I recently searched for TH-cam videos of LCD games. Hadn't given them much thought since I actually played them in elementary school 35 years ago during lunch breaks. The video would start, it would show the folded "Donkey Kong" game, the presenter would unfold it, the start button was pressed and at the first beep of the speaker? I swear I instantly smelled the smell of 20 kids' lunch boxes being opened. It was so vivid and I was totally unprepared for it. Completely forgot that smell (luckily) and was blown away at how the mind/memory seems to work. Thanx for the vid and the memories!
So privileged to be part of the Retro Man Cave experience. And meeting Neil and visiting the Cave itself was an enlightening experience too. To check us out here head on over to th-cam.com/users/gamesyouloved - thanks for watching!
@MichaelOglesby has pointed out on Twitter that TRON IS emulated and you can play it right now online here: archive.org/details/hh_tmtron - so I know what I'm doing this afternoon. Thanks Michael
The game I remember from my childhood was a Grandstand 'Invader from Space'. Just seeing and hearing one on another video brought back memories, wish I had looked after things like that better when I was younger!
Thanks for making an old man happy.😊 I remember a lot of these games 🎮 from the last day of term when we were aloud to take in one toy each. We would all have ago on each others games and no matter how good your game was or what your game was you always thought your mates was better. Maybe just because you had over played your own.
The Donkey Kong Jr isn't a VFD it's a coloured LCD that reflects on the mirror at the front .. the white plastic at the top is the "skylight" .. it's a very clever way to get colour image without using VFD
Give me a OLED screen with Pac-Man and you can take my money. For me personally that would be a better emulation of a CRT rather than the back lit LCD.
Probably the LCD screen is crap quality. If you have a good one, with MVA panel for example or the new iPhone/clearblack smartphone IPS ones (somehow they are much better than iMac /big IPS screens), an LCD actually looks better than the original CRT, especially on Pac Man. The contrast on the CRT was not that great on an original cab, maybe 1:200, and Pac-Man is not really needing the softness.,
I had the traditional game & watch as a kid, but my mates had the colour flip ones which let light through the back, and you viewed the game through a mirror. As a kid I used to have the reflexes to beat the scores, and I remember that if you got to 300 without loosing a life, then you would get double points. That's how I remember it anyway. 😁 Astro Wars and Caveman. I used to pay them for hours, the sounds drove my parents nuts.
Even though there's not a whole lot of actual "game" to a lot of these, I absolutely LOVE the aesthetic of it! I would love a mini-arcade of certain games.
Ah, so this is where the awesome collection of handhelds in the new cave came from? I've been following GamesYouLoved forever, so good to put a face (and voice!) to the name. 🙂
Another great collection. I remember as a boy on a holiday in Hastings my grandparents purchasing me Demon Driver from Woolworths as a gift. Never easy getting new batteries though! Thanks for sharing!
very nice video thanks . . . as for me I had the tomy steering wheel thing and those lcd handhelds were quite common things in the early 80s also on the austrian countryside where we referred to them generally as tricotronics which may have been the local distribution brand name of the original nintendo game and watch ones . . . great fun and then got a cpc 464 :) and my favorite lcd handheld was called western saloon
How lovely ,what memories you just dug out for me!! I actually still have 1 handheld left from 1983 when i was 13 😱 and that's Grandstands Pocket Scramble .
Ah, the Game & Watch smell! My strongest memory of getting the Zelda one as a birthday present was the strong plasticky/electronicky smell. I still have it and, although it's weakened over the course of twenty plus years, the smell's still there!
The Game & Watch time was very great. My favorite game was Donkey Kong. maybe I will get a Zelda like that again someday. Greetings from RetroGameCity :-)
Im a table top and Game&Watch collector and i have most of these. I love them! You certainly showed the most common models. Alien Attack is great! And so is Gakken Frogger and Gakken Amidar. Theres a total of 4 Nintendo table tops (plus one by coleco with the same case body design)
I loved Astro Wars. I remember even putting a bit of tape over the speaker grill (just above the power switch) wasn't enough to stop it waking up the entire house early in the morning.
I had so many of these games and used others at friends houses in primary school at the time. Wow the nostalgia fix right there. The sights and sounds are so good. I still have one Game and watch handheld and a non working Galaxy 1000 which was played to death at the time. Great stuff, thanks.
Great vid, that was, I've still got the Grandstand Munchman table top game, ( main Christmas present 1982 ) which was like a clone of Pac-Man, also Grandstand invader from space, both still with boxes & instruction leaflets. They used to eat through batteries, quickly purchased a mains adaptor! Also still got Nintendo game and watch Vermin game, where you knock moles back into the ground. They all still work too, amazing when they're pushing 35 years old, most of these games. Stuff was better made back in those days better quality Japanese components.
Who doesn't love astro wars? I had one called Dracula way back. Only watched snippets so far Neil, going to enjoy the whole vid on the train home....if I miss my stop I'm blaming you!!
@@gamesyouloved I remember it being quite good fun. I had scramble, astro wars, Dracula and a sort of rally driving one that had a little steering wheel and gear shift (I think) if I recall correctly the car wasn't a graphic as such more an overlay that you moved about
@@gamesyouloved I've just checked TH-cam the only video I can find of Dracula the machine seems to be red and black. I'm sure mine was yellow and black. The game looks the same though 🤔
yup i had that game to, it was red , you get past the warewolf and chip at a wall to get thru then you pick up all the gold while avoiding the bats the you got open one of about 5 coffins that has a bat apearing randomly on the coffin then hope the one you open has no dracula inside but has the treasure,
@@BazzaHSpeccymad was it scramble or scrabble? there was one similar to it but much better my cousin had it i wanted to swap scramble or scrabble for it he said ill think about it, he never did lol
I had the Invader 2000 when I was young (I think I still have it somewhere in storage). I don't think mine had the badge (so I honestly didn't know what it was called until now). I really liked how you could plug headphones into the top port to get headphone sound. I picked it up second hand at a yard sale when I was very young (maybe 10-12yrs old). @11:22 it seems like you cut the section talking about Invader 2000 and the yellow one (which I have never seen and was very interested in knowing more about. I recently bought my dad a Galaga/Galaxian 1UP Arcade Cabinet here in the United States. He's going to freak at Christmas as he's a serious Galaga player (I've seen him his 3million before and reach levels around 70+ on a single credit easily). I plan to record a video of him seeing it for the first time. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to get him a better gift for the rest of his life, Galaga is the final gift for him really.
Love all the hand held and tabletop games 😁 great to see some of them up and running it brings back memories. Great show and tell episode Neil...😁😁😁 Kim 😁😁😁
I still have my boxed Galaxy Invader 1000. So many happy memories, I’ll never part with it. I also had a boxed Frogger which I sold for £5 back in 1990. Man, I wished I had of kept that!
I remember so many of these from my childhood. Either games I've owned or friends at the time. I still have (in the loft) the Astro Blaster game which I think is exactly the same as Alien Attack you have their but with a red case. That new 1/4 Pac Man cabinet is something else.
The tabletop Donkey Kong Jr doesn't use a vacuum fluorescent display, it uses a specially coloured LCD display, which is actually situated in the roof of the unit underneath a translucent bit of plastic and the surrounding room light provides the backlighting (you can see the translucent window on the top at 7:12), so the image gets lovely and bright if you put it near a window or shine a desk lamp onto it. There is then a 45 degree mirror that reflects the LCD screen forward out of the unit so you can see it. I've been collecting the old Game & Watch units over the past year and have all but the few unfeasibly expensive ones now, they are wonderful. There were 4 tabletop units released: Mario's Cement Factory, Popeye, Snoopy, and Donkey Kong Jr. They then used the same tech in the more portable "Panorama" series.
My childhood on one table! Astro Wars was one of my fave presents from Santa along with Scramble! I always yearned for the Tomy car every time a new Argos catalogue came out. I hope to collect them one day in the not too distant future.
The Galaxy Invader (yellow one) handheld was the only one I had back in the day. I played most of those displayed whilst I was in primary school, during free time just before half terms etc. An awesome array of handheld delights! Thank you gentlemen :)
My brother still has his grandstand astro wars that you have there. Still works. We used have huge fun with it. He got it for christmas in the early 80’s.
I've never known anyone else with a Galaxian machine. My brother had the Donkey Kong. Bought in the US around 1982. I also had the Demon Driver game! Awesome!
All I really can say Neil, is that I'm really jealous. I'm coming over by 3rd class rate travel by boat to be over, I'll be there in about 3 to 4 months. 8^) Nice work as always bro. Anthony..
1:22 i had that one, space turbo!! on that exact colour! oh man, feeling nostalgic now... pretty basic game but eh, when youre 10 years old, it looked amazing! thanks, mom and dad (it was very expensive back in 85)
DK Jr does NOT use a VFD. It uses a reverse-polarised LCD lit with daylight through the top of the machine, reflected into a mirror. You can see it more clearly in the Panorama screen handheld version. Same idea was used in that Tomytronic 3d game you had in your hand at 11:40. The downside is they can't be used in the dark. On the other hand a VFD sucks battery, while these don't draw any more power than a regular Game & Watch.
I used to have a hand held Battlestar Galactica back in the early 80's which i loved. Also spent many hours on astro wars scoring 9999 nearly every time i played.
That Authentic Nintendo Smell...ahhhh. Right up there with New Car Smell and New Figure Smell (that fragrance that emanated from a freshly opened Kenner Star Wars Action Figure)
Bandai FL Zaxxon back in Christmas 1984 & Grandstand Star Force back in Christmas 1985 were the VFD table top games of my childhood! Astro Wars was an annual favourite in the classroom during the 1980s around Christmas during the 1980s as well (along with proper purple blackberry jelly, when it had all the E numbers and tasted awesome)! :-D
I had the Donkey Kong game and watch. I remember a Japanese kid in my class bringing one back from a trip to Japan and everyone in the class including me fell in love with it (Donkey Kong arcade game was still king). First time I saw it in a store here in the US, I **had** to have it, and I did what all kids are wont to do- begged my parents who gifted it to me soon after :D My family also had that Demon Driver game, only it was called Digital Derby here. We also had another Tomy game called Blip. My favorite game the family had (not counting the Donkey Kong G&W!) was one from Entex called Galaxian 2. Sadly, all are long gone.
Wow. I had Astro Wars as a kid, I think we rescued it from a boot sale with a Scramble game too. Oh and the Tomy Dashboard! There was a kid at my primary school that always had a Game and watch, I vaguely remember one that had proper joypads.
I had 'Scramble' by Grandstand, passed down from my older brother...never figured out what happened to it, but i presume its either still in a barn somewhere, or was thrown out years ago when we moved out of London :(
6:44 > This uses a VFD Nope! The other Coleco tabletops did. DK Jr. has a printed background, with an LCD used to cover up the unused parts of the game, sort of like a regular game & watch game in reverse. also why it relies on an external light source while the VFDs are self-luminescent
wow that was freaky... i suddenly had a memory of playing on a turbo tomy from when i was very young.. like literally never recalled that before now, spooky when you suddenly remember something from decades ago!..
Very interesting video :) I only had one handheld multigame thing with tetris and tennis and stuff. Gameboy was to expensive for my parents. In their opinion.
Didn't realise that Space Invaders and/or Galaga and Pacman actually work quite well in whatever that kind of screen is called. Pacman looks much better than the console ports of the time.
Those lcd games where awesome back then, everybody at school had one. But playing them now, ..., the games where eh not the best :D New "bartop" arcade looks cool hopefully better build than those crappy arcade 1 up, but they are a bit pricy
I remember those Tiger hand helds being a staple of wet breaks in junior school! We would have brought in our grey brick Gameboys but the headmaster decided they were too valuable and banned them :(
Smelling your electronics...you Brits are alright in my book. I do the same thing with every new game, retro console, tabletop game, handheld device, and even top end cellphones. I have always done this and I started out doing it as a kid. I know I'm about to age myself but I was doing this way back in 1986 with Nes and Master System games. The first time I did this in front of my fiancee the look on her face was priceless. She was probably thinking "Oh great, I went home with a psycho." She was a good sport about it and now she partakes in the smelling of new games as well. Oh...she's a diehard gamer like me that plays everything. She's a good egg...
I had An early hand held (1979) where red line came down in either 1 of 3 columns and you had to avoid them , I cant remember what it was called. Tandy pocket Simon Bion Borg tennis Astro Wars Scrambler CGL Earth Invaders GrandStand Star Chess (like star trek chess played on TV .still have ) Novex cartridge console (£39 from Rumbelows) Zx81 Zx spectrum Zx Spectrum 48 3 x Atari Lynx (recently sold) Atari Jaguar + CD add-on (recently sold) N64 (recently sold) Game Cube HDMI (recently sold) Xbox 360 Xbox one x (recently sold)
Hi i see space turbo my brother had one in i had BMX Flyer there was another BMX game but not light up LCD, still have space turbo but in bits would like to get another. What happened to Tomy and Grandstand and others
Wow, they look amazing. Those grandstand/tomy games are in colour and light and actually resemble proper graphics and are crisp and clear. I didn't know these existed and have never seen one before until now, being born in 1989 i grew up with various tiger LCD games, we all knew they were poor games that were the worst version's of that particular game that was possible. But after seeing the tomy/grandstand stuff from around 1982 it is clear that tiger really had no excuse for such crap handhelds. It is actually possible to make a somewhat half decent game with that technology that uses a set of fixed images lit up bit by bit. Just look at the caveman game, the dinosaur is a full coloured animated image. Not just shitty simple and blurry outlines that barely resemble whatever it is meant to be displaying. That tron and astro wars look pretty awesome aswell.
@@RMCRetro Fun Fact: In grandstands ASTRO wars/epoch's galaxy ll, if you're high score goes pass 9999 you beat the whole game with a little message saying good on the top of the screen. And a little melody plays 6 to 8 times after you beat the game.
Hello guys First of all great upload. But can you please give me the name of the 2nd device you touched when mentioning it doesn't work. I am almost sure i had one of them in blue when I was younger. My older brother had all sorts growing up and I know the name of them all but please tell me the name of the white one you touch very early into the clip. Kind regards
remember having that Demon Driver game - think it was the first electronic game my parents brought for me. also had a Bandai Missile Invader (space invader clone) that was LED based with a 2-digit seven-segment LED display for scoring at the top.. Unfortunately I have no idea what happened to either of them.
I wish to have and play some of those lcd games. I had only the cheap ones, in the childhood. I can play modern games and older games, emulated on computer or phone, but it will never replace the feeling of holding and playing on original device. I had mainly brick games 99999 in 1 (mainly, because they were cheap, so my parents would buy me them a lot) which obviously was not true, but those gamea were very fun. Those lcd Sonic games, that were given in McDonalds, they were also okay. And I also had some bootleg lcd Mario and Pac-Man games, which both were not so good. Mario was somewhat playable, but Pac-Man was very zoomed in and because of that, you were loosing a lot, as you could not see ghost earlier, than them being very close to you.
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I recently searched for TH-cam videos of LCD games. Hadn't given them much thought since I actually played them in elementary school 35 years ago during lunch breaks. The video would start, it would show the folded "Donkey Kong" game, the presenter would unfold it, the start button was pressed and at the first beep of the speaker? I swear I instantly smelled the smell of 20 kids' lunch boxes being opened. It was so vivid and I was totally unprepared for it. Completely forgot that smell (luckily) and was blown away at how the mind/memory seems to work. Thanx for the vid and the memories!
@surfitlive lol
So privileged to be part of the Retro Man Cave experience. And meeting Neil and visiting the Cave itself was an enlightening experience too. To check us out here head on over to th-cam.com/users/gamesyouloved - thanks for watching!
Great, another channel to binge past videos! Subbed.
@@Neffers_UK Thanking you!
I had astro wars, it was my big gift Christmas 81, happy memories hearing those sounds and tunes again. And yes it was soooo loud 😁
@MichaelOglesby has pointed out on Twitter that TRON IS emulated and you can play it right now online here: archive.org/details/hh_tmtron - so I know what I'm doing this afternoon. Thanks Michael
Astro Wars! Even after all these years, the start of round fanfare is still burnt into my brain.
I had one as a kid. This is the first time I've seen someone review it.
Someone surly has emulated it in some manner by now,on PC? now wheres google search...;-)
Seems there`s an app store one.Google & apple.
doesn't it so!
I had Demon Driver, Astro Wars as a kid 😁
The game I remember from my childhood was a Grandstand 'Invader from Space'. Just seeing and hearing one on another video brought back memories, wish I had looked after things like that better when I was younger!
Thanks for making an old man happy.😊 I remember a lot of these games 🎮 from the last day of term when we were aloud to take in one toy each. We would all have ago on each others games and no matter how good your game was or what your game was you always thought your mates was better. Maybe just because you had over played your own.
The Donkey Kong Jr isn't a VFD it's a coloured LCD that reflects on the mirror at the front .. the white plastic at the top is the "skylight" .. it's a very clever way to get colour image without using VFD
Give me a OLED screen with Pac-Man and you can take my money. For me personally that would be a better emulation of a CRT rather than the back lit LCD.
Agreed, it looks if you're not exactly in the right place then you get a lot of light variance.
Probably the LCD screen is crap quality. If you have a good one, with MVA panel for example or the new iPhone/clearblack smartphone IPS ones (somehow they are much better than iMac /big IPS screens), an LCD actually looks better than the original CRT, especially on Pac Man. The contrast on the CRT was not that great on an original cab, maybe 1:200, and Pac-Man is not really needing the softness.,
I had the traditional game & watch as a kid, but my mates had the colour flip ones which let light through the back, and you viewed the game through a mirror. As a kid I used to have the reflexes to beat the scores, and I remember that if you got to 300 without loosing a life, then you would get double points. That's how I remember it anyway. 😁
Astro Wars and Caveman. I used to pay them for hours, the sounds drove my parents nuts.
Even though there's not a whole lot of actual "game" to a lot of these, I absolutely LOVE the aesthetic of it! I would love a mini-arcade of certain games.
Ah, so this is where the awesome collection of handhelds in the new cave came from? I've been following GamesYouLoved forever, so good to put a face (and voice!) to the name. 🙂
SO many memories in this one video!!!!!!
good to hear! Those 80s electronic games whilst basic are very addictive too
Another great collection. I remember as a boy on a holiday in Hastings my grandparents purchasing me Demon Driver from Woolworths as a gift. Never easy getting new batteries though! Thanks for sharing!
very nice video thanks . . . as for me I had the tomy steering wheel thing and those lcd handhelds were quite common things in the early 80s also on the austrian countryside where we referred to them generally as tricotronics which may have been the local distribution brand name of the original nintendo game and watch ones . . . great fun and then got a cpc 464 :) and my favorite lcd handheld was called western saloon
How lovely ,what memories you just dug out for me!!
I actually still have 1 handheld left from 1983 when i was 13 😱 and that's Grandstands Pocket Scramble .
Ah, the Game & Watch smell! My strongest memory of getting the Zelda one as a birthday present was the strong plasticky/electronicky smell. I still have it and, although it's weakened over the course of twenty plus years, the smell's still there!
The Game & Watch time was very great. My favorite game was Donkey Kong. maybe I will get a Zelda like that again someday. Greetings from RetroGameCity :-)
Im a table top and Game&Watch collector and i have most of these. I love them! You certainly showed the most common models. Alien Attack is great! And so is Gakken Frogger and Gakken Amidar. Theres a total of 4 Nintendo table tops (plus one by coleco with the same case body design)
Astro Wars! Haven't seen that since I owned it as a kid. Sat on my nan's kitchen table Christmas Day, totally engrossed. Brilliant.
Yes Astro Wars kept my whole famil y busy during Christmastime
Great video RMC! I had several of these as a child and coulddnt remember them until this video! THANK YOU!
I loved Astro Wars. I remember even putting a bit of tape over the speaker grill (just above the power switch) wasn't enough to stop it waking up the entire house early in the morning.
loooool , is that the one a bit like scramble ?
It's like space invaders. I use to carry that thing everywhere with me.
I had so many of these games and used others at friends houses in primary school at the time. Wow the nostalgia fix right there. The sights and sounds are so good. I still have one Game and watch handheld and a non working Galaxy 1000 which was played to death at the time. Great stuff, thanks.
Great vid, that was, I've still got the Grandstand Munchman table top game, ( main Christmas present 1982 ) which was like a clone of Pac-Man, also Grandstand invader from space, both still with boxes & instruction leaflets. They used to eat through batteries, quickly purchased a mains adaptor!
Also still got Nintendo game and watch Vermin game, where you knock moles back into the ground. They all still work too, amazing when they're pushing 35 years old, most of these games. Stuff was better made back in those days better quality Japanese components.
Who doesn't love astro wars? I had one called Dracula way back. Only watched snippets so far Neil, going to enjoy the whole vid on the train home....if I miss my stop I'm blaming you!!
Dracula is a rare one - would love to see that again
@@gamesyouloved I remember it being quite good fun. I had scramble, astro wars, Dracula and a sort of rally driving one that had a little steering wheel and gear shift (I think) if I recall correctly the car wasn't a graphic as such more an overlay that you moved about
@@gamesyouloved I've just checked TH-cam the only video I can find of Dracula the machine seems to be red and black. I'm sure mine was yellow and black. The game looks the same though 🤔
yup i had that game to, it was red , you get past the warewolf and chip at a wall to get thru then you pick up all the gold while avoiding the bats the you got open one of about 5 coffins that has a bat apearing randomly on the coffin then hope the one you open has no dracula inside but has the treasure,
@@BazzaHSpeccymad was it scramble or scrabble? there was one similar to it but much better my cousin had it i wanted to swap scramble or scrabble for it he said ill think about it, he never did lol
Brilliant! I haven't seen Astro Wars since the '80s! Hearing it took me right back.
that tomy dashboard..wow! i begged for one of those when i was a kid. haha
me too! I eventually got to my parents and they gave in!
Had a Galaxy Invader 1000 when i was a kid, happy memories.
I had the Invader 2000 when I was young (I think I still have it somewhere in storage). I don't think mine had the badge (so I honestly didn't know what it was called until now). I really liked how you could plug headphones into the top port to get headphone sound. I picked it up second hand at a yard sale when I was very young (maybe 10-12yrs old). @11:22 it seems like you cut the section talking about Invader 2000 and the yellow one (which I have never seen and was very interested in knowing more about.
I recently bought my dad a Galaga/Galaxian 1UP Arcade Cabinet here in the United States. He's going to freak at Christmas as he's a serious Galaga player (I've seen him his 3million before and reach levels around 70+ on a single credit easily). I plan to record a video of him seeing it for the first time. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to get him a better gift for the rest of his life, Galaga is the final gift for him really.
Love all the hand held and tabletop games 😁 great to see some of them up and running it brings back memories. Great show and tell episode Neil...😁😁😁 Kim 😁😁😁
Hilarious,ive played most of these as a 70s child,its great these have been saved.
I still have my boxed Galaxy Invader 1000. So many happy memories, I’ll never part with it. I also had a boxed Frogger which I sold for £5 back in 1990. Man, I wished I had of kept that!
I remember so many of these from my childhood. Either games I've owned or friends at the time. I still have (in the loft) the Astro Blaster game which I think is exactly the same as Alien Attack you have their but with a red case. That new 1/4 Pac Man cabinet is something else.
I had CGL's Puckmonster while my brother had Astro Wars. I played them both to death. Brilliant little games.
The tabletop Donkey Kong Jr doesn't use a vacuum fluorescent display, it uses a specially coloured LCD display, which is actually situated in the roof of the unit underneath a translucent bit of plastic and the surrounding room light provides the backlighting (you can see the translucent window on the top at 7:12), so the image gets lovely and bright if you put it near a window or shine a desk lamp onto it. There is then a 45 degree mirror that reflects the LCD screen forward out of the unit so you can see it. I've been collecting the old Game & Watch units over the past year and have all but the few unfeasibly expensive ones now, they are wonderful. There were 4 tabletop units released: Mario's Cement Factory, Popeye, Snoopy, and Donkey Kong Jr. They then used the same tech in the more portable "Panorama" series.
So many great memories thank you a great collection 👍😎🙏
pleasure to show them off - thanks
My childhood on one table! Astro Wars was one of my fave presents from Santa along with Scramble! I always yearned for the Tomy car every time a new Argos catalogue came out. I hope to collect them one day in the not too distant future.
The Galaxy Invader (yellow one) handheld was the only one I had back in the day. I played most of those displayed whilst I was in primary school, during free time just before half terms etc.
An awesome array of handheld delights! Thank you gentlemen :)
glad you enjoyed it - makes a change to get them out and play them!
I know what you mean, it isn't very often that we get the chance to use what we have in our collection! I appreciate the reply, thank you :)
I had Astro Wars. It’s a beautiful machine. Also, what was the yellow handheld at 11:42? I had one of those too but can’t remember what it was.
It's Invader 1000 by Gakken, but also sold under the CGL name.
My brother still has his grandstand astro wars that you have there. Still works. We used have huge fun with it. He got it for christmas in the early 80’s.
I've never known anyone else with a Galaxian machine. My brother had the Donkey Kong. Bought in the US around 1982. I also had the Demon Driver game! Awesome!
Demon Driver is crazy but a definite favourite
"Astro wars",those things lasted for years,tough casing.
You teased us with Frogger but no demo 😭 Excellent show nevertheless👍
Oh noooo there were so many to fit in. If you ask @GamesYouLoved nicely he may share it on his channel for you. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Ace vid. But I believe that Greenhouse was the first Game and Watch with a directional pad (used to have it myself, regret selling it)
All I really can say Neil, is that I'm really jealous. I'm coming over by 3rd class rate travel by boat to be over, I'll be there in about 3 to 4 months. 8^)
Nice work as always bro.
Anthony..
1:22 i had that one, space turbo!! on that exact colour! oh man, feeling nostalgic now... pretty basic game but eh, when youre 10 years old, it looked amazing! thanks, mom and dad (it was very expensive back in 85)
Thank you so much for sharing Demon Driver! @10:10 I had that game as a kid and haven't thought about it in years
Caveman was sold at Radio Shack stores in the USA. I remember playing it there. Pretty neat little game, although very simplistic.
DK Jr does NOT use a VFD. It uses a reverse-polarised LCD lit with daylight through the top of the machine, reflected into a mirror. You can see it more clearly in the Panorama screen handheld version. Same idea was used in that Tomytronic 3d game you had in your hand at 11:40.
The downside is they can't be used in the dark. On the other hand a VFD sucks battery, while these don't draw any more power than a regular Game & Watch.
I used to have a hand held Battlestar Galactica back in the early 80's which i loved. Also spent many hours on astro wars scoring 9999 nearly every time i played.
That Authentic Nintendo Smell...ahhhh. Right up there with New Car Smell and New Figure Smell (that fragrance that emanated from a freshly opened Kenner Star Wars Action Figure)
Very nice collection gentlemen. I'm very jealous 😀
Thank you sir
Bandai FL Zaxxon back in Christmas 1984 & Grandstand Star Force back in Christmas 1985 were the VFD table top games of my childhood! Astro Wars was an annual favourite in the classroom during the 1980s around Christmas during the 1980s as well (along with proper purple blackberry jelly, when it had all the E numbers and tasted awesome)! :-D
I had the Donkey Kong game and watch. I remember a Japanese kid in my class bringing one back from a trip to Japan and everyone in the class including me fell in love with it (Donkey Kong arcade game was still king). First time I saw it in a store here in the US, I **had** to have it, and I did what all kids are wont to do- begged my parents who gifted it to me soon after :D
My family also had that Demon Driver game, only it was called Digital Derby here. We also had another Tomy game called Blip. My favorite game the family had (not counting the Donkey Kong G&W!) was one from Entex called Galaxian 2. Sadly, all are long gone.
Christmas 82,I received my Pac Man Coleco tabletop game along with other cool presents. I was four years old
I own a PacMan clone called Munchman, Caveman and Firefox F7 by Grandstand, passed down from my dad.
love all those and own all of them too :)
Wow. I had Astro Wars as a kid, I think we rescued it from a boot sale with a Scramble game too. Oh and the Tomy Dashboard!
There was a kid at my primary school that always had a Game and watch, I vaguely remember one that had proper joypads.
I had 'Scramble' by Grandstand, passed down from my older brother...never figured out what happened to it, but i presume its either still in a barn somewhere, or was thrown out years ago when we moved out of London :(
I had Demon Driver, but it was called Digital Derby in the States. Demons were exorcised upon import, presumably.
6:44 > This uses a VFD
Nope! The other Coleco tabletops did. DK Jr. has a printed background, with an LCD used to cover up the unused parts of the game, sort of like a regular game & watch game in reverse. also why it relies on an external light source while the VFDs are self-luminescent
Thanks for highlighting this, interesting that they chose to make DK a little differently to the others
When I was young I think everyone i knew had an Astro Wars !
I know it was everywhere! Harder to find in good condition these days
I've got one still in the box, very good condition.
i think i saw that
wow that was freaky... i suddenly had a memory of playing on a turbo tomy from when i was very young.. like literally never recalled that before now, spooky when you suddenly remember something from decades ago!..
COOL........THANK YOU For The Flash Back
Cheers From Newfoundland Canada..
Very interesting video :) I only had one handheld multigame thing with tetris and tennis and stuff. Gameboy was to expensive for my parents. In their opinion.
It was the same for me. The Gameboy was also too expensive for me. Greetings from RetroGameCity :-)
I used to own that "Space Turbo" 30 years ago! Might still be somewhere at my mother's house …
Didn't realise that Space Invaders and/or Galaga and Pacman actually work quite well in whatever that kind of screen is called. Pacman looks much better than the console ports of the time.
Still got my entex pacman from 83 had for Christmas. And also dracula bought for my birthday in 84.both still working.
I have Astro wars, love the magnifier and form factor.
I'm addicted to collecting and repairing these beauties....they have a very "70"s smell to them.....
beer and cigarettes?
I know and remember Astro Wars and Space Turbo. I've been trying to find any TV adverts of Space Turbo online and nothing.
That was wonderful thank u for sharing. I also noticed u have the battle ships I had a kid. Love it
Ha! I recognize Astrowar, loved it
Yeah, I like all of the games. Very nice games. Thank you for showing of these great games. Greetings from RetroGameCity :-)
Those lcd games where awesome back then, everybody at school had one. But playing them now, ..., the games where eh not the best :D
New "bartop" arcade looks cool hopefully better build than those crappy arcade 1 up, but they are a bit pricy
Oh yes, At that time everyone had such games :-)
I loved Astro Wars! Always wanted it but never managed to get my parents to buy me it back in the 80s/90s!
bought it at a garage sale circa 1986
I remember those Tiger hand helds being a staple of wet breaks in junior school! We would have brought in our grey brick Gameboys but the headmaster decided they were too valuable and banned them :(
Awesome Astro Wars on the right.....I had one of them😁
Smelling your electronics...you Brits are alright in my book. I do the same thing with every new game, retro console, tabletop game, handheld device, and even top end cellphones. I have always done this and I started out doing it as a kid. I know I'm about to age myself but I was doing this way back in 1986 with Nes and Master System games. The first time I did this in front of my fiancee the look on her face was priceless. She was probably thinking "Oh great, I went home with a psycho."
She was a good sport about it and now she partakes in the smelling of new games as well. Oh...she's a diehard gamer like me that plays everything. She's a good egg...
1:30 Tomy Turnin' Turbo... I SO badly wanted one like 35 years ago... never got one.. still wan't one actually...!
there's always time!
gamesyouloved true that :-)... but quite expensive nowadays
I had An early hand held (1979) where red line came down in either 1 of 3 columns and you had to avoid them , I cant remember what it was called.
Tandy pocket Simon
Bion Borg tennis
Astro Wars
Scrambler
CGL Earth Invaders
GrandStand Star Chess (like star trek chess played on TV .still have )
Novex cartridge console (£39 from Rumbelows)
Zx81
Zx spectrum
Zx Spectrum 48
3 x Atari Lynx (recently sold)
Atari Jaguar + CD add-on (recently sold)
N64 (recently sold)
Game Cube HDMI (recently sold)
Xbox 360
Xbox one x (recently sold)
Hi i see space turbo my brother had one in i had BMX Flyer there was another BMX game but not light up LCD, still have space turbo but in bits would like to get another. What happened to Tomy and Grandstand and others
loved the episode, but you may want to do something about your table being a "bass" drum! i.e. from 13:02 until 13:17
Wow, they look amazing. Those grandstand/tomy games are in colour and light and actually resemble proper graphics and are crisp and clear. I didn't know these existed and have never seen one before until now, being born in 1989 i grew up with various tiger LCD games, we all knew they were poor games that were the worst version's of that particular game that was possible. But after seeing the tomy/grandstand stuff from around 1982 it is clear that tiger really had no excuse for such crap handhelds. It is actually possible to make a somewhat half decent game with that technology that uses a set of fixed images lit up bit by bit. Just look at the caveman game, the dinosaur is a full coloured animated image. Not just shitty simple and blurry outlines that barely resemble whatever it is meant to be displaying. That tron and astro wars look pretty awesome aswell.
I had a Double Dragon handheld like that. Where is it now? Does it worth anything for me going thru all my old boxes?
Stez stix fix is needed !
Gerrof my laaaand
@@RMCRetro Fun Fact: In grandstands ASTRO wars/epoch's galaxy ll, if you're high score goes pass 9999 you beat the whole game with a little message saying good on the top of the screen. And a little melody plays 6 to 8 times after you beat the game.
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That Turbo Dashboard I have wanted that all my life! Living outside the US actually scoring one is like impossible :/
OMG Demon Driver haha. Loved that. Did you come across a Digital Daredevil?
Hello guys
First of all great upload.
But can you please give me the name of the 2nd device you touched when mentioning it doesn't work.
I am almost sure i had one of them in blue when I was younger.
My older brother had all sorts growing up and I know the name of them all but please tell me the name of the white one you touch very early into the clip.
Kind regards
The sound on alien attack sounds like a dot matrix printer
Just realised that! That is a very nice sound in some ways
remember having that Demon Driver game - think it was the first electronic game my parents brought for me. also had a Bandai Missile Invader (space invader clone) that was LED based with a 2-digit seven-segment LED display for scoring at the top.. Unfortunately I have no idea what happened to either of them.
Astro Wars in the U.S. was called Galaxy II as I had that 😂
Many of my favorites.
I remember a lot of these games from when i was a kid.
I thought they were so cool.
Great collection! Awsome!!
You didnt do the Tomytronic 3D Hand held game that i have?lol It WAS Wicked!!
I wish to have and play some of those lcd games. I had only the cheap ones, in the childhood. I can play modern games and older games, emulated on computer or phone, but it will never replace the feeling of holding and playing on original device.
I had mainly brick games 99999 in 1 (mainly, because they were cheap, so my parents would buy me them a lot) which obviously was not true, but those gamea were very fun. Those lcd Sonic games, that were given in McDonalds, they were also okay. And I also had some bootleg lcd Mario and Pac-Man games, which both were not so good. Mario was somewhat playable, but Pac-Man was very zoomed in and because of that, you were loosing a lot, as you could not see ghost earlier, than them being very close to you.
Second week of December for that huh i need one of those
Where did you guys get these from!? I'm in my 50s. These things were awesome when I was a kid!😃
I have this AstroWar game from Epoch since I was young, but the name is not AstroWar on my model, it's Galaxy II.
I have a Nintendo tabletop donkey kong jr and Marios cement factory from the 80:s. What do they sell for?