Gizmondo: The Worst-Selling Handheld Console Ever
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2018
- A deep dive into the infamous Gizmondo by Tiger Telematics from 2005! Its rapid rise and fall, the packaging, the games, and the odd legacy it leaves in its wake. May include wrecked Ferrari Enzos and melty rubber.
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What kind of world do we live in when a flooring company can't make a decent handheld gaming console?
Roadstar1602 I don't know a company that made playing cards did pretty good, as did a company that makes theme park rides, one that made PC operating systems and one that made TVs and audio players
Keep in mind that according to my sources this was competing with the N-Gage of all things. At least that thing let you make phone calls.
Roadstar1602 Even the Connecticut Leather Company was able to sell a few million ColecoVision consoles. How times have changed.
John the Crossover Master N-Gage was a little earlier as I remember it competing and dying alongside the GBA, maybe the redesign lasted until 2005. I think there was some vague N-Gage successor mentioned around this time but I don't think it ever released.
Roadstar1602 😂
The fact that the only Gizmondo commercial uses the same fact about bees as the intro to the Bee Movie makes me want to believe the Gizmondo exists in the Bee Movie universe, and is canon
If DreamWorks made a sequel to that film nowadays. I can totally see them referencing this thing.
I refuse to believe someone actually published a game and named it Sticky Balls.
"Fathammer Classics" isn't much better...
@@Louis-wp3fq doesn’t sound as absurd tho
11:30 It also has WAP 2.0
Apparently we live in the bad timeline...
It's the name of an English dessert. It's a bit like spotted dick or bread pudding but it tastes more like creamy stick or sweaty egg sacks
"Let's see what 400 dollars got you in 2005!"
A DS and PSP. That's what you could a got instead. 2 MUCH better handheld game systems!
Seriously. This is like whiffing BADLY in a sports draft.
@@thebestcentaur Ryan Lief level bust.
And cheaper too.
You could get a DS and a bunch of games for $400. Same with the PSP.
@@keybyss7671 If you got all games for 35$, you could get a new DS and 7 games for less than this things asking price, assuming this was back when the DS was still hot shit
Cough cough you forgot the Gameboy advance
The unsold Gizmondos were all turned into 7-11 security cams.
LMAO
Really?
Each with built-in ads?
@@SpideyfanX of course
I believe you
I love how the only one with a happy ending was the car that got split in half.
And then, the car was restored and sold. What a happy ending.
That means that technically, Gizmondo was worse than a car crash.
if he was a friend of Phil swift the car could've stayed one piece
@@Mkhwlani Phil swift could've made him a new car outta flex tape
Lord English doesn’t know what a panini is
Gizmondo had the most extravagant “booth” at E3 2005. They literally built a recreation of a town and just parked a Porche Carrera GT in the middle. There were also scantily clad booth babes everywhere demoing the system. Spared no expense. Ill never forget it.
No wonder my dad came back looking energized after that - I was too young to remember the details, but I love the imagery😂🤣
@@T80DeltaE3 2005 is considered by many to be the last “true” E3. It was a show to be sure.. and the after parties were crazy. I worked for Alienware at the time and was invited to a couple. Good times indeed.
I remember going to a Gizmondo store in central London. I was using my PSP to listen to music and the staff said PSP was crap and going to fail.
It sold 81.09 million though?
🤡
The 2000s version of NFT Bros
that's hilarious looking back now
@Rayray what could you even buy in the Gizmodo stores? Their system didn't have many games & barely anyone bought the console
I remember wanting this so badly when I was 12 years old, I saw it in a magazine that was comparing the gizmondo vs the psp, I thought the psp was stupid and that the gizmondo was the coolest damn thing ever made. I'm glad my mom got me a psp for Christmas a year later
@@0wthothman301 i'M dRuNk!!111
Same. If they had used a better control stick and had enough games on launch day me and a ton of my friends would have got one. But by the time we saved up enough there was already reviews in magazines about the bad controls and lack of games, so we all just got PSPs 🤷♀️
@@0wthothman301 lmaaooooo sanmme drunk af watching old tech stuff is dope as hell
Wow, you were dumb when you were 12. xD
@Din Ding maybe he's an uzbek, i hear they party hard
gizmondo camera actually looks good because it makes everything look like a hipster album cover
That's what I genuinely liked. It makes for cool late 90's and early 2000's type of pics.
But other than that, it's trash all around.
Early 2000s were the most hideous era in the history of photography. Everything looked like complete shit for the better part of a decade.
@@pearz420 whatever kid, you're too young to understand.
@@riddell26 im old enough to know we had no business transitioning to digital at the time. We didnt have the hardware to outclass a shitty little disposable camera and "affordable" camcorders would record at like 12fps and a 3 digit bitrate. It was stupid. 1890s footage looks better than a video of someone in 2006
@@pearz420 That's part of the charm.
"getting children to keep a GPS tracking device with them at all times was a tough sell"
Well that statement hasn't aged well
It’s all internet there phone
@@megami215 Hä?
Why? Phones have gps capabilites but you can just... Turn em off. Not so here
@@DimT670 that's a huge misconception and the most telling sign you've never worked in cybersec lol if people knew how vulnerable modern technology was, we would have a massive growth in Mennonite and anti-tech society.
@@DimT670 all phones with sim cards ping their locations to cellular towers pretty much all the time.
I remember I went to the store in London. I already had the psp and ds, but when you’re a serious gamer, you have to have ‘em all! Anyhow, I went to the store, just a few weeks after the opening, and oh man. There was no one there, the place was absolutely dirty, the staff was walking around like a herd of zombies, and most if not all of the machines were off. I walked out after 30 seconds thinking ‘if this is the Gizmondo experience, then I want none of it’.
Just FYI. Most rear engine super cars are designed to break in half in a crash to separate the driver from the engine.
Jason Brewer That’s actually really interesting, I didn’t know.
That is actually pretty clever
I was just wondering how did they EVER manage to repair that utterly shredded car and turn it around and resell it for 1.4 mil when I saw your comment... mystery solved.. lol :-D
Thanks, Jason
Came here to comment this
@Roborav That's not being built "shoddily", that's being built with safety in mind. Nearly all cars are designed to do similar things in the event of a crash to increase the safety of the driver.
The story behind the device is even more interesting than the system itself
I hope you don't live in Sweden, if you know what's good for you paisan...
lol threats from retards on the web. Never change YT never change
I was talking about the Swedish Mafia's connection to the gizmondo but okay
It's not scary.... until you find out how they make the meat balls.
suddenly the swedish chef got a lot scarier.
My dad was involved with this company. He helped tiger telematics secure funding, and I still have 2 of these from before they were publicly available. So much nostalgia! I have all the sample games too. Full of glitches because they were never finished for final production.
One of the most interesting things about the Gizmondo was the fact that they intended to sell 2 different devices - one at a higher price with no ads, and one at a lower price with location-based ads. In 2005!!
I remember being able to plop in my SIM card from Cingular to send texts! Truly ahead of it’s time.
I could go on and on
ok
@@RileyBanksWhodon’t be a hater
“Umm my Dad works at, Tiger Telematics.”
@@lineialquantum stop making assumptions and stop hating on my comment.
@@RileyBanksWho May I have a sip of your Haterade kind sir?
For 2005, the hardware seems impressive. Like it's actually doing 3D pretty well, around or maybe better than the DS, has a camera, load videos and musics, and has a GPS. Although with a $400 price tag, none of that is really enough to make people buy it
the screen was too small, the audio quality was very low and the controls... that thing was too small.. who tf designed it ? The psp was at least 100 times better.
3D is much better than a DS . this thing was easely twice the power of the DS.... but nintendo nether sell console with power since gamecube . They sell with good game and good gameplay
"Getting children to keep a GPS tracking device with them at all times was a tough sell."
Oh how times have changed...
Sharing your info with the Swedish mob or Facebook. Tough call. Not sure we got it right.
I'd feel safer if the Swedish mob had all of my info that FB does...
Well, children -and many adults- want people to know where they are and the (so they believe) interesting places they visit using social media, yes, but ONLY when they want to. Nobody wants to be PERMANENTLY controlled, and any young person specially refuses to be controlled by their parents at all times, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, so no, things have not changed that much.
This is just a dumb comment. If that GPS device had all the software and connectivity phones have today, of course they’d carry it around. Likewise if you told someone to carry a GPS device today that did nothing else, you’d still have no uptake.
BlownMacTruck you're really overthinking 5 words
So every picture of Bigfoot taken as been on the Gizmondo. This makes sense now.
DoubleD1978 The true cryptozoologists device of choice
Hahahaha
Nah, you gotta use a 0.1 megapixel camera
im pretty sure that there are more pictures of Bigfoot then Gizmondos out there XD
Lol 😆
I remember a kid in my high school had one and I was so confused because even at the time it came out it was considered a complete obscurity
It is obsurity in all times tbh
I recall the Sidekick the same way. One friend had one, and I was always like - does your normal phone not work anymore? And have you not heard of Game Boy Advance or DS?
fun fact: richard burns rally is recognized as one of the hardest and most realistic racing games EVER. imagine trying to play that on a gizmondo
your not wrong its hard
So yeah, I used to work for Gizmondo.
There is even a Swedish short documentary about the whole mess.
At least I got to promote the god damn thing at E3 :)
I salute your place in history, sir
LGR Thanks, it really was a fun time in a way.
What did you do at gizmondo? I’m curious
@@bandombeviews6035 x2
Can I Sue you for 600$. ?
Eric: I'M PART OF A ANTI TERRORISM TASK FORCE!
Bus company: Dude we're just giving old people rides
Aunty Relocation Transport
I'm here for the Sticky Balls lolz 😄
Technically Eric (Erik) is his father's name. In Scandinavian countries, the child does not have the same last name as the parents. The child's last name is their father's first name (possessive), combined with either "son" or "dotter". So the last name of the son of Hjalmar would be "Hjalmarsson", and the daughters would be "Hjalmarsdotter". Also, the spelling of dotter varies, it's either dotter, dottir, dóttir, or datter.
*makes game console called ISIS*
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@@TheEpicDiamondMiner The search party has returned from Sweden. They were unable to find who tf asked.
Stefan Eriksson spent so much time working on sponsorships for vehicular sports one would think he’d want to be a racing team owner or something and just got saddled with making a game console.
Well the one commercial they made looked exactly like a car commercial...
If only he sponsored (or owned) a NASCAR team - S1apSh0es would have also addressed this.
So this was basically a way for the owners of Floor Depot to finance their racing team and write it off. Well played.
I remember when that guy crashed that Ferrari. What a crazy story.
My friends worked for a video game company that was actually a front for the owners to embezzle investor funds. The early 2000s were a crazy time for electronic companies.
What company was it?
I don't remember the name since this happened in 2003-2004. I'll have to reach out to him to make a video on it. I just remember that they would get paid but their checks would bounce and it was later revealed these guys were just looting money from investors.
Super Nicktendo - your friends worked for Atari? ;)
Yellowblanka lol nope.
This was the same criminal who was running MotoRex! Selling r32, r33 and r34 skylines illegally imported. Scary how things are related sometimes
"He doesn't care much about principles"
Seems quite fitting for the founder 😂
@Gernot Schrader you didn't spend 7.5 years in jail like that guy, did you?
The rubber that thing is made of reminds me of the early 2000’s Volkswagens interiors that smelled like crayons Isidro and had the same issue with the rubber breaking down and melting leaving a gooey feeling on a hot day.
I remember hearing about this thing, had my interest at the time. Never seen it in stores and ended up getting a DS and forgetting about it.
I remember having My DS and seeing all these neat systems come out, PSP, Gizmondo and Tapwave. and Almost regreting getting my underpowered DS at the time. But then most of those machines disappeared and the DS started getting REALLY good games and I was pretty happy with it. Got a PSP years later and loved it too.
Ah, I remember the Zodiac too. Along with other failed efforts for home, like Nuon.
Had LBP PSP?
the PSP is really good, games are fun and the system isn't bad. i only have 6 games for it but i would get more
@@radiioo Hack the psp. You can emulate everything up to snes
@@collinhennessy6558 i don't have a computer, only 1 laptop and i don't know coding and stuff
I forgot you were even reviewing a product. What a journey
This is a review?
OMG, I remember going to the Gizmondo Store on London's Regent Street back when it was new (it was a few doors' down from the Apple Store at the time, what a different experience!). What a bizarre device. I had no idea it was so rare, I feel fortune to have played with one!
13:18 that soft plastic/hard rubber was very popular on cheap electronics for most of the 90's and 2000's. It breaks down quickly and is mildly toxic, but was inexpensive to produce. A lot cheap game controllers were covered with it. You can scrape it off but the layer below starts breaking down as soon as it touches air, so its pointless.
That TTA boot screen you get before the GIZMONDO one is actualy a software mod, a hack, to boot pirated games on standard SD cards. Legit unhacked systems will only show the GIZMONDO boot screen and won't play games unless they are on a Gizmondo official SD Card.
Interesting.
I was lent a Gizmondo by the company to showcase on TV, but I held on to it for so long they went bust and didn't need to give it back :S
I feel for you having to keep this pile of trash then! If you still have it, you can now sell it for like 150 bucks bc of its rarity though. You may have to wait for some time, but yes, there are a few dudes that will pay that for junk like this.
Did it come with a membership card for their anti-terrorism task force?
Hello, you!
It's just a pile of goo now.
Are you a youtuber
Back when WAP meant "Wireless Application Protocol", and nothing else.
I had one of these and loved it! (Regretably sold on ebay a few years ago :( . I had the cheap Smart Ads version, in the UK, good value considering there weree no ads! Many fond memories of the community on the Gizmondo Forums, and as the company collapsed all of the games were freely available online from the staff who just wanted fans to enjoy the games they were working on. I used to call is my "Swedish mafia console" lol.
Also, my brain going "Wait, 2005? But that was just - *_THIRTEEN YEARS AGO_* ." Kind of catches me off guard like how I still think of "1995" as just a few years ago - and yet some of you good folks were probably not even alive back then when I was wrapping up college :O
If it makes you feel any better, I was alive in 1995, but I grew up in the 2000s, and I still feel like 1995 was more recent than it actually was.
I'm old enough to remember the 90s, but it was mostly full of things like Bubsy, Dialup Internet, pogs, Tomogatchis, and Netscape Navigator. It was a strange time.
the 1990s were a great time to be a young adult. I don't wanna get all weepy and nostalgic about it, but being in my 20s in the 90s was a really great time.
I was born in 1993 and this happens to me all the time. From 2000 onwards I'm like "but 2006 wasn't that long ag- OH SHIT".
It just means you're young at heart, yet still became an old fart. Just ride the wave dude, i'm there with you...
16:10 Stephan Erjksson - jail@prison Clint, you savage
Stefan Eriksson..
Oh, it's regional dialect
I've been watching you since 2012 or so, love your videos Clint! Keep it up 👌🏼
I love Ashville, NC. Always appreciate your photos of the area.
They made a bee movie script meme in their one and only tv ad before the bee movie even existed. At least they succeeded at *something*
According to all known laws of retail, there is no reason the Gizmondo should be able to sell
and 20-some years after Robert Cormier's The Bumblebee Flies Anyway...
Would like to point out that the Ferrari wreck is perfectly normal at even small speeds and even when impacted IN TO by other cars at an angle in the rear quarter of the car. It's a design element meant to save the cockpit of the car (or habitacle) from the potential death inducing forces that would occur in a normal (rear engine) car when the motor remains on the cockpit during the crash.
There's various design elements that allow it to simply shear off rather than enter the passenger space.
Similarly, modern cars with front mounted engines are designed to have the engine and transmission shear off the mounting points and 'slide' under the car along the drive shaft tub (on front engine rear drive cars) or simply shear off completely (on front engine, front drive cars).
Just my two cents on this, to some, the Ferrari wreck, seems incredible, it is not, it's a safety feature. A similar, but older car (in design aspects and distribution) like a Lancia Stratos, would probably kill the passenger in a similar crash and the engine would not detach (strong mounted).
That's not what Porsche Girl told me...
aserta Fascinating. Thanks for the info!
To be honest it still sounds pretty incredible
High end sports cars are built more like race cars then standard road vehicles. In the event of a high speed crash the car break apart around you transferring as much of the crash energy to blowing the thing apart. Makes for spectacular looking wrecks but it keeps the crew compartment safe.
aserta That makes a lot of sense really. I don't remember what my reaction to it was, except "Was he trying to commit suicide?"
I bought one from my local EB games back in the day. They were selling these out for about 99 bucks back in 2006-2007 i think. It´s opened but almost never used and in superb condition.
You review videos are very well made and also very interesting to listen too as well.
I went to the London launch party for the Gizmondo, it was absolutely ridiculous how much money they had thrown at the event. I remember talking to one of the game Devs who was certain this system was going to have a big impact and got pretty annoyed with me when I said I felt it didn't have much of a future 😂
I remember actually being pretty excited for this thing. Heck, I even went to a Swedish Gamestop (Live in Denmark) to get one.
Only ever used it once, maybe twice before completely losing interest in it tho.
Looking at the sale numbers, it would seem that I alone am responsible for about 1% of the total Swedish sales of the damn thing.
@Captain N What happend to yours?
My bad Adam; I meant to tag the original poster
Hnbj h mvvvvh
Forget this entire story, let's talk about the fact Ferrari managed to fully repair that thing
I'm actually surprised at the graphical capabilities of this thing! That Colors game at the very least looks decent
From the ad, what is apparently Stefan Eriksson's personal motto: "He doesnt care much about principles, do you?"
13:08
Oh god I hate that kind of rubber plastic so much, aging horribly by getting greasy and sticky... Such a despair to find it in so many places.
10:27 Jevil
They predicted it
Yeah like Thinkpads (IBM and Lenovo). Why do they keep using it?
Is there a good way to get that kind of sticky rubber off? I've got a wireless keyboard with the same kind of rubber coating on the handrest. Aside from the coating it's a perfectly fine keyboard.
The sticks on my PS3 controller are doing the same thing and it sucks ass.
Heard the soft rubber used on the Gizmondo ended up atrophying, and most of the ones still around today look like they were left in front of a space heater too long.
Sticky Balls... In my head canon, someone did give a good read to that name and still approved it. Great video as usual!
I know this video is from 2018, but I just wanted to say thank you for putting in the effort of adding closed captions to all of your videos. It helps in so many ways and it doesn't go unnoticed. :)
agreed
I believe it's automatically generated
I did some design and photography work for Gizmondo. I went to their HQ when it was all falling apart. What a shabby set up. Full of miserable half-hearted staff.
Amazed I got paid.
Please detail!
How much did sony pay you for this comment?
Everything about this product says "We put in the absolute least amount of effort." If you can't even get an ergonomic button layout right on a portable system then you have no hope.
Me too. If you called in sick they got the Swedish mafia to shoot your knee caps.
@@legendfpv How much did Microsoft/Nintendo paid you to write this comment?
I sold the Smart Adds Gizmondo I received from a PR friend, in 2016 on eBay before I moved to Japan.
Weird to see one that looks just like it! Can’t be a lot of them around these days.
I also sold the 3 games I got in a separate lot: Trailblazer, Hockey Rage 2005 and Richard Burns Rally.
This was a great video. I didn't know anyone who owned one. Loving these trips down memory lane.
I actually love the aesthetic of the pictures this thing takes. If you showed me a photo from this thing and asked me what decade it’s from, I would say the 1990’s for sure!
agreed. the photos have a good natural vintage aesthetic to them!
We had film in the 1990s. These takes are scary to me. It looks exactly like when it from. Get your eyes and/or memory checked!
“So I got some pizza, stepped in front of a subway train, and died.”
I want that on my gravestone.
damn rights! : )
"Good"
What do you want on YOUR tombstone?
Jess Ragan "Well, that's a bummer"
The widescreen version had potential and could have been a good little console during the early 2000's.
I've had to get rid of so many things with that rubber coating in the last year. NARS blush compacts, a flat iron...
Seinfeld watched the Gizmondo commercial and that's how he got the idea for The Bee Movie.
O shit, how can it be you're in the comments for this video and no one noticed you in the past 30 minutes?
Greetings, and welcome to a Tales From 4Chan thing, the 29th one?
Oh yeah Brendaddy, I could listen to you talk about Bee Movie for hours.
he had to bee
henriquedematos idk who the hell this guy is who the hell are you?!
Just keep in mind, the same year the PSP launched! This thing is a big joke.
it really is a bizarrely awful product. kinda sad that it had the computing power to actually run games but the rest of the hardware was so incredibly terrible.
My local game magazine did a side-by-side comparison of Gizmondo vs. PSP vs. NDS. I remember thinking "why would anyone want to buy this?"
The psp can even play ps4 games with remote play the gizmondo is a fucking joke honestly
School Shooter you are fuckin joke ,psp can’t remote play ps4
@@schoolshooter6105 PSP and PS Vita are different consoles.
What a great deep dive.
This period of time - 2004 to 2006 - and the release of Gizmondo, Tapwave Zodiac, and NGage feels like a gaming fever dream. I remember the buzz when these came out, just as GBA's lifecycle was winding down and Next Gen handhelds from Nintendo/Sony were on the horizon - so these filled that few year void perfectly. I recall a Game Informer article at the time which pitted the three aforementioned consoles against each other, asking "which will come out on top"? I think they leaned toward Tapwave in the article, but the true answer of course was "None of them". 😅
A home furnishings company turned technology company with a history of wasted money and unscrupulous business practices.
I wonder if Aperture Science wasn't inspired by this company.
Mord podd
Zoshi Well they might have had access to the needed time travel tech ...
i actually like how the pictures came out, give me so retro feels
Yeah you are right. Modern phones need lame filters for those same feels.
I would buy this just so I could take aesthetic pictures
Yeah me too. It's nice
Yeah it's been enough time now that the early digital camera aesthetic has its own appeal, it definitely places the photos they take in time
I can't relate to this at all. It's objectively shitty photography in every category. Why not get retro feels from actual film? This is maybe the most desperate nostalgia I've ever encountered.
To give everyone an idea of how small 14 games is: Counting the Japan-exclusive games, the Virtual Boy had 22. Gizmondo had fewer games than the VIRTUAL BOY.
As someone that bought a Zune on launch... I've learned to wait about a month past a consoles release before making the jump lol!
That's some crazy history.. Also the whole "doesn't care about principles.. do you?" sounds like it carries quite some extra meaning given the guy's history...
“It doesn’t care much about principles. Do you?”
“You like jazz?”
You can't get more 2000s than a Chalupa-shaped gaming device.
Zzyzx Wolfe Surely there was a Taco Bell promotion at some point - Taco Bell is to go to miss a PR collaboration like that
They certainly missed out.
This, the original Game Boy Advance, and the Nokia N-Gage. The early 2000s were like Tex-Mex for handheld systems.
George Vasquez don't forget the psp. It gets sad when you forget about it ;(
Were any of the PSP models chalupa shaped? I just remember them as rectangles with rounded corners.
ironically the same launch price as the Valve Steam Deck of $399 but OMG what you get for your money back then was so little compared to what we get today from Valve!
The video is actually very interesing. Subbed
That built-in camera is 100% vapourwave ready, it has that low-res charm.
effluviah YES I was just thinking that.
+Cody Khaos Make sure not to cut yourself on the edge there buddy.
don't worry he's just a swedish mafia man, the worst he can do is throw a meatball at you
Incognito Burrito I know man, its so crazy. If Im lucky, the edge will be so sharp that I kill myself too... I got a first class ticket to hell and I have no fucks to give ya... Santa Muerte will have her bounty... Adios sucker...
X-Fun P.S: Your youtube channel is lame as fuck, lol...
Ahhhh.....the 2000's. Full of hope's, dreams, and failure. Good times!
How lol
Man, you gotta love these guys! This dude that made the Gizmondo, McAfee, and there were a bunch of others. Such stories!
I didn't expect the rattling off of increasingly outlandish parts of the tale of this thing at the beginning to actually turn out being true, I thought you were BS-ing lol
The technology here really takes me back. Around this time, I was working on mobile operating systems, and it really took a while for the industry to realize that a multifunctional handheld mash-up device like this really wanted to be sold as a smartphone. Both of the companies I worked for in that sector originally didn't realize that, and lost some time thinking of their product as the OS for a sort of jumped-up PDA and messaging device before realizing "oh, it has to be a phone". I think one of them died in part because it took them too long to make that mental shift. (On the other hand, realizing it is no guarantee: witness the Nokia N-Gage.)
For some reason I always end up returning to this video. This machine is so just interesting and I always enjoy having Clint talking in the background.
I remember this device and it’s screen was really easy to see in direct sunlight back when I had it in 2007
I wonder if the GPS not working has something to do with the "GPS week number rollover" event, where any device that didn't receive an update to compensate for the week number reset would straight up stop working. I know this vid was shot in 2018, and the rollover happened in 2019, but there was some reports of devices that didn't include the whole list of original week numbers and had failed early. Maybe the people behind the Gizmodo skimped on the whole list and that's why it doesn't work even back in 2018. Age shouldn't be a factor. I have a GPS receiver from the late 90s I picked up at a thrift store that worked right up until the week rollover happened.
As a young child, I thought it was “Scamdanavia” and that’s where scams were invented.
chibi hungary He is closer than you think
Holy shit, a Hetalia roleplayer on TH-cam in 2018? Never saw that coming.
Scamden*
Only the Swedes do this shit. Getting people trapped in IKEA because they can't find the exit (that's why they sell meatballs) and Ericsson being notorious for making phones that broke 1 day beyond warranty.
Fun fact: If a GPS receiver has been off for a long time, the first thing it has to do I find one satellite, and then receive the almanac from that one satellite. Based on how message data is encoded, it takes 12.5 minute to download the almanac. Once the device has the almanac, it then knows roughly where to look in the sky for other satellites, and can start acquiring more.
More modern receivers can either download the almanac from cell networks, or have enough channels (one channel can track one satellite; Gizmondo looks like it can track 12) and processing that they can all just keep searching and eventually find enough.
LGR for breakfast with a cup of coffee. Always the start to a fresh new day.
Favorite part of video:
“Detective Barbie 1 AND 2” on the XP desktop at around 24:30 .... nice....
Why is that the only .exe’s on your computer? Cuz you’re a badass.
14:40 "Mid 2000s skins"
Gaming peripheral manufacturers are still stuck in that time period.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
This thing is just so wierd. I wouldn't mind a Full Tech Tales on this.
It's definitely worth a full documentary of some kind. I was overflowing with crazy details making this video, was hard to keep it concise!
LGR
I hope you have fun making one. I can't wait for the next video. Thank you.
Yes, PLEASE a Tech Tales! It's been too long, and this is a PERFECT subject!
This would be a good crossover episode with Norman from Gaming Historian
Agree and doubling down on it needing a Tech Tale episode. If there's more to the story, I wanna hear you tell it.
Love those skins and ui menus!
I only recall seeing ads of this thing in some PSM (PlayStation Magazine) I was subscribed to way back then.
"Gizmondo Isis"... Well, that name didn't age well at all, did it?
Just ask poor Isis (godess) how she feels about it.
Also, such an insult to the goddess Isis.
Grow up.
@@GiuseppeDongo stop being a dick, Austin.
Melissa The Rotund My apologizes Melissa. I’m sorry you feel that way.
The first loading screen is loading the second animated loading screen...
hingeslevers Loading the loading screen! Me and my friends used to joke about that on a few ps1 games that seemed to do the same thing.
Ah, good times:) I could literally cooked a pack of noodles by the time the console fully loaded.
I remember being a kid, seeing this all over magazines and finding nowhere that sold it, I used to love different consoles.
Got oddly emotional and nostalgic with that late 90's-2000's camera quality aesthetic, and I'm only in my early 20's.
It's quite interesting to learn about handheld devices that I had no idea had existed as I spent my childhood playing my Nintendo GBA SP.
Wavetable Guy same man
That's why it's best to forget what you know, and search for what you don't know. I wish I knew this a long time ago
DeathGamingXP Forget what you know? ....You mean forget about the GBA?
EnclaveSoldier not so much as "Forget" but more along the lines of "Take a break from or put down" explore, search and learn more. Sorry for the confusion.
I remember seeing it on an Magazin and my first Opinion was :"It will die by birth".
The D-Pad looks so bad
*I'm lost in the forest, good thing i have my Gizmondo with me.*
so cool, I always wanted to see one in action
The elephant in the room that you didn't really mention Clint, is the name Gizmondo was just dumb and "uncool". Around the time this released (I remember seeing that commercial all the time), I was between 8th and 9th grade. Something called Gizmondo was a hard sell to a teen boy, meanwhile we were coming off the GBA and excited for the Nintendo DS or the PSP. Their marketing and design team shot themselves in the foot. The device design itself is also extremely goofy.
Wait, wait wait...
Ferrari repaired that TOTALED Ferrari?
HOW
Duct tape.
@@MrFutago87 *flex tape
Rebuilt it from the ground up. It's pretty much not even the same car anymore. Far be it from Ferrari to let an Enzo stay wrecked though.
Sanding, milling parts out of metal and making it so that the car is basically scrapped so they didn’t really repair it. It is kind of like a psp you just got a new one
@Joe Blow they are designed to split in half so that in the case of a crash, the engine is far away from the cockpit and the driver. It's a safety feature to prevent the driver from essentially being cooked alive from engine fires
Fun fact: That Ferrari (as well as numerous other supercars) were designed to be split in half in a high speed crash. This transfers the energy of the impact away from the occupants which is why he managed to walk away.
That explains how it broke apart in such a weird way.
@@meowmocha12 No point having a car like that if you're not gonna drive it 200mph
6:07 "I mean, come on. Of course they did."
Damn thats ice cold.
i actually love the ui and camera of this thing, and the apparent ease of homebrewing it