ZapIt GameWave Review: Canada's Exclusive "Game Console"

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  • @soteful9949
    @soteful9949 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    I bought this many years ago used for $20. I eventually pulled the power board with the cable, and I now use the LED on the board as a fake security light for my window.

    • @xAlexZifko
      @xAlexZifko 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Holy hell,you're saying there's one out there running in the wild?

    • @soteful9949
      @soteful9949 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@xAlexZifko It used to run until I took it apart.

    • @uzaiyaro
      @uzaiyaro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      “It used to run until I took it apart.”
      I feel attacked.

    • @iamfreeareyou681
      @iamfreeareyou681 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Except that nobody would be fooled by that, because homes don't use security lights in the window. Even a vehicle with a real alarm, doesn't have a security light. Those are always fake to pretend you have an alarm. Really though, they tell every thief out there "I don't have an alarm, and I'm not close enough to see you do anything". Because if you were there, you wouldn't be pretending you have an alarm, you'd turn it off.

  • @RenegadePandaZ
    @RenegadePandaZ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

    GameWave sounds somehow more like a fake TV show game console than Game Sphere.

    • @marccaselle8108
      @marccaselle8108 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Drake and Josh have entered the chat...

    • @bobtimus
      @bobtimus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      SPHERICAL!!!

    • @casanovafunkenstein5090
      @casanovafunkenstein5090 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The Tesser-Active Vision Multidimensional 3D Interactive Multi-Player

    • @marccaselle8108
      @marccaselle8108 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@casanovafunkenstein5090 lol

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It totally does!😂

  • @probably_afk
    @probably_afk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I can't believe Canada didn't make a Terrance and Phillip game for this.

  • @mobilegamer101
    @mobilegamer101 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The object of sudoku is to get 1 to 9 in each line and each block without a number being doubled

  • @marblemunkey
    @marblemunkey 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    "Surprisingly, some Biblical games"
    My dirst assumption hearing the description of this machine that those would be the primary focus, honestly.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It wasn't a primary focus until a couple years after it released due to poor sales & the company was desperate to try & boost sales.

    • @SixteenTonesStudio
      @SixteenTonesStudio 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I had the same reaction, somehow I knew that's where it was headed. Maybe it's the tendency of religious groups to go against the "secular" mainstream, but it struck me as primed for "purity gaming" development

  • @thomasfrazier3378
    @thomasfrazier3378 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Guessing all the games have no conflict, and all characters end up getting along in the end.

  • @Lennyg845
    @Lennyg845 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I bought one off of an old lady on Facebook market place. She said she got it from a church daycare that closed. 😅

  • @TemporaryName80
    @TemporaryName80 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Being from Canada, it originally came with 'a boot disk' which was labelled "About disk"
    😳

  • @jnharton
    @jnharton 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Slightly better than the "VHS game console" attempts of the past.

  • @SimonCallahan
    @SimonCallahan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    My brother found one of these at a thrift store years ago and offered to buy it for me, but I declined. I kind of wish I had.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      They're rare, but pretty much worthless...for now.

  • @hsrfest
    @hsrfest 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    im curious, since the discs are just regular dvds, could they be played on a regular dvd player?

    • @justanotheryoutubechannel
      @justanotheryoutubechannel 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I think it’s unlikely to be readable on a standard player, the discs are the same but the data on it might be in a different format and a normal player won’t understand the code for the gamewave software.
      What might happen is a Dreamcast like scenario where putting a disc in a standard player will just result in it reading a small area of DVD-compatible data in the centre which presents a message saying it’s only compatible with GameWave consoles.

    • @ZacabebOTG
      @ZacabebOTG 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The overlaid graphics look just slightly more sophisticated than what DVD Video supports, so they can't be regular DVD Video.

  • @genericuser456-dm4wi
    @genericuser456-dm4wi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    one is not simply the CEO of an obscure console company and not get arrested for fraud

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Funny enough, the CEO was found guilty in 2013, a few years after the company shut down.

    • @niceoftheprincess3197
      @niceoftheprincess3197 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Guizmondo

  • @Daminite
    @Daminite 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    5:15 Anyone else see the ant

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Oh my god, I didn't even notice that!😲 They've been everywhere throughout the house & I keep this place pretty clean. The struggle is real.🥲

    • @Jeff-ss6qt
      @Jeff-ss6qt 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@techtechboom9339Try borax powder mixed with sugar. They take it back with them and die.

    • @madmax2069
      @madmax2069 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I seen it crawling to the left of the controller holder

    • @madmax2069
      @madmax2069 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@techtechboom9339haha and you put your hand right on top of it. It was walking pretty slow until you picked the box up and brushed against the ant, and then it took off

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@madmax2069 The ants have won the battle, but I will win the war!

  • @CycoMoe
    @CycoMoe 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great Video! Honestly surprised by how you don't have way more subs! You've earned my follow

  • @glizzy2.O
    @glizzy2.O 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Cool! I'm Canadian and I've never heard of this before. I'll bet this channel's gonna do well 👍

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Just doing it for fun & spreading my knowledge to fellow nerds/geeks of the world!

  • @badcatalex
    @badcatalex 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's actually not Canada exclusive, my parents got one somewhere around 2006 or so as a part of a US release test sorta thing. It didn't actually get properly released here, I think.

  • @Jdbye
    @Jdbye 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Judging by the condition of the discs, nobody played this thing. Can't blame them.

  • @smoothlyrough512
    @smoothlyrough512 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Surprised that AVGN hasn't done an episode on this.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Someone get ahold of him immediately!

  • @MuckyPup115
    @MuckyPup115 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a kid back in the 1990s, I remember everyone on my block being jealous of Jimmy’s GameWave. It was THE hot console that year just barely beating out the Nintendo and Sega at a close

  • @suoquainen
    @suoquainen 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I had an Atari 7800 as a child and i'm sure i had much more fun with it than i would with this thing. :)

  • @yellowblanka6058
    @yellowblanka6058 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Sounds like something that would be sold on a 1am informercial as an alternative to “expensive” game consoles….”Keeping up with these expensive video-games taking its toll on your wallet? There has to be a better way!”

  • @eddyguerdo2488
    @eddyguerdo2488 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I bought this console a few years ago and still enjoy playing GEMZ with my friends today.

  • @brentdove7358
    @brentdove7358 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    You have ants.

    • @firewalker1372
      @firewalker1372 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They could be uncles 🤷‍♂️.

    • @ValTek_Armory
      @ValTek_Armory 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@firewalker1372nah, I think they're cousins

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The struggle is real. I keep the house very clean & yet they still find a way. We get ants usually every summer, but they're REALLY bad this year. It's like they're learning to navigate around the ant traps lol.

  • @mattnordsell9760
    @mattnordsell9760 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is similar to the NuOn, but that was technology built into different DVD players that weren't designed to be like video game systems specifically and that actually had the ability to have an actual game pad. Adam Korlik and some others have some videos about it and it was released around the same time that this was as well.

  • @SoulforSale
    @SoulforSale 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Patiently anticipating the GameWave mini

    • @smoothlyrough512
      @smoothlyrough512 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dude, they just announced the Game Wave Pro for holiday 2024

  • @mischiefthedegenerateratto7464
    @mischiefthedegenerateratto7464 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I understand brazil doing this but canada???? Did you have video game drought too?

  • @GodlikeOCD
    @GodlikeOCD 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Any game using inferred for controls should be considered a scam

  • @Retroman8000
    @Retroman8000 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The expansion port was for additional controllers and peripherals. Canadian law states that video game manufacturers (not small plug n play) provide handicap accessible options. Even if they said they were being made and never made any the port covers up the fact that they are not intentionally falsifying information...oh yeah we're making disable persons controllers see we even put in a port for it

    • @aiodensghost8645
      @aiodensghost8645 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Port could even pull a PS Vita 1000 and just not connect to anything.

  • @ricenoodles632
    @ricenoodles632 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    2005 was a special year with the highest number of tech abominations released in the same year

  • @lazydazey9282
    @lazydazey9282 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Gaming Consoles are all about the games pure and simple a good controller is a very important second.

  • @_BullsEyeBob
    @_BullsEyeBob 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    We didn’t get to solve the puzzle!! The _____ _____ gets the ______.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The gamer guy gets the girl?🤔😂 LOL

    • @smoothlyrough512
      @smoothlyrough512 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The early bird gets the worm 😂

  • @JoshuaJaeger
    @JoshuaJaeger 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I took a shot for everytime he said "I'm not sure" or "I have no idea" and now I've been drunk for 11 days straight. Thanks TechTechBoom!

  • @meticulouselectronics
    @meticulouselectronics 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    But what happens if you put gamewave discs into a regular dvd player?

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I honestly haven't tried. My guess is either it wouldn't play at all, or would just plan the pre-rendered video parts of the disc.

    • @Jerome-C
      @Jerome-C 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@techtechboom9339 honestly a DVD player with a remote could do exactly the same, i would not surprise me at all !! there is no 3D graphic or any other "console" stuff in there

  • @HegelianMetaphysics
    @HegelianMetaphysics 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I think I know exactly how they made those games. They make it with a DVD creator or editor. The games are simple enough that they don't need much code to "look" right.

  • @Styphoryte
    @Styphoryte 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Imagine asking for an xbox and getting one of these things, that may be one of the most cursed gifts ever. I'd prefer the prank of an xbox retail box with something else in it rather than getting this thing as a child! Lmao. Underrated channel for sure man, good vid! I've never heard of such a DVD game console lol. Learn somethin everyday xD, when I thought I've seen them all. Nope. I bet there's a ton of weird old game consoles from other countries, never even thought of this.

  • @encarn
    @encarn 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "Basically" this is "basically"a review of "basically" a DVD player.
    Sorry you said it to much it botherd me.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, I tend to do that a lot considering most of these video aren't scripted😂

  • @nathanlamarr7276
    @nathanlamarr7276 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    13 games were released on this device all between 2006-07 and out of nowhere a random trivia game dropped in 2010...😅 Like wtf 🤣

  • @gentuxable
    @gentuxable 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Like Zapit didn't hear about CD-i that had just failed before that time! Or they were just like who the .. is Philips?

    • @casanovafunkenstein5090
      @casanovafunkenstein5090 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In fairness, the CDi is a quite different product.
      CDi was trying to take advantage of Philips' patent for the CD by creating a platform around the format that would extend the existing market for audio CDs and establish the CD as a home video format, with some additional software programs.
      This is taking a Dvd player and tacking on some cheap additional hardware in order to appeal to the kind of older non-gamers who would regularly play simple games on services like Teletext using their TV remote.
      I believe that their ultimate ambition was to encourage certain video distributers to include interactive extras that required one of these players to access, but the leap in technology as compared to a regular DvD player was far too small to justify it.
      The CDi was far more ambitious, so I can see another company seeing how that failed and thinking that the best way to avoid calamity would be to aim much lower. The CDi was really impressive when it came out, but it was a less impressive piece of hardware than the 3DO, which had really impressive software support by comparison due to the low licensing costs to produce software and people expected 3DO to wind up being cheaper in the long run due to the competition between licensees for the hardware specifications.
      Obviously, the PS1 came out and completely overshadowed the earlier systems built to use CD and because Sony shared the patent for CD with Philips they had a massive advantage when it came to the price point on release, especially since the PS1 dispensed with the home theatre ambitions of the CDi and 3DO and instead focused on the ability to render 3D graphics at a level of quality that had never been seen in the home.
      In a sense, if the PS1 hadn't come out the CDi would have been successful in seeding the idea of the CD as a gaming and multimedia format, as the 32bit era was going to be defined by CD as the storage medium. It's just that Sony didn't have to pay Philips to use it due to the patent being in both companies' names (amongst others) so Philips never got the royalty income they would have received otherwise and never really participated in the gaming space again.
      It's kind of like how Xbox 360 had an external HD-DvD drive accessory instead of a blu-ray drive. They didn't want to compete against Sony whilst also paying them money for every console they sold.

    • @meetoo594
      @meetoo594 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is more like the nuon enabled dvd players that were dvd players with an extra chipset and controller ports that could play ps1(ish) quality games. A few manufacturers produced dvd players with the chipset but they didnt really market the game playing bit and there were only 5 games, one of which was region locked to s.korea and a single samsung player. The only decent game was a version of tempest 2000 that is actually better than the Atari jaguar version. Different machines had different controllers bundled and not all games worked with all controllers so the entire thing was botched and ill thought out really. There were also a grand total of 4 dvd movies that used nuon for interactive features like chapter preview.
      If you ever come across a dvd player with the nuon logo on it, snap it up as they are incredibly rare nowadays.

  • @greghughes8147
    @greghughes8147 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Gemz looks truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous

  • @uzaiyaro
    @uzaiyaro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hey, at least it’s not a Famiclone.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      LOL but at least Famiclones can play actual games instead of DVD "games"😆

  • @BigPicture-s5q
    @BigPicture-s5q 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sudoku find the missing number, you know if you gone wrong somewhere because you shouldn't have two of the same numbers in any column vertically or horizontally.

  • @xx7secondsxx
    @xx7secondsxx 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That clear side looks rad!

  • @chom6096
    @chom6096 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is the console that kids would desperately want in a generic early 2000s family movie. Like “mommmm please get me super dragon fighters for the GameWave!”

  • @GreyHulk2156
    @GreyHulk2156 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "Quiz Konnect" was the Indian game.

  • @SilasonLinux
    @SilasonLinux 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I want one now. It's whimsical. I love it.

  • @justin81981
    @justin81981 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have one of these hooked up to the tv, most of the library of games. Fun on boring weekends.

  • @bickle1247
    @bickle1247 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A built in controller holder is kinda neat

  • @stevew8513
    @stevew8513 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have a lot of consoles, nearly all of them have at least one game that is worth playing. Letter Zap! is the one for the GameWave. It's an interesting idea for a game system, it's just there's so little power under the hood that it wasn't capable of much more than trivia games. I don't have Gemz, so I didn't even know it could do graphics. Everything I've played on it was just word based.

  • @BigHushAffiliate
    @BigHushAffiliate 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I bought one of these at Goodwill brand new box and sealed. I have it in my Public Storage and I’ve never even turned it on once.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe it'll become valuable one day...maybe.😅

  • @purplepeak8575
    @purplepeak8575 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "exclusive to Canada" and somehow ended up down here in a thrift store and then into my hands.

  • @pierrepaj2367
    @pierrepaj2367 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Bon design ,un GRAND REGRET QUE CE NE SOIT PAS UN NOUVEAU BOITIER POUR Y METTRE LES COMPOSANT D'UNE NINTENDO 64

  • @maverickblah
    @maverickblah หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm a 40 year old Canadian, and I never heard of that console ever lol

  • @TimothyTimPSP
    @TimothyTimPSP 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for the video. I would like to add that you should get a microphone for better sound quality and if you make a mistake (using the same word too many times) start over. Different camera angles will help with the cuts. I am in no way trolling you. I've had medical problems and haven't been able to do much with my channel over the past few years. Your channel has promise. Thanks again

  • @omegatails
    @omegatails 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That is one strange looking console cool it could play old dvds

  • @kakurerud7516
    @kakurerud7516 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    games look like really complex dvd menus that lean really hard on the built in mpeg2 decoder. Probably using the enhanced dvd menu tech that came out in the mid 2000s to compete with bluray java apps. I forget what it was called tho

  • @privatepuffy
    @privatepuffy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    reminds me of the cdi from philips

  • @Jerome-C
    @Jerome-C 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Waoo a new console ! i discover a new console in 2024 ? can't believe it.... even if it's a bad one, it's a new one for me :) congrats

    • @Gamm_array
      @Gamm_array 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      same

  • @HydeSkull
    @HydeSkull 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Imagine you're a kid and this is the only thing you ever knew about video games.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'd feel sooo bad for them.☹

    • @HydeSkull
      @HydeSkull 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@techtechboom9339 Some equally sad is having access to those good consoles like SNES, but never being able to get ahold of the banger games.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@HydeSkull I can relate, especially growing up with a Wii & getting shovelware for Christmas😅. (PS. I love the Wii, it does still have some good games)

    • @HydeSkull
      @HydeSkull 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@techtechboom9339 I got to play some of the good SNES games at other people's houses, but my own library was pretty weak lol. I think Mario Kart was my best game.

  • @ashdjones
    @ashdjones 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Purple, legs on left side, funkwonki - thats the inhouse style name.

  • @Mysterestalkshow
    @Mysterestalkshow 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Lock 5 game seems to be based on Mastermind

  • @Ccoolty
    @Ccoolty 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Wii Mini was also a Canadian exclusive

    • @Challengerx1x
      @Challengerx1x 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I bought a Wii mini in California when it released so no it was not

    • @Ccoolty
      @Ccoolty 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Challengerx1x The Wii Mini was first released on December 7, 2012, exclusively in Canada with a MSRP of CA$99.99.[5] It was later released in Europe on March 22, 2013,[4] and in the United States on November 17, 2013.

    • @JoshuaFante
      @JoshuaFante 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wii minis are in America

    • @badcatalex
      @badcatalex 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No it's not, in fact several US cities were test markets for it.

  • @uzaiyaro
    @uzaiyaro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’d love to see a teardown of this. I’m curious about the hardware specs of it.

    • @iamnobody2
      @iamnobody2 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i think it might literally just be a dvd player

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I did see one teardown video online, can't remember which channel. It honestly is pretty basic on the inside of the console, no surprise.😒

    • @ChristopheVerdonck
      @ChristopheVerdonck 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      it uses a Mediamatics 8611 SOC, 16 Megabytes of Sram, 2 Megabyte of nor flash, a EEPROM for storage, a 2 channel Audio DAC and a Altera MAX II CPLD to glue it all together.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ChristopheVerdonck Basically translates to: slightly more advanced DVD player.

  • @themadviking5746
    @themadviking5746 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That looks like the first DVD player .

  • @Tweaker420666
    @Tweaker420666 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    lived in canada a very long time, and never heard of it.

  • @Hereospawn-ut7fv
    @Hereospawn-ut7fv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Don't let that ant I saw crawling near your console get inside--who knows what that little bugger might do, eh??😅😅

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We get ants almost every time around this time of year, & I keep the house very clean. But they've been horrible this year.😫

    • @Hereospawn-ut7fv
      @Hereospawn-ut7fv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@techtechboom9339 Understandable! He was pretty sneaky!😉

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Hereospawn-ut7fv I don't live like a pig, rest assured.😂

  • @KingGameReview
    @KingGameReview 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So it's similar to the Nuon DVD players?

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Similar concept...kinda? I think? Although the Nuon devices were way more capable.

  • @chem525
    @chem525 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It was called a LameWave when it was out. A lot of investors lost their money.

  • @sefzxm6486
    @sefzxm6486 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "basically"

  • @JosiahGould
    @JosiahGould 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Okay, this thing might have potential for someone who wants to poke around. It's all done in Lua scripting. So... anyone have a disc image I could play with?

  • @QuestForTori
    @QuestForTori 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My mom bought this for me in America - I know you clarified this had a US release too, but you still said it was a Canada-exclusive console, but given that it DID release in America, I don't think that's a valid statement

    • @imcomputer7147
      @imcomputer7147 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      0:35

    • @imcomputer7147
      @imcomputer7147 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He said that

    • @meticulouselectronics
      @meticulouselectronics 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think he is meaning created in canada. Don't think canada has released any consoles previously

    • @justanotheryoutubechannel
      @justanotheryoutubechannel 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think it only got a full nationwide release in Canada, in America it was only a limited release.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I believe it had a very limited release in the US by small online retail only.

  • @turkeyman888
    @turkeyman888 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I could see Juilian and Ricky playing this.

  • @cybernit3
    @cybernit3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So National Semiconductor made the 8611 cpu for this console; I honestly never heard of this console and live in Canada too.

  • @johnsmith6217
    @johnsmith6217 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Good gosh I would have been pissed if my parents got me that thing. (It would be cool to have just for the collection though) I remember my friend Jarrod was mad when he got a dreamcast instead of a PS2. I think we played It one night and it never got used again.

  • @marccaselle8108
    @marccaselle8108 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I never this or heard if it. Thanks for reviewing this thing lol.

  • @Cinemaphile7783
    @Cinemaphile7783 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A Canadian console and no hockey game? This travesty will not stand!

  • @FunkyStudios
    @FunkyStudios 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Console of a year baby

  • @lassikinnunen
    @lassikinnunen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Christian wii at home

  • @tinfoil_hatsociety4866
    @tinfoil_hatsociety4866 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    my family bought of those near xmas, and we only played once. Its sitting in a closet collecting dust

  • @onometre
    @onometre 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Interestingly I found one of these at a thrift store in Colorado

  • @meetoo594
    @meetoo594 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Looks a bit like a nuon dvd player but from Temu. The nuon was technically much, much better (it was 32 bit and graphically not far off the playstation iirc) but sold far less units than this.

  • @SimonQuigley
    @SimonQuigley 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When you buy a games "console" from Dollarama

  • @Ronin1977-v6l
    @Ronin1977-v6l 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have heard more about ZapIt GameWave than this channel

  • @Eternyl_bliss-nj9se
    @Eternyl_bliss-nj9se 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I bought this at a yard sale several years ago... who is jealous?

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Welcome to the GameWave club! 😆👍

  • @ChillyTheDog21
    @ChillyTheDog21 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The system has pretty much a quarter of megabytes of Memory for Game saves

  • @RazzerPaper
    @RazzerPaper 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Always If i think i have see them all... A new Video comes Up😂

  • @TiBiAstro
    @TiBiAstro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Was this a Nuon system?

    • @Hamdad
      @Hamdad 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That's what I was thinking, seems like a similar concept.

    • @stevew8513
      @stevew8513 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      No, the Nuon was a chipset that was capable of 3D games, somewhere between the N64 and Dreamcast in quality. The GameWave was a slightly more powerful DVD decoder, not capable of 3D gaming. I have a couple Nuon players and a GameWave, they aren't even close in power to each other.

    • @Aeduo
      @Aeduo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@stevew8513 Kinda reminds me of a CD-i with a bit more video decoding capability and maybe some more memory.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not quite, but a very similar concept!

  • @NYHeeb
    @NYHeeb 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fact it came out in time it did is crazy. I thought it was from 2000. So odd waste time developing and selling it.

  • @stadtbekanntertunichtgut
    @stadtbekanntertunichtgut 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Cool channel bro! But who the hell thought this box was a good idea and would sell? 😂

  • @zimzam9166
    @zimzam9166 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Absolute garbage. I love it. Take my subscription. Hopefully I was the 1000th sub

  • @TheFirstHunt
    @TheFirstHunt 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Damn, the delay on that remote is like trying to play Skyrim on PS3/360

    • @vulcanitu2578
      @vulcanitu2578 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Skyrim on 360 works fine

    • @TheFirstHunt
      @TheFirstHunt 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@vulcanitu2578 I have it on 360, and PS3. There's a ton of input delay. It's definitely playable and you can adapt to it but it is there.

    • @OtomoTenzi
      @OtomoTenzi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheFirstHunt Yeargh, but at least those 2 old-ass systems could still handle a somewhat decent playable port of Skyrim... This POS obviously can't! 👎

    • @OtomoTenzi
      @OtomoTenzi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@vulcanitu2578 I still play it nowadays, and there are like tons of sidequests I haven't even completed yet... My 360 is at least 15+ years old, and it still works and reads discs FLAWLESSLY. The same can't be said for this sad POS!!! 👎🗑

  • @yiorgo187
    @yiorgo187 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Are the games locked to the system or can you play them on any DVD player?

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I've wondered the same thing! I may have to try it myself!

  • @47Jonesy
    @47Jonesy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    expansion port was probably for an old ps\2 mouse or keyboard

  • @xenocide2121
    @xenocide2121 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    but can you stick the gamewave game in a new dvd player and run the game o.o

  • @pukalo
    @pukalo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    5:17 bug crawling across the carpet.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The ant go marching through our house every summer no matter what we do, hurrah hurrah.😆😆

  • @SalivatingSteve
    @SalivatingSteve 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Looks like the Indrema L300.

    • @techtechboom9339
      @techtechboom9339  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Kinda does actually! I'd imagine that console would've been a hell of a lot better than the GameWave. If it ended up releasing that is.

  • @randomrc601
    @randomrc601 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    wow, never heard of it

  • @heyguy2767
    @heyguy2767 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "cheap DVD player that doubled as a game console"
    Ah, the PS2 strategy. 4:08

    • @heyguy2767
      @heyguy2767 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Storage thing is not even attached, in any way; 4:32 my mind was blowned.

    • @heyguy2767
      @heyguy2767 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ant.

  • @OtomoTenzi
    @OtomoTenzi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    WTF would wanna buy this $CAM??? 😆

  • @OkieOrganix
    @OkieOrganix 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Example of why I don’t buy anything Canadian 😂

  • @HUNT3R737
    @HUNT3R737 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gamewave, perfect for throwing away