the cassette for others to find.
Techmoan day is the best day. Thank you for your insightful, informative, funny and entertaining videos.
“What kind of kid would’ve been into Genesis?”
A cool kid with excellent tastes, that’s who!! 😎
I remember seeing these in the stores. I had been making my own dubs of LP's for years. Other than seeing them in the store, about all else I can remember is the genuinely annoying commercials making a shambles of CCR's Down on The Corner. Still, I do very much enjoy your videos. Thank you!
Pocket Rockers... I choose You!!
Speaking of which, there’s a “Don’t Say You Love Me” Hit Clips if I recall correctly.
Poket Rockers: Unite!
Cylume Pokerok???
Cylume
true
I forgot about these. It's so interesting how quickly 35 years can melt away around me just by watching stuff like this or a few ads or shows I remember as a much younger kid.
POCKET ROCKERS... the name sounds like a bad anime from the 2000's
Steven Ryoter wtf is your pfp
Like there such thing as a good anime
ROCKET POCKERS
@@tannert8361 yes, hentai
@@IdontKnow-nm8bz you gotta point I cant even lie
I cant imagine a world where kids listen to Phil Collins, the past blows my tiny mind!
megazenn22 I watched MTV when I was 7!
I listened “in the air tonight” when i was 7 with an old westinghouse portable radio. Was pretty awesome
I got my first walkman for my 7th birthday in 1990 and Tina Turner, Rolling Stones and Phil Collins tapes with it. Guess what, I listened the shit out of Phil Collins. My mother couldn't stand me screaming 'susussudio!!' from the top of my lungs.
We were the MTV Generation!
I did. Didn’t even wear a jacket outside while listening either.
i can't overlook the fact that it loads like an M1 Garand, even ejects lol. Would be my favorite fidget toy
I remember playing with a couple hit clips when i was little and wondering how they worked internally... I have no idea how I ended up with them in the first place however as I was very young at the time... To this day that tiny toy boombox is still what i associate the company with...
Meanwhile in 2018 I have a microSD card in my phone with over 2500 songs on it
And it's less than half full
Aaand some people would say it is as outdated as pocket rocker, because all the cool kids stream it nowadays
@@Ridcally Perhaps, but when the zombie apocalypse happens, il still have all my music while I'm hiding in my bunker
Here in 2020 there's a micro SD double the capacity and lower in cost than one from last year.
MWB Gaming everybody gangsta until your microSD card gets corrupted
@@ilmmazum and il restore a backup from my NAS
I still have my pink and black one, I got it and a case to carry extra tapes for Christmas one year. I'll be 44 in March. My kids had hit clips.
I knew my Mobius loop had a place in life😍
Trekky On some cars the serpentine belt is s Möbius strip.
Can't lie, I like the sound of that commercial's cover of "Down on the Corner".
It was a great commercial in its day and even now. However, marketing that to 8 year olds doomed it. Had it played whole songs, been slightly bigger, and been marketed to kids a bit older, it would have been the poor teen's Walkman. Walkmsm was still the better choice.
Never had this but I did have hit clips and this is so much cooler and that sound of inserting the mini cassette is SO satisfying
One of my younger female cousins had this with a few of the tapes, but I always laughed at her since I had a normal cheapo portable AM/FM Tape deck with a built in speaker, and shoulder strap. Man I truly miss that thing.
they should have had one of ""Confusion" by New Order (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix)" AKA the music from the club scene in blade. They could have just made a perfect loop of it and never had a fadeout and it could have just played forever.
I found one of these new in box in a junk shop in like 1997 and did the exact same experiment of trying to put the tape into a standard cassette.
1980s corporate office" lets rewrite CCR!" classic lol
Willy and the Poorboys and their Pocket Rockers
still waiting for that hit clips video...
Your wait is over. It came out today!
It's almost as if they were made to be a collector's item in the future.
Lol I had one & it played that song that goes “Heaven is a place on Earth...”. Thank you for this video I completely forgot about these...
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You just have to put on smooth.fm these days in australia, they play it like twice a day 😂
Belinda Carlisle, ex of the GoGos!
I miss the puppets. BRING BACK THE PUPPETS PLEASE! *pouts*
Love the videos regardless, keep up the awesome work.
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mipmipmipmipmip I've been in love with a comment before, the hardest part is when you're out of upvotes.
Tbh, I really like that Mat uses the mupets only when he has an idea for a skit. Forced comedy is usually a crappy comedy.
These definitely have a leg up on hit clips. 2, 3 minute versions of songs with better audio quality to boot lol
I have no recollection of these and I live in the US.
Also, back in 1988 I was still buying 45's to play singles.
You were probably too old for their demographic. I was 6 in 1988 and have vivid memories of these.
6:07 It's like a cute baby 8-track!
I don't remember ever actively buying a portable tape player, but it seems like I always had a couple floating around. I think I may have got them as prizes at events, or maybe even gifts.... I just remember they'd kind of show up here and there. I don't think I ever had a Walkman or brand name player.
I had a real Discman though... I miss the days of walking around holding my Discman level so it wouldn't skip... my friend had a newer one where you could actually take the disc out for a while and it'd keep playing because of the fancy shock protection, but mine was a pretty early skipping model. The skipping wasn't that bad but it definitely happened if you weren't careful.
This also unlocks memories of wishing I had a Sega CDX (Genesis + Sega CD combo in the form factor of a Discman) so I could carry it around to play audio cds and still be able to play games... of course you'd have to haul a case of games and cables and controllers and all that around to do so..............
Never had a CDX. I did used to take my Sega CD around to friends houses quite a bit though since I was the only one that had one. Maybe that's what made me want a portable one.
I saw another video on Hit clips a while ago, I seem to recall the sound quality on them was horrendous. This at least seems to at least have half decent sound.