I had one of these when I was 5-6 and I loved it lol. It had a different theme with some investigator/cop animation that played on boot-up. The thing had an actual functioning Ethernet port (separate from the mouse port) and (Ancient) serial printer drivers.
As far as computer themed toys for children go, that one is actually pretty neat. The working mouse is a treat. I have this weird thing, though, where I will notice some little charecter and wonder who drew that. Wonder how many people actually take the time to notice it. My daughter definitely never talked about the cute cartoon mouse playing soccer on the frame of the electronic soccer net toy, yet someone made that charecter, and it was printed on a sticker to put on the toy. So seeing those animations really hit that feeling hard. Someone made them, likely only for this one toy. I wonder how many people had ever seen them before today.
Ya I think he doesn't realize it's a toy for children... as far as it's classification, it's not a laptop, but a learning tool for children designed to resemble a laptop and in that sense not really a nugget, but for a 5 year old a good bit of random fun and learning 🤷
@MadameSomnambule yeah, when it's really nice, the thought is "someone put a lot of time and care I to your design, I wonder if any kids ever noticed you." And when it's super janky (this transfers to cheaply made toys in general too) its more of a "you poor thing, I wonder if any kid has ever really loved you" as if it's toy story or something lol
Toys like this are sold in less developed countries in urban markets all over the world. You'd find these at street side electronic stores in South America etc, and rural stores.
Thing is... My parents bought me one of these (The previous generation) when I was like 3 and I ABSOLUTELY loved it. I could spend literally hours upon hours doing God knows what and just learning stuff. It even taught me how to multiply, and I still have it somewhere in their place. You could even attach a printer to it through a prehistorical serial port. Besides, one of the activities was a bunch of National Anthems played with that crappy 8-bit like sound. I think that's why most of my little friends of that time ended up with migraines or voices in their heads. Thanks for the memories, Wade. Thank you a lot.
Same. I had something really similar around 99/00, I don't think it had a full keyboard board, but it had the same bezels around the screen and some "fun" puzzle games
Similar story, I got a VTech Genius Leader 6000SL as a kid in the late 90s and I absolutely loved it. Bonus points: it actually tried teaching me a programming language (it had a whole BASIC interpreter built in and you could program your own things on it). Granted, not much of it stuck but hey...
I remember a friend in 6th grade was always bragging that he had a laptop (this was when the 3310 still reigned supreme). One day I went over there and it was one of these things. He made it out to be like a gaming laptop better than most consoles at the time... I acted like it was the coolest thing I've ever seen.
I had a friend like that at school, not sure I haven't seen him since then but I do hope he eventually figured out that there was more to be gained by telling the truth. I would not have put on the act like you , you are a good friend. Will you be my friend?
NOOOOO I remember getting a laptop exactly like this and I was so excited to get my first computer. I was a kid so I didn't realize how tiny the screen actually was until I opened it. I tried very hard not to look disappointed in front of my aunt. I played with it once and got bored of it.
thats how those kids toys usually go. i got a toy camera one year (weird blobby vtech one), after my brother had gotten a camcorder. played with it once then just took his old camcorder to use lmao. Same thing with those toy consoles
I got mine when I was maybe 3 or 4 and I distinctly remember it was at the same time I was learning how to write my name and all that. and because of that, I used to have an obsession with writing out my personal info like name and address so I was always typing that on the laptop any time I could. nothing else. just type type type type. even if it didn’t show up on the screen. glad that thing wasn’t connected to the internet.
This reminds me the V-Tech laptop I had as a kid. My most clear memory of that laptop was putting in the gutter after a big rainstorm and letting the current carry it down into the storm drain outside the house.
Fun fact, the company behind this made a Barbie themed version, and it has an audio in jack. The speakers (yes there are 2) are decent and surprisingly not mono. So you can get really fuzzy distorted audio if you so wish
I happen to have a lot of these Barbie educational laptops by Oregon Scientific. Despite being an adult now, these toys REALLY are entertaining to play with! 😊😁
Aw man this brings me back. I used to have a janky, barbie-themed learning "laptop" just like this one with the huge bezel and everything as a kid. I loved it so much.
I love how the mouse uses an RJ45 plug. It’s like the manufacturers picking out which one to use were like, well they are both used in computers. The USB uses too much metal. That too expensive.
I had a keyboard that used an RJ11 to connect to the cable. Which could be taken off. And if you pry it open and take the foil and pcb out, the rest could just go into the dishwasher.
Modular jacks are easy to make and you won't hurt anything by plugging a real LAN into this machine nor that mouse into a network jack. I met one which did use fake USB! It killed the USB controller I plugged it into. This is more for the sanity of the parents which own it.
@@parekhnirajj123 sure, why not. I've had a camera that could output video and audio over 3.5 mm. For a mouse it needs 4 contacts, which is a thing with those plugs.
The graphics on the caterpillar game during the last half minute of the video were pretty good! True story: When I was a kid, I wanted a laptop so bad that I would take a piece of cardboard and draw my own keyboard and screen, then carry it with me on the school bus and pretend to use it. I also had a cardboard HiFi so I could listen to music.
Man, in elementary school at one point, it got so popular for kids to make and play with fake flip phones that were just folded up paper they got banned from our school.
It sounds to me like some of the sound effects are stolen from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but being destroyed by the terrible speakers. Like when you go through the different choices on the main menu I’m pretty sure that’s the transporter sound effect, and I heard some game bleeps that sounded specifically like the bleeps of the ship’s computer (edit: it’s the doorbell, I’m such a petaQ) in that show.
@@Interference22 and those beeps in half the games _(Snake: Frank’s Revenge_ being one that had this beep) sound like one of the comm system beeps from TNG-era LCARS.
7:39 LOL That is exactly the Star Trek: The Next Generation door chime! Whoever made this toy sat there and figured out exactly which tones to play to match the door chime perfectly
I love how they used Star Trek TNG transporter sound effects for scrolling between menu options right at the beginning at 04:55, did anybody else pick up on that? And then Halo button sounds later on, this machine really was ahead of it's time
Yeah, and the door chime is also in there. they sound like they were reproduced by hand too and not just a recording so it probably took some effort haha
I'm glad I checked the comments because I watched the video at low volume at work, and the confirmation sound on the typing tutor sounded so familiar that it bothered me all day.
I had this exact same laptop as a kid, this brings back fond memories, used to play with it all the time :) At one point I even tried plugging in an actual Ethernet cable into the mouse port, connecting it to a router, to my disappointment it just periodically emitted a warning sound :)
I remember owning a vtech nitro notebook as a kid. It was actually pretty fun and I remember it having some decent games on it. The thick bezel is still pretty funny in retrospect 😂
@@thatpersonwithamlpiconwhos2861 Lmao if it was like that one FnF scene with the guy playing Gran Turismo in his car instead it’s the hotwheels bezel computer 9000
I had a toy laptop like this when I was younger, and seeing this made the nostalgia hit so hard. I paused the video at one point and spent SO LONG looking it up to see if I could figure out which one I had. I couldn't find it and honestly it just feels like a fever dream that I even had it to begin with. I am pretty sure that it was made by Vtech, because those are the only ones that look even remotely close to what I remember. It had a ton of games and activities on it, and a tiny screen like this one. I honestly wish I still had it, or could, at the very least, find it online to prove that I actually did have it at one point lol
@@shintaco7517 I looked it up and the results were sooo close to what I remember. It's still driving me nuts that I can't find the exact one lol. But this is definitely in the right direction!
Holy shit, as soon as i saw the tiny screen i recognized it. I was given one of these as a kid, mine was blue and had no mouse but it was the same system. I LOVED it, even if neither me or my parents could understand english, i still remember when my cousin took it from me and i was forced to "share" it with her (aka just give it to her), but gladly my grandma hid it as soon as she got bored and gave it back to me. That cousin ended up getting a pink one with a mouse and making fun of me. Good memories
I hope your work week gets better by today! Watching Wade scream at stuff like this is weirdly relaxing. Like its so relatable to share the feelings here haha.
from embedded system developer perspective it’s quite astonishing that it’s really has a working mouse! i’d like to see the screen being cut replaced with real 14” laptop screen with its gut stripped replaced with raspberry pi.
Or replace the original motherboard with the refurbished Celeron laptop motherboard and 5000mAh battery (I found that it would fit as those cheap laptop motherboards are also very small)
I had a similar piece of crap except worse, as a little kid, needless to say when I got my grandmothers old windows 7 laptop I was thrilled to have it, even though the battery didn't work, I was so happy to finally be able to have something actually fun to use, that actually played youtube videos
Funnily enough, I had a similar device when I was younger. For christmas one year, I think I was 4 or 5, my parents got me one of those desktop-style learning computers. It had many games that I liked playing with, but I remember just how tiny the screen was. Oftentimes I wouldn't turn it on and just pretended to be an office worker in my bedroom. I was a strange kid but I loved it to bits. I remember, the monitor itself had a black bezel with all the games listed and a super simple little screen in the middle. There was also clear plastic that wrapped around the monitor. The keyboard was black with white keys and the mouse itself was solid black. I can't for the life of me remember the brand or model, and i've got no clue what happened to it.
I genuinely had one when I was 5 or 6 I remember usining it every day it was a blast. I almost forgot all these gorgeous sounds from my childhood. Thank you for bringing back all these memories
I remember having something a lot like this that was Batman themed. Had the same janky screen and all of the number codes along the bottom of the screen to show you how to access the games and music. Kinda brought back some fun little memories.
I actually owned one of them as a kid, not the same exact model (mine was designed like a modern laptop) but the same software with the same oversized bezel. This takes me back.
I remember having something like this when I was a kid... back in the 90s. Based on the Vtech wiki/fandom page, it was the PreComputer Power Pad. I more or less learned basic Basic through it, and spent most of the time when I had it just on the Basic function.
i had a hot wheels themed version of this, and it even had an optical mouse. i barely remember anything about it, but i had it when i was 5 in 2009. about 7 years later, my younger siblings got something shockingly similar, but under the discovery channel’s branding. i’ve even still seen these things sold at discount stores (like dollar general and big lots) here in the us.
I got one of those (or something extremely similar) for my kid when he was like 3 because he always wanted to be on my laptop while I was working. 100% would recommend! Perfect distraction and it kept him from wrecking important stuff! Good memories, thanks for the flashback!
That's _definitely_ an unlicensed sample of the TNG transporter sound effect scrolling on the menu. The way the chord modulates down in amidst the schwooshy texture is identical. Specifically sounds like it's from one of the movies I think. Kinda ballsy on their part ngl.
the fact that it actually looks like a real computer from the box is even funnier. also I've had a few Oregon scientific products over the years and i gotta say that usually they're pretty good
Honestly, I can see this being really good as a niche tool to help kids learn. It teaches them bare minimum tech literacy (navigating menus, using a keyboard), exposes them to basic vocabulary... It's swamped today, and definitely outdated by 06, but I feel like this had potential.
i had one of these as a kid. granted, i was like 2, and my nugget was significantly less featureful, not even a backlight, but it was what made me get into tech. so much nostalgia.
I had a similar laptop to this when I was little. Unfortunately i don't remember the brand, but it was red and yellow and was a bit more basic compared than this, as it was intended for 5/6 years old (but some games were quite similar). The synth voice was in my native language (portuguese). I literally learned to read at 4 years old thanks to that little nugget, and it definetly paved the way for the tech passion i have today. Who knew that the worst laptops could unlock some of our best memories... Thanks Dankpods, amazing as always.
To be clear, some of those noises are the "Teleportation" sound from the Transporter system on Star Trek when you're selecting a game to play. And the sound you get when you get a good score is the futuristic doorbell sound that would ring when someone wanted to come in. I can't believe they got away with that
i remember these fake laptops for kids. Usually they where more toy looking. can't imagine the poor kid that got this one genuinely thinking it was a laptop at first.
I love how the typing game sound is just a super bitcrushed version of the star trek door chime (also like 80% the weird level select is just the transporter sound, also super bitcrushed).
Oh hey, I remember stuff like this showing in the toy stores ads! The mouse cursor actually moves pretty smoothly considering basically non-existent screen resolution:) I'm pretty sure that menu sound is just the transporter sound effect from Star Trek: TNG, or possibly ripped out from some ST game- and with audio quality stomped to the ground:) Speaking of, pretty sure confirmation sound in programs (Games? Apps? _Experiences?_ Whatever you want to call them) is a off-key door chime from the same show:D
I think I had a Vtech laptop like this as a kid! I remember it being pink, with a smaller bezel (by only 50%), a higher-resolution LCD, and having an ABCDE keyboard instead of QWERTY, which is a terrible idea for trying to teach a kid computer skills. I know I played with it a lot, but I don't remember exactly what I played on it, since it had a large game catalogue similar to this.
I had to scroll far too long to find this comment, but I sure as hell noticed it right away, I couldn't help but yell 'Come!' A la Picard at 3:20 AM which isn't a cool thing to do but I did it friggin sue me ig
I'm 90 percent sure I had either this, or an earlier version. I don't remember having a mouse, nor do I think mine had a red screen, but I swear on my dingus I had one of these. It was good memories until I wrote a small essay on the thing, only for it to not save. First introduction to getting furious at personal computing.
This is very weird to me, because here in Brazil a shit ton of laptops similar to this were sold. But as children's toys, they *looked* like children's toys and didn't pretend they weren't exactly that. They were colorful and themed (like a hot wheels laptop for example). So looking at a "serious looking" computer (like with a black finish and no popular children's IP stapled to it) is really bizarre
I remember when I was a kid I had something just like this (not the same thing), and I loved it, except the screen was this tiny square, this has made me want to try and find it.
Had one of these as a kid, I remember having a lot of fun with it while understanding exactly nothing of how it worked, the very few times it did actually work lmao
I definitely had something even worse when i was a kid. Even smaller screen, no mouse, no expansion cards no nothing. And i think i got it new in 2007.
i had so much fun with this kind of laptop when i was a kid. me and my siblings had exactly that laptop, but a german version and im very fond of the memories from playing with it. the music section was my favorite and the little jingels inbetween gave me a major flashback to that time :)
I had two of these kind of laptops as a kid, one was symbiote spider man themed and the other was hot wheels. The hot wheels one has like a lane at the top of the keyboard that you could attach tracks to either side of and record the speed of the cars going through it (though I’m not sure exactly how accurate the reading was lol)
I heard a story from a guy who asked his parents for a laptop for Xmas as a kid. They gave him a calculator with "Laptop" written on it with a Sharpie.
I think I had almost the exact same toy laptop, the style was different but the UI was nearly identical, I wouldn't be surprised if it was literally the same thing but rebranded. I used to play snake on it for way too long cause I had literally nothing else to do being a 6 year old who couldn't go outside, yes it was also called hungry caterpillar but that's wrong and evil to defame the golden standard of gaming. And once I eventually felt done playing snake for the hour I would try speedrunning the typing tutor mode before I had any idea what the heck speedrunning was. Thanks for resurrecting these boring, yet oddly fuzzy childhood memories
"Kids 4 and under can't handle this much disappointment." Absolute masterpiece of a line, thank you angry australlian man
Most Aussies yell at the TV when watching footy, Wade decided it would be more productive if he yells at shitty electronics instead
I had one of these when I was 5-6 and I loved it lol. It had a different theme with some investigator/cop animation that played on boot-up. The thing had an actual functioning Ethernet port (separate from the mouse port) and (Ancient) serial printer drivers.
An ad came at just the right time to cut off the “isappointment” part of disappointment, so uhhh…
@@kingflippynips3102 What did the ethernet port do?
@@drammo I'd love to know that too
I feel sorry for the kid that asked for a laptop for christmas and got this
That was me on my birthday😂
I had one of these as a kid in the late 2000s
I HAD ONE OF THESE
oof
I had one and i loved it as a kid😂
As far as computer themed toys for children go, that one is actually pretty neat. The working mouse is a treat. I have this weird thing, though, where I will notice some little charecter and wonder who drew that. Wonder how many people actually take the time to notice it. My daughter definitely never talked about the cute cartoon mouse playing soccer on the frame of the electronic soccer net toy, yet someone made that charecter, and it was printed on a sticker to put on the toy. So seeing those animations really hit that feeling hard. Someone made them, likely only for this one toy. I wonder how many people had ever seen them before today.
Oh yeah. Now I wonder if there's a German word for that feeling...
Ya I think he doesn't realize it's a toy for children... as far as it's classification, it's not a laptop, but a learning tool for children designed to resemble a laptop and in that sense not really a nugget, but for a 5 year old a good bit of random fun and learning 🤷
Sometimes I wonder that myself. Especially if the art style is really nice and cute or if the art looks janky as all hell.
@MadameSomnambule yeah, when it's really nice, the thought is "someone put a lot of time and care I to your design, I wonder if any kids ever noticed you." And when it's super janky (this transfers to cheaply made toys in general too) its more of a "you poor thing, I wonder if any kid has ever really loved you" as if it's toy story or something lol
Toys like this are sold in less developed countries in urban markets all over the world. You'd find these at street side electronic stores in South America etc, and rural stores.
Thing is... My parents bought me one of these (The previous generation) when I was like 3 and I ABSOLUTELY loved it. I could spend literally hours upon hours doing God knows what and just learning stuff. It even taught me how to multiply, and I still have it somewhere in their place. You could even attach a printer to it through a prehistorical serial port.
Besides, one of the activities was a bunch of National Anthems played with that crappy 8-bit like sound. I think that's why most of my little friends of that time ended up with migraines or voices in their heads.
Thanks for the memories, Wade. Thank you a lot.
Same. I had something really similar around 99/00, I don't think it had a full keyboard board, but it had the same bezels around the screen and some "fun" puzzle games
It's not a collection of anthems if it's missing the USSR anthem.
Similar story, I got a VTech Genius Leader 6000SL as a kid in the late 90s and I absolutely loved it. Bonus points: it actually tried teaching me a programming language (it had a whole BASIC interpreter built in and you could program your own things on it). Granted, not much of it stuck but hey...
@@Isomnator57Was it a Vtech? I also had one similar
I used to have a similar one, but it had a mandatory USB type of thing that you had to plug in to make it work, I forgot what was it's name.
I remember a friend in 6th grade was always bragging that he had a laptop (this was when the 3310 still reigned supreme). One day I went over there and it was one of these things. He made it out to be like a gaming laptop better than most consoles at the time...
I acted like it was the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Honestly... good for him. It's good to take pride in the things you have in life 😅
I only did that cus I bought it off you
I had a friend like that at school, not sure I haven't seen him since then but I do hope he eventually figured out that there was more to be gained by telling the truth.
I would not have put on the act like you , you are a good friend.
Will you be my friend?
@biglevian you are a good friend if it was me I would have straight tell him that this thing is sh*t.
At least it was tangible. I had a friend in first grade who said he had a hoverboard from Back to the Future.
NOOOOO I remember getting a laptop exactly like this and I was so excited to get my first computer. I was a kid so I didn't realize how tiny the screen actually was until I opened it. I tried very hard not to look disappointed in front of my aunt. I played with it once and got bored of it.
lmao this happens all the time as a kid
Yeah it’s incredibly difficult to pretend to look happy with a disappointing present
thats how those kids toys usually go. i got a toy camera one year (weird blobby vtech one), after my brother had gotten a camcorder. played with it once then just took his old camcorder to use lmao. Same thing with those toy consoles
I got mine when I was maybe 3 or 4 and I distinctly remember it was at the same time I was learning how to write my name and all that. and because of that, I used to have an obsession with writing out my personal info like name and address so I was always typing that on the laptop any time I could. nothing else. just type type type type. even if it didn’t show up on the screen. glad that thing wasn’t connected to the internet.
Ashens, LGR, and Dankpods all in one. Perfection.
Just need Techmoan and the 8bit guy and bigclive and it will be complete
@@laurencescullyThe Infinity stones of technology TH-camrs.
@@laurencescullyAnd Maybe hugh Jeffrey's and psivewri as well
Edit: Almost Forgot The retro Future, MattKC and MichaelMJD
The crossover we all wished happened.
@@CyanoTex can't forget about Technology Connections!
As an Oregonian, I'm proud that we were able to make the worst laptop that Wade could find
I was waiting for him to try to pronounce Oregon...
@@projectsandstuff4834he pronounced it once, he did it correctly
@@projectsandstuff4834 he does at 0:32 he doesn't absolutely butcher it either
Oh wow, I don't know how I missed it! Thanks!
@@projectsandstuff4834 He did that fine. What I want to see is him try to say “Willamette.”
That janky voice saying "COM-PYU-TUR" at 9:19 would actually be a sick sample for a techno song or something.
fr😊
The nugget classification has extended to the laptops. Can’t wait for airliners to be called nuggets.
Do you mean Spirit Airlines?
Ryanair
the cirrus vision jet is definitely a nugget
@@ch4z_bucksfr
Delta's CRJ200s (good riddance) they'd always fog up like a haunted house and passengers thought it was smoke
This reminds me the V-Tech laptop I had as a kid. My most clear memory of that laptop was putting in the gutter after a big rainstorm and letting the current carry it down into the storm drain outside the house.
That's one way to get rid of it!
It's probably in the garbage patch in the ocean now.
I also had one of those it was awful lol
Me: sees V-Tech
Also me: “but did it kick in?”
Oooo! Me too! I still have it actually, and it still works, though the screen is rather busted. Was yours also entirely in French?
That is hilarious to me. I don't know why😂
Fun fact, the company behind this made a Barbie themed version, and it has an audio in jack. The speakers (yes there are 2) are decent and surprisingly not mono. So you can get really fuzzy distorted audio if you so wish
I had that one when I was a kid and I could not get enough of it.
I happen to have a lot of these Barbie educational laptops by Oregon Scientific. Despite being an adult now, these toys REALLY are entertaining to play with! 😊😁
Pink laptop
Oh thank God I'm not the only one that had one, whatever I tell people about it they think I'm crazy
@furbymaster4239 But you're not. Even boys can like Barbie, and that's perfectly okay. 😊
I like how he's got so many patrons now that he has to talk for a while AND scroll really fast to get the credits in. Proud of him.
The second thing I'm doing when i earn is sub to his patron
@@caspyberry4951what's the first
Aw man this brings me back. I used to have a janky, barbie-themed learning "laptop" just like this one with the huge bezel and everything as a kid. I loved it so much.
Yesss I loved that thing! I would sit and listen to national anthems for so long. I still have the mouse somewhere.
There was also a Superman one, and I had that. Same beautiful red screen, index and all.
i think i had two of these, one of them was white with blue accents and the other one was a ladybug patterned one
I had a hotwheels one as a kid
i had a bratz one lol
6:53 “press any cheese to make us follow the beat”
Petition to put the mousepad over the ipad to protect that poor little thing
Honestly the abuse that ipad faces makes me flinch every time
ipood
@@Shrek_Has_Covid19tmi
It already has a case on it.
@@Aeduo MIND YOUR BUSINESS
I love how the mouse uses an RJ45 plug. It’s like the manufacturers picking out which one to use were like, well they are both used in computers. The USB uses too much metal. That too expensive.
I had a keyboard that used an RJ11 to connect to the cable. Which could be taken off. And if you pry it open and take the foil and pcb out, the rest could just go into the dishwasher.
Modular jacks are easy to make and you won't hurt anything by plugging a real LAN into this machine nor that mouse into a network jack. I met one which did use fake USB! It killed the USB controller I plugged it into.
This is more for the sanity of the parents which own it.
Just imagine mouse uses 3.5 mm jack
@@parekhnirajj123 sure, why not. I've had a camera that could output video and audio over 3.5 mm. For a mouse it needs 4 contacts, which is a thing with those plugs.
It's a toy, not an actual laptop,is everyone that dense, seriously?
The graphics on the caterpillar game during the last half minute of the video were pretty good!
True story: When I was a kid, I wanted a laptop so bad that I would take a piece of cardboard and draw my own keyboard and screen, then carry it with me on the school bus and pretend to use it. I also had a cardboard HiFi so I could listen to music.
You're awesome
Man, in elementary school at one point, it got so popular for kids to make and play with fake flip phones that were just folded up paper they got banned from our school.
I don't suppose James could (carefully) tear this down at all? I'm dying to know what CPU this thing has.
Mostly just a simple black blob on the motherboard
Like NES on a chip
Odds are its an Intel Core i5 13600K based on the graphics and performance
I would die if it has the same 2 cent samsung chip as cheap ipod knockoff nuggs
You are lucky if it even has any identifiable parts on it
Probably a samsung
It sounds to me like some of the sound effects are stolen from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but being destroyed by the terrible speakers. Like when you go through the different choices on the main menu I’m pretty sure that’s the transporter sound effect, and I heard some game bleeps that sounded specifically like the bleeps of the ship’s computer (edit: it’s the doorbell, I’m such a petaQ) in that show.
The menu option switch noise is absolutely the transporter noise from TNG.
@@Interference22 and those beeps in half the games _(Snake: Frank’s Revenge_ being one that had this beep) sound like one of the comm system beeps from TNG-era LCARS.
THANK YOU. Those success sounds were the damn doorbell on the Enterprise. That sound is burned into my memory.
it’s the next computer generation!
@@Interference22 My first thought was the transporter from Voyager...now I'm not sure
7:39 LOL That is exactly the Star Trek: The Next Generation door chime! Whoever made this toy sat there and figured out exactly which tones to play to match the door chime perfectly
I remember having a VTech toy laptop when I was young. Until I broke it with a pencil. Ah. Childhood.
THATS why this seemed eerily familiar, i had the v-tech one too! i actually forgot all about it
aw man me too! I had the laptop one and I remember really wanting the printer!@@tezzie_
holy wowzers, fellow vtech laptop users? I think I still have mine in a cupboard somewhere
I had a vtech laptop and I still use that nugget's mouse pad to this day with my gaming mouse. If it works...
I had 2 models, they were one of the computers of all time
I love how they used Star Trek TNG transporter sound effects for scrolling between menu options right at the beginning at 04:55, did anybody else pick up on that? And then Halo button sounds later on, this machine really was ahead of it's time
I heard it! I swear I heard the TNG "doorbell" sound effect too.
Nice! I missed due to the bit crush
Yeah, and the door chime is also in there. they sound like they were reproduced by hand too and not just a recording so it probably took some effort haha
I'm glad I checked the comments because I watched the video at low volume at work, and the confirmation sound on the typing tutor sounded so familiar that it bothered me all day.
@@radpadraicI have that as my notification sound, so imagine the confusion when that thing starts beeping
I love that Wade always shouts out Ashens when he can.
I had this exact same laptop as a kid, this brings back fond memories, used to play with it all the time :)
At one point I even tried plugging in an actual Ethernet cable into the mouse port, connecting it to a router, to my disappointment it just periodically emitted a warning sound :)
I had something similar when I was a tween. It was a vtech with the optional extra software already on the flash memory. I hated it :'3
I remember owning a vtech nitro notebook as a kid. It was actually pretty fun and I remember it having some decent games on it. The thick bezel is still pretty funny in retrospect 😂
Imagine thinking oh cool I’m getting a laptop as a kid and receiving this with its tiny screen 😳😳
I had a Hot Wheels version of this with the exact same software, the only difference is that it had a really cool speedometer built into it
Imagine rigging that up to your honda civic
Beat me to it in the comments, I also had a spider man themed one
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Lmao if it was like that one FnF scene with the guy playing Gran Turismo in his car instead it’s the hotwheels bezel computer 9000
That way you can track how fast you throw it when you have a tantrum because you couldn't get your cheddarmite scrolls
i had a batman one with, believe it or not, MORE BEZEL
I had a toy laptop like this when I was younger, and seeing this made the nostalgia hit so hard. I paused the video at one point and spent SO LONG looking it up to see if I could figure out which one I had. I couldn't find it and honestly it just feels like a fever dream that I even had it to begin with. I am pretty sure that it was made by Vtech, because those are the only ones that look even remotely close to what I remember. It had a ton of games and activities on it, and a tiny screen like this one. I honestly wish I still had it, or could, at the very least, find it online to prove that I actually did have it at one point lol
It might be a "Talking Whiz-Kid"
@@shintaco7517 I looked it up and the results were sooo close to what I remember. It's still driving me nuts that I can't find the exact one lol. But this is definitely in the right direction!
Holy shit, as soon as i saw the tiny screen i recognized it. I was given one of these as a kid, mine was blue and had no mouse but it was the same system. I LOVED it, even if neither me or my parents could understand english, i still remember when my cousin took it from me and i was forced to "share" it with her (aka just give it to her), but gladly my grandma hid it as soon as she got bored and gave it back to me. That cousin ended up getting a pink one with a mouse and making fun of me.
Good memories
BASED GRANDMA
Wade, I have had a very rough week at work, today especially. Watching you yell at a laptop that is 50% bezel made it all worth it.
I bet the computer inside that bezel isn't any bigger than that display. The only thing for it's size is to get the keyboard in.
I hope your work week gets better by today! Watching Wade scream at stuff like this is weirdly relaxing. Like its so relatable to share the feelings here haha.
@@ThePivotuserful123 I think it's because Wade talks like how all Americans *wished* Aussies talk 🤣
More like 95% bezel to call this thing a laptop is ridiculous 🤣
jo dude hope that you feel better soon but same here and the week just started... but this is is like a weird form of therapy for my soul haha XD
from embedded system developer perspective it’s quite astonishing that it’s really has a working mouse! i’d like to see the screen being cut replaced with real 14” laptop screen with its gut stripped replaced with raspberry pi.
Or replace the original motherboard with the refurbished Celeron laptop motherboard and 5000mAh battery (I found that it would fit as those cheap laptop motherboards are also very small)
I really like these ideas. :D
6:37 "Use the arrow keys to choose a melody AND BREAST CANCER" wut
💀
On my first watch, I heard press enter, I can't hear anything but breast cancer now lmao
One must think that Frank is happy being the way they are.
One must think Frank happy
0:21 I love how he throws it so carelessly yet it manages to land so perfectly.
I was wondering what was so wrong with it... then I saw just how little was actually screen
I had a similar piece of crap except worse, as a little kid, needless to say when I got my grandmothers old windows 7 laptop I was thrilled to have it, even though the battery didn't work, I was so happy to finally be able to have something actually fun to use, that actually played youtube videos
i remember getting one of these after saving 60 coupons from newspapers
Funnily enough, I had a similar device when I was younger. For christmas one year, I think I was 4 or 5, my parents got me one of those desktop-style learning computers. It had many games that I liked playing with, but I remember just how tiny the screen was. Oftentimes I wouldn't turn it on and just pretended to be an office worker in my bedroom. I was a strange kid but I loved it to bits. I remember, the monitor itself had a black bezel with all the games listed and a super simple little screen in the middle. There was also clear plastic that wrapped around the monitor. The keyboard was black with white keys and the mouse itself was solid black. I can't for the life of me remember the brand or model, and i've got no clue what happened to it.
I genuinely had one when I was 5 or 6 I remember usining it every day it was a blast. I almost forgot all these gorgeous sounds from my childhood. Thank you for bringing back all these memories
I remember having something a lot like this that was Batman themed. Had the same janky screen and all of the number codes along the bottom of the screen to show you how to access the games and music. Kinda brought back some fun little memories.
YOOOOOOOO ME TOO :DDDD
I hope Dankpods can get his hand on it one day!
I had a Barbie one! And there was a little credit card type thing that added even more games to the laptop
@@eliottbidstrup9611SAME I had the Barbie one too!
I think I had one too as well but I can’t barely remember much though.
That digitized voice is straight Joshua from War Games..."Shall we play a game?" Mate, you might have just annihilated SSSR
I actually owned one of them as a kid, not the same exact model (mine was designed like a modern laptop) but the same software with the same oversized bezel. This takes me back.
9:00 the most pixelated mouse in existence
I remember having something like this when I was a kid... back in the 90s.
Based on the Vtech wiki/fandom page, it was the PreComputer Power Pad.
I more or less learned basic Basic through it, and spent most of the time when I had it just on the Basic function.
Basically some 80s home micro, but sold as educational tool.
I love how they use Star Trek Sounds for nearly every single menu item. Beautiful.
i had a hot wheels themed version of this, and it even had an optical mouse. i barely remember anything about it, but i had it when i was 5 in 2009. about 7 years later, my younger siblings got something shockingly similar, but under the discovery channel’s branding. i’ve even still seen these things sold at discount stores (like dollar general and big lots) here in the us.
0:19 Bro really meant big price and smol performance 💀
I am wondering why this computer has super bit-crushed versions of Star trek sounds...like the transporter or the doorbell. Very interesting?
When Wade uploads to DankPods it always brightens up my day just a little
Same here his content is so relaxed and funny and I can just watch every single video like a million times and it’s always fun.
imagine showing up to a lecture with this and blasting it full volume
I mean, in 8:34, the animatronics *do get a bit quirky* in this computer 😂
I got one of those (or something extremely similar) for my kid when he was like 3 because he always wanted to be on my laptop while I was working. 100% would recommend! Perfect distraction and it kept him from wrecking important stuff! Good memories, thanks for the flashback!
Glad to know decoy laptops work on more than just cats :P
the audio of you rubbing the mic made my spine collapse and all my teeth fall out. thank you
That's _definitely_ an unlicensed sample of the TNG transporter sound effect scrolling on the menu. The way the chord modulates down in amidst the schwooshy texture is identical. Specifically sounds like it's from one of the movies I think. Kinda ballsy on their part ngl.
The noise one of the games makes is the tng doorbell too
also the "someone at the door" sound
And one of the selection sounds is a poorly converted version of the Doorbell chime from TNG, too.
@@Flon22 I noticed it seemed to use half of it after writing that yeah. Quite strange choices really!
I was going to comment on the multitude of ripped TNG sound effects
the fact that it actually looks like a real computer from the box is even funnier.
also I've had a few Oregon scientific products over the years and i gotta say that usually they're pretty good
What kills me about the bezel is the fake icons, and the fake scroll bars around the screen LMAO 🤣🤣
Honestly, I can see this being really good as a niche tool to help kids learn. It teaches them bare minimum tech literacy (navigating menus, using a keyboard), exposes them to basic vocabulary... It's swamped today, and definitely outdated by 06, but I feel like this had potential.
didnt know there was non "kid flashy" themed versions of those kinds of toy laptops back in the day fascinating!
9:27 As a duck myself, I can indeed confirm that was a duck.
Man I had one of these as a kid. I loved it. This unlocked a ton of memories for me. As a dumb little kid, this thing was so much fun.
😂
Can't believe the nugget realm is extending to the point of having laptops, Great work!
Nugget is life. Nugget is everything 🌈
Holyyy shit, you found the "laptop" I got when I asked for one on Christmas when I was about five or six.
i had one of these as a kid. granted, i was like 2, and my nugget was significantly less featureful, not even a backlight, but it was what made me get into tech. so much nostalgia.
I had a similar laptop to this when I was little. Unfortunately i don't remember the brand, but it was red and yellow and was a bit more basic compared than this, as it was intended for 5/6 years old (but some games were quite similar). The synth voice was in my native language (portuguese).
I literally learned to read at 4 years old thanks to that little nugget, and it definetly paved the way for the tech passion i have today.
Who knew that the worst laptops could unlock some of our best memories...
Thanks Dankpods, amazing as always.
Leapfrog?
To be clear, some of those noises are the "Teleportation" sound from the Transporter system on Star Trek when you're selecting a game to play. And the sound you get when you get a good score is the futuristic doorbell sound that would ring when someone wanted to come in. I can't believe they got away with that
9:15 "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
A perfect timed scream
3:09 this laptop would go great with the giant nano mp3 player and the Tim Horton's netbook
I had a blue one as a kid, i didnt like it. Then they gave me a gateway from the late 90s and my mind was blown to smithereens.
i remember these fake laptops for kids. Usually they where more toy looking. can't imagine the poor kid that got this one genuinely thinking it was a laptop at first.
5:35 Oh no. They tried to make a rhythm game. Now they're going to get sued by Konami.
yep
I thought konami made PES ?
Man the printing around the screen has better quality than the screen itself.
9:24 - ✨ So much grace in so few pixels~! ✨
Good ducks - even *somehow* fitting a cute lil smile in. ^v^
4:21 when you're losing an argument
I love how the typing game sound is just a super bitcrushed version of the star trek door chime (also like 80% the weird level select is just the transporter sound, also super bitcrushed).
It’s giving me moms “we’ve got laptop at home energy” 😂
Oh my god I forgot things like this existed. I had a "laptop" similar to this one growing up, and I was OBSESSED. This brings back memories
7:00 king cobra
The moment I saw the box it brought back some memories
Not sure if they’re good or bad though
Oh hey, I remember stuff like this showing in the toy stores ads! The mouse cursor actually moves pretty smoothly considering basically non-existent screen resolution:)
I'm pretty sure that menu sound is just the transporter sound effect from Star Trek: TNG, or possibly ripped out from some ST game- and with audio quality stomped to the ground:)
Speaking of, pretty sure confirmation sound in programs (Games? Apps? _Experiences?_ Whatever you want to call them) is a off-key door chime from the same show:D
That was made in 06'? The box looks like it was made in 91'
0:20 That was a perfect throw on to the couch!
Love to see some amazing Oregon tech getting featured, can't wait to see what the bustling town of Tualatin made.
Yeah, especially being only driving distance from there
I think I had a Vtech laptop like this as a kid! I remember it being pink, with a smaller bezel (by only 50%), a higher-resolution LCD, and having an ABCDE keyboard instead of QWERTY, which is a terrible idea for trying to teach a kid computer skills. I know I played with it a lot, but I don't remember exactly what I played on it, since it had a large game catalogue similar to this.
Its trifling that nobody has called out the "you did it correctly" sound effect on this as the Enterprise D's doorbell chime lol.
I had to scroll far too long to find this comment, but I sure as hell noticed it right away, I couldn't help but yell 'Come!' A la Picard at 3:20 AM which isn't a cool thing to do but I did it friggin sue me ig
I'm 90 percent sure I had either this, or an earlier version. I don't remember having a mouse, nor do I think mine had a red screen, but I swear on my dingus I had one of these.
It was good memories until I wrote a small essay on the thing, only for it to not save. First introduction to getting furious at personal computing.
This is very weird to me, because here in Brazil a shit ton of laptops similar to this were sold. But as children's toys, they *looked* like children's toys and didn't pretend they weren't exactly that. They were colorful and themed (like a hot wheels laptop for example). So looking at a "serious looking" computer (like with a black finish and no popular children's IP stapled to it) is really bizarre
7:15 What's that sound? Bit crushed toilet flushes and sadness.
I remember when I was a kid I had something just like this (not the same thing), and I loved it, except the screen was this tiny square, this has made me want to try and find it.
Probably a VTech. In the US, I've only seen junk like this from VTech and Leapfrog.
Can it run doom?
Yes
At about 500 SPF. (NOT frames per second, seconds per frame.)
I had a Bratz themed computer like that when I was younger. 😂 This is such a throwback.
Had one of these as a kid, I remember having a lot of fun with it while understanding exactly nothing of how it worked, the very few times it did actually work lmao
7:36 yo is that the doorbell from Star Trek TNG?
I definitely had something even worse when i was a kid. Even smaller screen, no mouse, no expansion cards no nothing. And i think i got it new in 2007.
Wade, coming home from work and watching these videos is one of the highlights of my week. Thanks for all you do and cheers from the US
what is strange about this little doodad is that it uses Star Trek: TNG sounds.
i had so much fun with this kind of laptop when i was a kid. me and my siblings had exactly that laptop, but a german version and im very fond of the memories from playing with it. the music section was my favorite and the little jingels inbetween gave me a major flashback to that time :)
I’m so glad that this was from my grand state of Oregon. Makes the entire thing so much better
this nugget is worse than a leapfrog toy laptop
I had two of these kind of laptops as a kid, one was symbiote spider man themed and the other was hot wheels. The hot wheels one has like a lane at the top of the keyboard that you could attach tracks to either side of and record the speed of the cars going through it (though I’m not sure exactly how accurate the reading was lol)
2:07 those are smartcards same things that go in cable tv to get channel listings
I heard a story from a guy who asked his parents for a laptop for Xmas as a kid. They gave him a calculator with "Laptop" written on it with a Sharpie.
I think I had almost the exact same toy laptop, the style was different but the UI was nearly identical, I wouldn't be surprised if it was literally the same thing but rebranded. I used to play snake on it for way too long cause I had literally nothing else to do being a 6 year old who couldn't go outside, yes it was also called hungry caterpillar but that's wrong and evil to defame the golden standard of gaming. And once I eventually felt done playing snake for the hour I would try speedrunning the typing tutor mode before I had any idea what the heck speedrunning was. Thanks for resurrecting these boring, yet oddly fuzzy childhood memories
I played the qix type game a lot myself, i mostly stayed away of the educational games myself lmao