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"Scott's Stash" is almost like an off-the-cuff, really obscure podcast that Scott does all by himself and I admittedly like it more than his main channel now.
The e-reader is funny bc it was originally a Pokémon TCG thing, only for the Pokémon cards, that’s why the e in the e-reader logo looks like a pokéball. However someone down the line said “this is stupid” to which someone else said “yes, let’s use this for other games” completely missing the point of why the e-reader was stupid. Anyways, one of my favorite pieces in my collection.
Yeah when Scott was showing the individual e-reader I noticed on the packaging a normal pokemon card which confused me, now I know thanks for mentioning this
It was announced in 2001 as the Pokémon E-Reader, a year where Pokémania was on the wane. So between then and the launch they must have made the choice to remove the branding and broaden its appeal so as not to jinx it
As a self-proclaimed Animal Crossing expert, the Sanrio amiibo cards are not meant to be trading cards. The standard Amiibo cards for Animal Crossing can be traded, since the packs are randomly assorted. However, because the Sanrio series only includes 6 new villagers, it wouldn't make sense for Nintendo to market the cards as a trading card game.
That's only in the west. The Japanese version comes with 2 ramdom cards and 1 of 6 stickers. So there is a high chance you are going to get doubles if you want to collect all the cards and stickers. So trading is the easiest way to get all of them.
23:18 Hearing Scott sarcastically and excitedly talk about how corroded and disgusting his Gameboy Advance box is way more amusing than it has any right to be.
It's really cool for a game collector who can/would spend that kind of money on stuff we're all interested in to share all that stuff with us talking at us for half an hour. I mean, I like this stuff. Not enough to buy it, God, no. But it's almost just as cool to get a good, long look at it all. Sincerely, this is a great use of a video sharing platform. Scott can tell us stuff about video games outside of his Scott the Woz format and just flex his game collection at us. It's neat.
Instead of showing off some collection of Pokemon cards, or a collection of cards from literally any card game that human beings actually like at all, Scott would probably show off his e-Reader Card Collection
Unfortunately i don’t believe after making a video about it on the stash account, we will be getting a similar video on the main. But I truly hope im wrong because i would also enjoy that lol
I have the pokemon colosseum e-reader cards that were only released in Japan and they're my favorite piece of my collection! Something about how gimmicky they are adds to the charm. I also thought my e-reader was broken when I first tried using the cards+reader as I had to rely on google translate to figure out what the menus meant while using them ingame.
@@blockacheese_ I bought my set a few years ago for around $350 but I've been seeing it sell recently for at least double with how much everything is going up
4:36 Scott's not kidding. I used to play games on a white GBA. By the time I sold it, it had terrible dark stains/fingerprints near its buttons and directional cross just from normal handling.
This video is making want to finally take a swing at trying to print my own e-reader cards. I downloaded archives of dot codes and forum discussions trying to crack the printing method a couple of years ago, but haven't attempted it myself. The GBA is tied with the PS3 for my all time favorite console, so went through a phase in my late teens trying to get all of the enhancing/connector cable accessories. I was lucky to borrow/return a friend's Game Shark in my last week of high school to force all of the special events in my copies of Emerald and Fire-Red, since he was the last person I personally knew who had one. In the inflated market we are in, I am very happy to have collected as much of it as I had.
I agree with the E-reader logo, since I only ever saw it on Pokémon cards and NO ONE HAD ONE I thought it was just another symbol for Pokémon like a energy or evolution
I have the Mario Party e-Reader game as well. I played it a grand total of once with a friend when he came over. In fact, the e-Reader itself was so short lived that I only got to buy a card pack once before it was discontinued.
When I was a kid, I went to a friend's house, and I'm pretty sure it was his birthday, but everyone who came got E-Readers. It was a very strange thing.
I just bought an EReader for 25$ and they had the DK Jr. Cards for 2$ loose. This local place has several sealed packs,but they want way to much. It'd be nice to get a couple more sets at a reasonable price. I used to have it as a child. Not the best, but like you said an interesting piece of history and neat collectable.
Using the e-reader with Super Mario Advance 4 was “fun”. Since the e-reader occupies the game cartridge slot, you needed to connect it to *another* GBA, putting SMA4 in one GBA and the e-reader in the other, to get the cards to work. I think I convinced a friend to let me use his and managed to play like one custom level. Besides that one time, I couldn’t play the custom levels because I only had one GBA. EDIT: Scott does mention this later in the video, but I’ll leave my comment.
21:41 So funny thing about this: this set of the TCG, unique for having e-Reader dock codes on the cards, included holographic rares (as per usual), _but_ the holographic cards *do not have* the dock codes printed on them, so if you got a rare card, you couldn't use the e-Reader features associated with that card.
I only had one opportunity to transfer the new levels to my copy of Mario 3. The messed up part is, you could only save the levels to your cart once you beat them. I was stuck with 10 level cards and only 2 being playable.
Having it as an external attachment that you can hook via link cable, would have been better, because you could have done something like Pokemon trading card Game 2, and they could have put barcodes on the back or the sides of the cards that you can scan into the game. Or a whole new trading card Game based on that kind of philosophy.
Watching you open the Gameboy Advance box (minus the corroded batteries) made me feel some type of way. I remember getting that same one for Christmas and being over the moon. So long ago.
Aww, the e-reader seemed like such a magical device in my younger days, but I guess not everyone else loved it as much as I did. I always thought it was cool that all the code for the games were in such tiny dots literally out in the open to be scanned like that, like if microfiche and qrcodes had a baby. I even remember trying to print out copies at home, but alas the resolution needed to print at that scale was quite demanding. I felt like they just barely scraped the surface of the cool things you could do with encoded data on cardstock before people got bored of it and it went the way of the dodo. The Pokémon cards were such a great little pile of easter eggs though. The shorter side just being a small dex entry, but the longer side could be all sorts of surprises like minigames or utilities or tiny vignettes. The coin flip tool was my favourite, being able to do coin flipping for any board game in a more entertaining form.
Just found out about this channel and it’s super dope to see old Nintendo packaging like this and also to hear Scott nerd out about vintage game boy era stuff, not sure if you’ll read this but you should make a video where you put an ips screen in it, I feel like it would fit with the rest of the videos on this channel although not sure how you’d feel opening up a new gba
I remember when the e-reader launched. I've been in gaming retail that long (actually longer). It was such a massive flop. I just remember the Nintendo rep coming by and giving us all these information pamphlets to help educate what the e-reader was. Literally no one cared. Even as a giant Nintendo fan I looked at that device completely bewildered. Like who was this for? No kid wanted it and no one older was looking for it. I never understood who the intended audience was supposed to be.
How dare you, Scott. I’m currently neck-deep buying all the e-reader shit-CIB e reader and e+ reader from Japan, sealed toys-r-us promo manhole cards, every sealed pack and a set of club Nintendo Pikmin cards with the binder, and the one thing on my list I still haven’t come close to checking off is this damn e-reader bundle, and now here you are showcasing it to the world! They’re already so expensive, Scott, how could you do this to me? 😔 great vid tho thx for posting it
I had this growing up. So much fun setting up, although my parents were so annoyed that we were young children and didn’t understand the concepts of the “e-reader”
Oh, Scott, the history of Pokémon card printing in the US goes: Wizards of the Coast > Nintendo > The Pokémon Company international. Nintendo does own about a 1/3rd stake in the Pokémon Company, so they kinda still print them.
Regarding the fun of buying card packs. I like both knowing what u get and not. As a magic the gathering player I love cracking new packs seeing what I got. But it does come to a point where I’m like alright go in the shop and buy singles of what I need but didn’t get.
I think another funny thing about the e-reader having all these NES games is that most of them were available in Animal Crossing, and you could play them on your GBA. Further adding to the redundancy of this product.
Since Scott brought it up: the only games that used e-Reader for sure were Mario 3, Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, Pokemon Colosseum, and Animal Crossing. Japan had a bunch of others, including Megaman Battle Network, but yeah, nothing else shown in this video has e-Reader support or addons.
I always had a couple e-Reader Pokemon cards, and I didn't know what the lines meant for the longest time, but they were shiny and unique looking so I wasn't complaining
i have an e-reader and a few of the rare things like Mario Party E-reader. Don't think I ever ended up using it much outside of just playing Excitebike and Ice Climber. Which once I unlocked those in Animal Crossing, I just used the GC to GBA transfer method to play those at home as it was equally weird and annoying to do
I swear to you I clicked this video only because of the title and started watching to almost instantly say okay, I like this guy, he sounds like Scott, then I looked down to subscribe.....
"Scott's Stash" is almost like an off-the-cuff, really obscure podcast that Scott does all by himself and I admittedly like it more than his main channel now.
oddly enough it’s really good background noise
@@radiantstarlight0428 I agree, it's good to just pop on then start a game or clean up
"A must-have for gamers and collectors alike?"
Did Nintendo not know that gamers would be the only people who would care enough to collect them?
guys he did it, he talked about pokémon again
The e-reader is funny bc it was originally a Pokémon TCG thing, only for the Pokémon cards, that’s why the e in the e-reader logo looks like a pokéball. However someone down the line said “this is stupid” to which someone else said “yes, let’s use this for other games” completely missing the point of why the e-reader was stupid.
Anyways, one of my favorite pieces in my collection.
Place your bets people. Eat a shoe if it's Nintendo Japan, or eat a banana if it's Nintendo USA.
@@JeskidoYT I’m betting Nintendo USA.
@@JeskidoYT Nintendo of Japan. This seems like their type of odd idea.
Yeah when Scott was showing the individual e-reader I noticed on the packaging a normal pokemon card which confused me, now I know thanks for mentioning this
It was announced in 2001 as the Pokémon E-Reader, a year where Pokémania was on the wane. So between then and the launch they must have made the choice to remove the branding and broaden its appeal so as not to jinx it
"Wow, I can't get enough of these sealed E-reader boxes!"
-a phrases said by no one ever, except Scott
Also the only person in history who said: "I need to buy another Ouya"
I love how even Scott knows this shit is ridiculous, but is still chill enough to not technically care, anyhow.
As a self-proclaimed Animal Crossing expert, the Sanrio amiibo cards are not meant to be trading cards. The standard Amiibo cards for Animal Crossing can be traded, since the packs are randomly assorted. However, because the Sanrio series only includes 6 new villagers, it wouldn't make sense for Nintendo to market the cards as a trading card game.
Glad someone said this so there isn’t any confusion
That's only in the west. The Japanese version comes with 2 ramdom cards and 1 of 6 stickers. So there is a high chance you are going to get doubles if you want to collect all the cards and stickers. So trading is the easiest way to get all of them.
If they wanted them to be collectable but only 6, they should have made them into $20 e-shop cards.
I think it’s neat that there were essentially Animal Crossing Amiibo cards before Amiibo
Animal crossing amiibo festival
@@Duqustar *gasp* NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!1!!!1!!!!!!1!!!
@@leakdeo WAHAHAH
@Duqustar *no.*
Animal Crossing e-Reader Festival
psychiatrist: so... what is your addiction...
scott: ya heard of the e reader
The problem Is that have become mine as well, and since i'm european i Need to buy japanese ones
That sounds like a real scott bit
“ever hear of battery corrosion?”
23:18 Hearing Scott sarcastically and excitedly talk about how corroded and disgusting his Gameboy Advance box is way more amusing than it has any right to be.
There’s definitely gonna be a Scott the Woz episode on the e-reader soon
I hope so
PlayStation One Retrospective Next
I love how at 26:54, Scott lifts the cards in sync with the "coin" sound of the music... ...TWICE!
It's really cool for a game collector who can/would spend that kind of money on stuff we're all interested in to share all that stuff with us talking at us for half an hour. I mean, I like this stuff. Not enough to buy it, God, no. But it's almost just as cool to get a good, long look at it all.
Sincerely, this is a great use of a video sharing platform. Scott can tell us stuff about video games outside of his Scott the Woz format and just flex his game collection at us.
It's neat.
Instead of showing off some collection of Pokemon cards, or a collection of cards from literally any card game that human beings actually like at all, Scott would probably show off his e-Reader Card Collection
Don’t forget his collection of Mario sports superstars amiibo cards
Im pretty sure that the e reader collection would be more valuable.
nah dude Mario cards for sure
@@wrenren2112 Worth it.
There were Pokémon cards in that binder and pack
I’m expecting the next episode of Scott the woz to be about the e-reader
I'd be so happy, I really find the tech behind this so fascinating
If he owns all this stuff for it he might as well.
@@lemonlime8949 Is it weird how it is probably better than what Nintendo makes today
Unfortunately i don’t believe after making a video about it on the stash account, we will be getting a similar video on the main. But I truly hope im wrong because i would also enjoy that lol
PlayStation One
I have the pokemon colosseum e-reader cards that were only released in Japan and they're my favorite piece of my collection! Something about how gimmicky they are adds to the charm. I also thought my e-reader was broken when I first tried using the cards+reader as I had to rely on google translate to figure out what the menus meant while using them ingame.
how much
@@blockacheese_ I bought my set a few years ago for around $350 but I've been seeing it sell recently for at least double with how much everything is going up
This entire channel is one big flex.
And I love it.
Edit: Damn, I can't believe how sexy that pristine condition gba box looks.
SMB3 was the highest selling, non pack-in game on a single platform and single SKU. It was surpassed during the Nintendo DS era.
I know smb stands for Super Mario Bros but somehow my square brain read it as Shin Megami Bensei
SKU?
@@abhijithravikumar5300 Yeah, "Stock Keeping Unit". It is the identifier for most items sold in retail stores.
@@toastcrumch that would be a very dark adventure
@@toastcrumch same, bruh. My eyes perceived the abbreviation as Shin Megami Bensei
Gotta love scott’s 17 minutes and 30 seconds of foreplay before actually opening the box.
definitely knows what hes doing
4:36 Scott's not kidding. I used to play games on a white GBA. By the time I sold it, it had terrible dark stains/fingerprints near its buttons and directional cross just from normal handling.
Watching Scott call us out on listening to him unbox a Gameboy Advance E-Reader set hurt deeply
"Getting into the E-reader in terms of... wasting my money" is such a ridiculously Scott thing to say and I love it.
This video is making want to finally take a swing at trying to print my own e-reader cards. I downloaded archives of dot codes and forum discussions trying to crack the printing method a couple of years ago, but haven't attempted it myself. The GBA is tied with the PS3 for my all time favorite console, so went through a phase in my late teens trying to get all of the enhancing/connector cable accessories. I was lucky to borrow/return a friend's Game Shark in my last week of high school to force all of the special events in my copies of Emerald and Fire-Red, since he was the last person I personally knew who had one. In the inflated market we are in, I am very happy to have collected as much of it as I had.
Watching scott open packs really gives me that special kind of serotonin
I love Scott sitting on the floor and talking, it's a nice relaxing time.
same
"I don't want to open one of my only two e-readers."
I love you man.
I agree with the E-reader logo, since I only ever saw it on Pokémon cards and NO ONE HAD ONE I thought it was just another symbol for Pokémon like a energy or evolution
I have the Mario Party e-Reader game as well. I played it a grand total of once with a friend when he came over.
In fact, the e-Reader itself was so short lived that I only got to buy a card pack once before it was discontinued.
When I was a kid, I went to a friend's house, and I'm pretty sure it was his birthday, but everyone who came got E-Readers. It was a very strange thing.
Goddamn, that's a nice gift. Kinda felt bad for those kids who don't have gameboy advance and ended up stashing these e-reader in their attics tho
Their parents accidentally bought 5 then couldnt sell them back because nobody knew what an e reader even was
I just bought an EReader for 25$ and they had the DK Jr. Cards for 2$ loose. This local place has several sealed packs,but they want way to much. It'd be nice to get a couple more sets at a reasonable price. I used to have it as a child. Not the best, but like you said an interesting piece of history and neat collectable.
I had an e-reader when it came out and it's still the one piece of tech I don't really regret not keeping into adulthood.
Using the e-reader with Super Mario Advance 4 was “fun”. Since the e-reader occupies the game cartridge slot, you needed to connect it to *another* GBA, putting SMA4 in one GBA and the e-reader in the other, to get the cards to work. I think I convinced a friend to let me use his and managed to play like one custom level. Besides that one time, I couldn’t play the custom levels because I only had one GBA.
EDIT: Scott does mention this later in the video, but I’ll leave my comment.
“Ive been kinda getting into the e-reader latley just in terms of y’know, uhhh…. wasting my money”
Really disappointed that not a single e-reader card was scanned in the video.
Same, I was anticipating it the entire time.
They're sealed. Lol
@@TiagoRai12 oh yeah I forgot. Things aren’t able to be opened/unsealed anymore. Darn 😭😭😭😭
21:41 So funny thing about this: this set of the TCG, unique for having e-Reader dock codes on the cards, included holographic rares (as per usual), _but_ the holographic cards *do not have* the dock codes printed on them, so if you got a rare card, you couldn't use the e-Reader features associated with that card.
I only had one opportunity to transfer the new levels to my copy of Mario 3. The messed up part is, you could only save the levels to your cart once you beat them. I was stuck with 10 level cards and only 2 being playable.
It's amazing how much unique Pokémon stuff Scott owns despite not giving a fart for the series.
Scott please do more of these. It was very entertaining too watch and listen too.
3:20 Same here even after owning the mario bros card pack I always the logo looked like something of madcatz quality.
I want to start seeing speed runs for scanning e-Reader sets. Mine is just sitting in a storage cube crying.
this box is beautiful i love the characters and how blue that was reader section is
Having it as an external attachment that you can hook via link cable, would have been better, because you could have done something like Pokemon trading card Game 2, and they could have put barcodes on the back or the sides of the cards that you can scan into the game. Or a whole new trading card Game based on that kind of philosophy.
It would actually be pokemon trading card game 3. 2 was released but as a japanese exclusive.
Up until like 2011 or so, you could buy sealed E-Readers on Nintendo's online store. I'm so mad I didn't do that.
9:00
Pokemon Rumble U had a line of Pokemon figures that worked essentially like Amiibos, but before Amiibo.
Watching you open the Gameboy Advance box (minus the corroded batteries) made me feel some type of way. I remember getting that same one for Christmas and being over the moon. So long ago.
the only in-box ones i could find were over $1000, holy shit Scott
Aww, the e-reader seemed like such a magical device in my younger days, but I guess not everyone else loved it as much as I did. I always thought it was cool that all the code for the games were in such tiny dots literally out in the open to be scanned like that, like if microfiche and qrcodes had a baby. I even remember trying to print out copies at home, but alas the resolution needed to print at that scale was quite demanding. I felt like they just barely scraped the surface of the cool things you could do with encoded data on cardstock before people got bored of it and it went the way of the dodo.
The Pokémon cards were such a great little pile of easter eggs though. The shorter side just being a small dex entry, but the longer side could be all sorts of surprises like minigames or utilities or tiny vignettes. The coin flip tool was my favourite, being able to do coin flipping for any board game in a more entertaining form.
Seeing you open that sealed E-reader kinda bummed me out.
It was meant to be played.
@@Firstfall_Trading I agree
Thank you! I have been waiting for this
Just found out about this channel and it’s super dope to see old Nintendo packaging like this and also to hear Scott nerd out about vintage game boy era stuff, not sure if you’ll read this but you should make a video where you put an ips screen in it, I feel like it would fit with the rest of the videos on this channel although not sure how you’d feel opening up a new gba
I remember when the e-reader launched. I've been in gaming retail that long (actually longer). It was such a massive flop. I just remember the Nintendo rep coming by and giving us all these information pamphlets to help educate what the e-reader was. Literally no one cared. Even as a giant Nintendo fan I looked at that device completely bewildered. Like who was this for? No kid wanted it and no one older was looking for it. I never understood who the intended audience was supposed to be.
I remember buying this when it came out, good stuff 😎
How dare you, Scott.
I’m currently neck-deep buying all the e-reader shit-CIB e reader and e+ reader from Japan, sealed toys-r-us promo manhole cards, every sealed pack and a set of club Nintendo Pikmin cards with the binder, and the one thing on my list I still haven’t come close to checking off is this damn e-reader bundle, and now here you are showcasing it to the world! They’re already so expensive, Scott, how could you do this to me? 😔
great vid tho thx for posting it
Scott I love you, All the way from Mexico
Can’t wait to see the e-reader episode of Scott The Woz!
PlayStation One Retrospective first, than E-Reader.
nothing makes my day better than watching Scott take a look at trash from 20 years ago
I had this growing up. So much fun setting up, although my parents were so annoyed that we were young children and didn’t understand the concepts of the “e-reader”
Honestly my favorite pokemon card that I own is an e reader card, I wondered why it looked like that for the longest time
Oh, Scott, the history of Pokémon card printing in the US goes:
Wizards of the Coast > Nintendo > The Pokémon Company international. Nintendo does own about a 1/3rd stake in the Pokémon Company, so they kinda still print them.
Regarding the fun of buying card packs. I like both knowing what u get and not. As a magic the gathering player I love cracking new packs seeing what I got. But it does come to a point where I’m like alright go in the shop and buy singles of what I need but didn’t get.
haha oh man I love the e-Reader! I still have my original unit and cards from back in the day.
I never knew that the pokemon cards with the weird bar on the side was for the E-reader!
very cool, would to like see more stuff like this
I love these videos
Glad to see Scott is spending that big TH-cam money wisely.
0:59
Ah, so it was like the Among Us card swipe LOL
5:02 just got an ad and scott said welcome back lol
you should do a video about how you find this stuff!
That's so cool that the box for the Game Boy Advance is so small, about the same size as GBA game boxes.
The berry thing with the EReader is actually pretty crazy. It was the only way to get a whole slew of berries that were otherwise not in the game
"Scott Unscripted" is like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde LOL....
Wait what !! Didn’t know you had a another channel. Instant subscriber for sure. Cool I owned an e reader its darn cool
Nice having the battery’s included
I just got all the Mario 3 US cards... well except the Walmart ones. Those 5 are more then the series 1, 2, and base two pack ins combined :P
I love that this is like a museum of old videogames
I think another funny thing about the e-reader having all these NES games is that most of them were available in Animal Crossing, and you could play them on your GBA. Further adding to the redundancy of this product.
Yes
Coming with a 5 sample cards reminds me of the 3DS AR cards
Man... i was hopping you would do a full blown video about this... it whould have been great
Good job
Scott’s Stash becoming an Unboxing Channel
Since Scott brought it up: the only games that used e-Reader for sure were Mario 3, Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, Pokemon Colosseum, and Animal Crossing. Japan had a bunch of others, including Megaman Battle Network, but yeah, nothing else shown in this video has e-Reader support or addons.
It's possible to use the e reader on the gamecube without an gba , it works on the gba adapter
I always had a couple e-Reader Pokemon cards, and I didn't know what the lines meant for the longest time, but they were shiny and unique looking so I wasn't complaining
I can't believe you release a video only 5 days after I buy my own E reader. What a coincidence.
Wake up babe new Scott's Stash upload
i have an e-reader and a few of the rare things like Mario Party E-reader. Don't think I ever ended up using it much outside of just playing Excitebike and Ice Climber. Which once I unlocked those in Animal Crossing, I just used the GC to GBA transfer method to play those at home as it was equally weird and annoying to do
I swear to you I clicked this video only because of the title and started watching to almost instantly say okay, I like this guy, he sounds like Scott, then I looked down to subscribe.....
Yes, indeed I have
My worst nightmare. Scott made a unboxing video
I love IRL Scott as much as Scott the Woz
How do we know this isn’t ashens and Scott just dubbed over it
American Ashens = Scott the Woz
Sofa = ashens
Carpet = Scott
The carpet is the visual tell
The lack of the sofa was my first clue 😉
I love how you open this stuff, I get respecting the past and stuff but what is the point if they never get played?
15:24 classic Scott, advocating for gambling
That kickflip cover song was from a web show called dam class or something
STW Blerbs. More of these please. Humanizes you. And less yelling is great, just kinda chill.
The eReader logo reminds me of the data design logo
I like the way Scott says Donkey Kong
you just opened possibly the last sealed copy of an e reader gba bundle..sealed gba systems alone go for thousands. i cant imagine this..
There is a Scott the Woz unboxing channel?! crap gotta subscribe.