not gonna lie: I remember this...remember bugging my parents to get me one...got one....used it for all of 3 days......and never touched it again.....until this video.....3 hours later.....figured out why I stopped using it
What's sad is the concept is neat and had they not skimped on the hardware and not locked content behind micro transactions it might have been a good console
I always feel better after seeing videos like this and the Scannerz review knowing that I made the right choice in not asking for them despite thinking they seemed cool.
5:10 “Are they worried I’m gonna run out and sell it? Sell it to who?” Dunno why, but this got a big big laugh out of me. I skipped back just to hear it 2 more times.
It's probably possible for someone to reverse-engineer and spoof an RFID chip to access the unreleased card characters, but that would require someone to pay attention to the HyperScan for more than a few hours.
I remember my family did one of those gift drives one year, where like a kid will ask for things for christmas that strangers will buy for them. The kid asked for a HyperScan. I told my mom that it sucked and we should get him a GBA SP instead. In hindsight part of me feels like an ass because we didn't get the kid what he wanted, but on the other hand, I did give him a gift that was a 1000x better.
Oh, so the video's ready then. As Shane of Rerez TV once said: "It's basically like on-disc DLC. This is my worst nightmare... in card form." Let's see what Billiam thinks of them.
Does anyone else remember those 20 Questions electronic toys? Those were really good at guessing what you were thinking of, plus there were different versions like a music one. I think it might be cool to see a video on those.
The sad part about the Hyperscan is that it's a good idea in theory. Imagine a yu-gi-oh duel disk or a magic playmat that had nfc technology that connected with the cards and displayed a holographic image of the creature or spell on your battlefield. I hope the Hyperscan is the virtualboy of this idea
I remember seeing the Hyperscan in the electronics section of Target when I got the Wii on the day it was released. A few months later, it was gone completely.
I remember the AVGN episode covering it. I also remember Guru Larry’s Fact Hunt covering it once and it being pointed out that it could’ve worked if it was like an add-on to a pre-existing console.
I think you should talk about Lightseekers. A collectible card game that came out at the end of Toys R Us’s life and basically disappeared. You helped save Bakugan. Help Lightseekers
Saw this and immediately thought of Scanners and then it got a half second blip in here. Scanners deserves a video if it doesn't have one already. That was my jam.
I remember having one of these, I had those Xmen and weird intergalactic wrestling cards with it and thought it was going to be the greatest thing ever. Then I actually played it and realized the loading screens take 50 hours to load, stats increased on character cards at a snail's pace, and it was all just the same game over and over and over again. I still have this thing sitting in a drawer collecting dust and haven't touched it since the year I bought it.
My uncle is the scientist guy with glasses in the hyperscan commercial. I didn’t even know he was in this commercial till you featured it in this video lmao.
In concept, you're absolutely right that the Hyperscan was great for the time. The problem is that they didn't capitalize on the whole concept well enough, as well as cheaping out on the hardware. If I could remake this, it would be pretty simple - start by using a faster ROM drive, and if it doesn't load fast enough, use cartridges or game cards, to keep the theme going (if it's good enough for the PC-Engine/TurboGrafx, it's good enough for me). Then get a better, stable RFID unit, and again, make sure it can load quickly - I'm thinking it'll need additional RAM. Now, of course, this already puts it out of the "budget" range they were going for. As you mentioned, the whole thing cost $70, with a pack-in game, and the games were 1/3 the cost of "regular" games; so expectations have to be at about 1/3 what you'd get from a SNES or PS1. Then, I would have put together a rudimentary TCG, to give the cards some value outside of the games, rather than tying them explicitly to the hardware and the hardware to them. That way, if the system fails, the cards can still have value, and if the cards fail, the system has value. But then again, I would have approached it from the mindset of creating two "good" products to create something cool, rather than creating something cool that amounts to being two crap products. I might have also looked into making the Hyperscan more portable, so that said TCG could incorporate the hardware - say, a Wolverine who was leveled in the X-Men game might be more powerful than a stock Spider-Man, that sort of thing.
About 50% on a given attempted scan, 100% over time as the scanner WILL eventually stop working. I have one somewhere. It's far lighter than it should be. The componenta are extremely cheap.
Anybody remember B-Daman? That was a cool thing that happened for a hot minute, and I still remember that cat thing teaching Naruto and Sasuke how to draw a circle and a triangle simultaneously.
They're actually still around under a different name now. They've been redesigned, though, since a number of kids managed to get the magnets out and swallow them.
Oh my god when you asked for ideas you brought something back from my hind brain, please do the OG LeapPad by LeapFrog! I loved mine as a kid and just thinking about it brings back so many good memories.
You know what makes me laugh? I can almost guarantee that, just like the infamous GameCom, playing Hyperscan games through a solid emulator (when one eventually exists) would be a vastly preferable experience to using the actual hardware.
I watched a lot of great personalities make great content for the majority of my life but sometimes a creator stands out. I don't know how to describe it (my english is mediocre) but every time I find one of those creators they casualy begin to talk and it seems to me that they just couldnt do it any other way. As if they found their inner truth and put it on display in their videos. Im getting emotional thinking about it. Its just beautiful. Thank you Billiam
A suggestion for a future review: Class of 3000. It used to be on Cartoon Network in the early 2000s, and I think it would make for a pretty good nostalgic review
My friend had one as a kid, and I remember playing the Ben 10 game for a short period. His mom was a gold digger and had tons of money to throw at it, and we still didn't care about it after a short while. Couldn't have been more than 10 years old and we still knew it was rough. XD
This is so sad, I remember watching commercials for this as a kid and it blowing my god damn mind. I bet I would have still enjoyed it when I got it but I would have known deep down it was a low budget toy. Thank you so much for rediscovering this
I was part of the overnight stocking logistics crew at a-then brand new Super Target store. The Toys section was one of my main areas at the time. I remember when it first showed up because it looked liked something that should be in electronics or in the R/C aisle, but, it was with the main action figures. I scanned it over (no pun intended) and immediately just kind of shook my head because it looked like something from my childhood (born in 1984) when gimmicky game toys actually had a market alongside The Nintendo. I don't need to remind any of y'all how the game market was then in the 00s. A month later it already had "Clearance" stickers on it! I figured it wouldn't last, but, I was still shocked as to just how quickly it was bombing! I think they were all gone before the next month! Catch is, I'm pretty sure no one bought them and they got sent to the backroom to make space for new products that people will actually *buy*.
I remember seeing this at a convention years ago. It was called Gencon, pretty the big convention area for card games. You want to demon a card game or a board game, you go there. I don't remember too well, I thought it was fun, but when it came out I didn't get it and just passed it. The only game they had was X-Men.
The controller lag and the scan time make me think a unique type of turn based RPG using an active time battle style system, would have worked well on this. Like the game would just be some generic fantasy or sci fi thing, no need to go bonkers with the story, but the gameplay would be the main draw. The game comes with all the cards you need, no need for booster packs. You have 2 potion cards, each of which gives you one extra potion per battle, as well as a character swap card, which lets you swap out one character in your party per battle without having to use a turn, and a megaheal card, which restores all your party's health and magic, but can only be used once per BOSS battle. The time limits would work together with the amount of time it takes to scan a card, so you have to think fast. This dude's got a big health bar, and you have 30 seconds until his next attack, do you want to heal up your party, or try swapping out in hopes one of your other members has the stats needed to turn the tables? You only have enough time for one. Fumbling with the cards would add an extra layer of panic for new players, more experienced players could organize them for easier access.
I'm so grateful that modern medicine was advanced enough to eliminate your cancer back when you were going through all of that man. Idk what i'd do without your videos. I don't mean to bring up bad memories I'm just saying i'm very thankful you're happy and healthy.
Y'all remember zhu-Zhu pets? Those mechanical hamsters that were impossible to find during one Christmas season, but were later overproduced and sat unsold on store shelves? .... cuz I do... I had butterball
K I will say, I have one of these, and played it a lot as a kid, mainly ben 10, and that transformation is not supposed to have that cacophony of sounds. The buzzer sound is supposed to play when a scan fails for some reason, so either your scanner is jank or the cards are messed up somehow.
You've heard of "NES on a chip" well this has the SNES equivalent at the core, so there's potential to turn that thing into a worthwhile game console. Mattel must have used some expensive cardboard in those packs.
It would probably be a short episode but maybe Nano Fighters. They were wrestling/fighter v-pets released during a high point in both v-pets & the WWF popularity. I remember a bunch of kids at my school getting them when they came out. They seem to be adaptions of a Japanese K-1 Grand Prix v-pet that licensed actual martial artists, though only one of the "pets" appears to be the same & the American version doesn't use the persons name.
I feel like they really tried to do something interesting with the combination of two different markets. But the execution of the games themselves were so poorly done, and could've been a lot better if they were given more development time and not rushed to market.
@@TheNucaKola I wish as a kid I wasn't so easy persuade to buy this thing. Imm pretty sure it was money grab. I mean look at specs,they could've easily made this console as powerful as a ps1 or 2.
Fun fact depending on what part of the USA you're from, a daddy long leg can refer to the opiliones pictured in the video (also known as harvestmans) , a common cellar spider, or a mosquito hawk. Depending on where you are, each of these are considered "daddy long legs" in their respective areas.
I did own a Hyperscan growing up. I thought it looked super cool and awesome. I will admit I spent *way* too many hours in the different training modes trying to maximize the stats of the characters I had (I bought a booster pack with my console too so I had Wolverine, Lady Deathstroke, the Blob, and IDR who was my second but I remember we had 4 characters). It was, like you said, a cool gimick but ultimately a flop. I would like to see this idea re-visited with an actual attempt made to make it work and not this low-budget trash. Thanks for the memories though! :D
i had a mmbn progress PET, collectable chips, single player rpg mode, pvp, tournaments, and even physical add-ons that affected stats. i wish it took off, but im just sitting here with two PETs, all add-ons, and every chip i could find, for when my friends want to try it some day
My recommendation for old not-great electronic toys would be the R-Zone. There were two version - a headset similar to a DBZ Scouter (but far less cool) and a handheld. It worked by inserting LCD screens into the console which were then reflected off a clear shiny plastic surface. They were also backlit in red, much like the Virtual Boy but far worse. Despite using a then-ancient segmented LCD technology, the games actually weren't terrible. There were multiple Star Wars games, including a Death Star trench run (decent) and lightsaber fighting game (less good but not bad).
Nah most sneezes are satisfying though! The hyper scan is more like one of those disgusting sneezes you do when you’re sick and your snot comes glooping out all over your hands... you expect it to be satisfying when you feel the sneeze coming but then you’re proven wrong by just how awful it is when the sneeze actually happens
I remember seeing these in the clearance bins at Toys'R'us,around 2007. I never picked one up or knew anybody that owned one but it's a weird relic of the 2000's I guess.
This was one of those weird products that I missed. Thank you for sharing about it. Definitely an interesting concept back in the day. So... I know you've done Scannerz but you never mentioned Scan Command in your video. Scan Command was a video game where you raised dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and used DNA (that you got from scanning barcodes and uploading to the game) to improve their stats. You'd then duke them out to the death. Fun game and it was super hard to find a copy in the UK, but I managed! It was in tandem with Jurassic Park 3's release. Would love to see your thoughts.
I also heard that the Hyperscan itself was very brittle and many people who got one ended up having it break in about a week or two. It also had a USB port on it that seemed to serve no purpose because none of the accessories with it could plug into the USB. More points against it.
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Fun fact: The AVGN series had already started when this thing released. And yes of course he eventually covered this trash heap.
Rerez's video on it is also pretty good.
12 days of Shitsmas , episode 10
not gonna lie: I remember this...remember bugging my parents to get me one...got one....used it for all of 3 days......and never touched it again.....until this video.....3 hours later.....figured out why I stopped using it
What's sad is the concept is neat and had they not skimped on the hardware and not locked content behind micro transactions it might have been a good console
I always feel better after seeing videos like this and the Scannerz review knowing that I made the right choice in not asking for them despite thinking they seemed cool.
Same story here! Played it Christmas day and never again after that after I had bugged my parents all year for it lol.
it's the ancestor of the dlc but a lot worse
It was very bad. If it actually had a larger console/popular card game support it could be an interesting idea, but the execution was lacking.
commenting to help Billiam get his money :P
Replying to help Billiam get his money
commenting is good for the TH-cam algorithm.
Money is good 👍🏻
That's fair.
Keep this going
No better way to spend valentines day than with a bizarre hybrid of card reader and video game console.
How the Chads spend such a meaningless commercialized holiday tbh 😤
They really missed their chance to get a Paul Blart game on the console
I had to double-take because I did not intend to watch this video on Valentine's Day a year later.
lol
I'd love it if you could find the Dream Life plug n play game and make a video on that! I remember wanting it really bad.
Woahhhh!
I remember that now! I’d love to see that, too.
It’s so weird seeing a sonic related channel watching this type of stuff
i legit have this thing already... haha
OMFG PLS I LOVED THAT THING
YES PLS i owned this treasure back in the day
5:10 “Are they worried I’m gonna run out and sell it? Sell it to who?”
Dunno why, but this got a big big laugh out of me. I skipped back just to hear it 2 more times.
“Fucking Aquaman??” I had to
It's probably possible for someone to reverse-engineer and spoof an RFID chip to access the unreleased card characters, but that would require someone to pay attention to the HyperScan for more than a few hours.
The biggest anti-piracy method:
So uninteresting no one is going to poke around it.
Or just simply hack the game's code.
"Why would you pay more, to play more of the same bad game"
*Laughs in Gacha*
This thing predicted the dark future of DLC.
And microtransactions
And pay to win
Depends on which game you're thinking of.
Like your pfp
And loot boxes.
Billiam: “It feels like I’m really scanni- IT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE SPIDER-MAN!!!”
“It makes you feel like Batman.”
@@ChoaiDode BECOME THE BATMAN
Trading cards and licensed superhero games, two scams in one! What a deal!
If you listen closely, you can hear Disney salivating at the sound of your words off in the distance.
I remember my family did one of those gift drives one year, where like a kid will ask for things for christmas that strangers will buy for them. The kid asked for a HyperScan. I told my mom that it sucked and we should get him a GBA SP instead.
In hindsight part of me feels like an ass because we didn't get the kid what he wanted, but on the other hand, I did give him a gift that was a 1000x better.
You did the ethical thing
You saved him from the horror of this system.
You're a hero
Bro played that gba for years bro
Oh, so the video's ready then.
As Shane of Rerez TV once said: "It's basically like on-disc DLC. This is my worst nightmare... in card form." Let's see what Billiam thinks of them.
I honestly feel like on disc dlc is the least of our problems in modern gaming.
So thats where i remember it from
adam koralik's given probably the most in depth dive into this but rerez is so funny
I watched that not too long ago
And Shane had to buy multiple Hyperscans because they kept on getting bricked.
Does anyone else remember those 20 Questions electronic toys? Those were really good at guessing what you were thinking of, plus there were different versions like a music one. I think it might be cool to see a video on those.
The sad part about the Hyperscan is that it's a good idea in theory. Imagine a yu-gi-oh duel disk or a magic playmat that had nfc technology that connected with the cards and displayed a holographic image of the creature or spell on your battlefield. I hope the Hyperscan is the virtualboy of this idea
it's kind of a prototype of what Skylanders, Amiibos, and that LEGO collector thing have done.
I remember seeing the Hyperscan in the electronics section of Target when I got the Wii on the day it was released. A few months later, it was gone completely.
It's basically physical lootboxes
Yes
This kind of lootbox is better because you can collect it IRL and in online video games we can lost your account
@@TypeKK it's a dumpster fire
No
@@TheSultan1470 Yeah
I just had a nostalgia filled memory of having this when I was a kid... It sucked lmao
You know something is really bad when your younger self realizes it.
"Daddy Long Legs" can refer to a harvestman, a cellar spider, a crane fly, or a plant. One of those, if you didn't notice, actually is a spider.
I remember this on Avgn. This is so weird
Also Rerez.
And for the real OGs Classic Game Room
I to liked Yugioh. There was a time when it was one of the few shows I could watch because we couldn't afford anything but bunny-ear TV.
"The Hyperscan was behind the curve in lots of ways, but when it came to LOOT BOXES, BOY, WAS IT AHEAD OF THE CURVE!"
-Shane from Rerez
“Appa format” was an upsettingly good joke
I remember the AVGN episode covering it. I also remember Guru Larry’s Fact Hunt covering it once and it being pointed out that it could’ve worked if it was like an add-on to a pre-existing console.
True like skylanders,that was really popular.
@@KidGreeD14 or like Amiibo and amiibo cards
Anything with cards or something to scan was so cool as a kid, still waiting for real life duel discs
When it's valentine's day and Billiam comes in with the old 2000's nostalgia:
Is for me? 👉👈😳😳
I think you should talk about Lightseekers. A collectible card game that came out at the end of Toys R Us’s life and basically disappeared. You helped save Bakugan. Help Lightseekers
This seems like Amiibo as cards in kinda worse lol
Saw this and immediately thought of Scanners and then it got a half second blip in here. Scanners deserves a video if it doesn't have one already. That was my jam.
Legit didn't remember this was a thing until you showed the part of the commercial where the boys were merged together
I remember having one of these, I had those Xmen and weird intergalactic wrestling cards with it and thought it was going to be the greatest thing ever. Then I actually played it and realized the loading screens take 50 hours to load, stats increased on character cards at a snail's pace, and it was all just the same game over and over and over again.
I still have this thing sitting in a drawer collecting dust and haven't touched it since the year I bought it.
It's seems like Skylanders but if ljn had a say so and everything went to crap.
My uncle is the scientist guy with glasses in the hyperscan commercial. I didn’t even know he was in this commercial till you featured it in this video lmao.
Ideas for sometime in the future:
Monster Buster Club
Martin Mystery
Code Lyoko
Here to support Code Lyoko!
In concept, you're absolutely right that the Hyperscan was great for the time. The problem is that they didn't capitalize on the whole concept well enough, as well as cheaping out on the hardware. If I could remake this, it would be pretty simple - start by using a faster ROM drive, and if it doesn't load fast enough, use cartridges or game cards, to keep the theme going (if it's good enough for the PC-Engine/TurboGrafx, it's good enough for me). Then get a better, stable RFID unit, and again, make sure it can load quickly - I'm thinking it'll need additional RAM. Now, of course, this already puts it out of the "budget" range they were going for. As you mentioned, the whole thing cost $70, with a pack-in game, and the games were 1/3 the cost of "regular" games; so expectations have to be at about 1/3 what you'd get from a SNES or PS1. Then, I would have put together a rudimentary TCG, to give the cards some value outside of the games, rather than tying them explicitly to the hardware and the hardware to them. That way, if the system fails, the cards can still have value, and if the cards fail, the system has value. But then again, I would have approached it from the mindset of creating two "good" products to create something cool, rather than creating something cool that amounts to being two crap products.
I might have also looked into making the Hyperscan more portable, so that said TCG could incorporate the hardware - say, a Wolverine who was leveled in the X-Men game might be more powerful than a stock Spider-Man, that sort of thing.
I've heard that these things are so badly manufactured that they have a 50 percentish fail rate.
About 50% on a given attempted scan, 100% over time as the scanner WILL eventually stop working.
I have one somewhere. It's far lighter than it should be. The componenta are extremely cheap.
@@OtakuUnitedStudioyes. Rerez systems failed
Anybody remember B-Daman? That was a cool thing that happened for a hot minute, and I still remember that cat thing teaching Naruto and Sasuke how to draw a circle and a triangle simultaneously.
Vaguely. I think I was given one of the toys.
Suggestion: robot bugs from the early 2010s called hex bugs.
I remember I had these windup hex bugs that were from a happy meal
Those were cool!
I didn't remember this at all until I saw the part of the commercial where the two kids were merged. That's all I remember of this thing.
You should look into reviewing Magnetix they were basically LEGOS but with Magnets!
They're actually still around under a different name now. They've been redesigned, though, since a number of kids managed to get the magnets out and swallow them.
Honestly I would love to see this redone . Kinda like those japanese arcade machines that use medals and cards on a field
6:49 the term "daddy long-legs" refers to several different animals, one of which actually *is* a spider
And a fatherly maned wolf?
:D
Oh my god when you asked for ideas you brought something back from my hind brain, please do the OG LeapPad by LeapFrog! I loved mine as a kid and just thinking about it brings back so many good memories.
Commenting to ask once again for Billiam to review the second He-man reboot in the 2000's
This is perfect for Billiam! Whenever he uploads the little "billy!" from adventure time plays in my head.
You know what makes me laugh? I can almost guarantee that, just like the infamous GameCom, playing Hyperscan games through a solid emulator (when one eventually exists) would be a vastly preferable experience to using the actual hardware.
meanwhile in Japan they had arcade machines that scan trading cards for you to play them, like Mobile Suit Gundam for example.
Rest In Peace Gundam Card Builder
That controller is an eyesore, who thought that was a good idea
Just wanna say I just found out your channel and I gotta say, your videos give me this warm feeling of nostalgia. I love it.
I like the genre of Nick Extreme Sports being listed as "presumably, sports". That's humorous coming from the rigidly professional Wikipedia.
I watched a lot of great personalities make great content for the majority of my life but sometimes a creator stands out. I don't know how to describe it (my english is mediocre) but every time I find one of those creators they casualy begin to talk and it seems to me that they just couldnt do it any other way. As if they found their inner truth and put it on display in their videos.
Im getting emotional thinking about it. Its just beautiful.
Thank you Billiam
Can you make a video on the PS1 game “Unholy War”. Think it’d be right up your alley for how ‘WEIRD’ it was. Interesting characters to say the least.
A suggestion for a future review: Class of 3000. It used to be on Cartoon Network in the early 2000s, and I think it would make for a pretty good nostalgic review
My friend had one as a kid, and I remember playing the Ben 10 game for a short period. His mom was a gold digger and had tons of money to throw at it, and we still didn't care about it after a short while. Couldn't have been more than 10 years old and we still knew it was rough. XD
I absolutely love the longer hair in this video. And a great weird childhood topic once again lol.
Props for not using the "pizza time" sound bite on the apider man part
10:49
I like how "Nick extreme sports" is presumably sports
What else would it be a FPS?
This is so sad, I remember watching commercials for this as a kid and it blowing my god damn mind. I bet I would have still enjoyed it when I got it but I would have known deep down it was a low budget toy. Thank you so much for rediscovering this
I was part of the overnight stocking logistics crew at a-then brand new Super Target store. The Toys section was one of my main areas at the time. I remember when it first showed up because it looked liked something that should be in electronics or in the R/C aisle, but, it was with the main action figures. I scanned it over (no pun intended) and immediately just kind of shook my head because it looked like something from my childhood (born in 1984) when gimmicky game toys actually had a market alongside The Nintendo. I don't need to remind any of y'all how the game market was then in the 00s.
A month later it already had "Clearance" stickers on it! I figured it wouldn't last, but, I was still shocked as to just how quickly it was bombing! I think they were all gone before the next month!
Catch is, I'm pretty sure no one bought them and they got sent to the backroom to make space for new products that people will actually *buy*.
I knew he was going to put a daddy long legs on screen but I still threw my phone lmao
Ooh baby, Custom Robo ad clips! 🤩
Favorite GC game of all time, w/Tales of Symphonia in super close 2nd.
this video is a man losing his mind to an ancient relic from the distant past...so basically billiam is now an anime character
I remember seeing this at a convention years ago. It was called Gencon, pretty the big convention area for card games. You want to demon a card game or a board game, you go there. I don't remember too well, I thought it was fun, but when it came out I didn't get it and just passed it. The only game they had was X-Men.
Definitely expected when you kept saying "curiosity" it was gonna lead into a CuriosityStream ad
The controller lag and the scan time make me think a unique type of turn based RPG using an active time battle style system, would have worked well on this. Like the game would just be some generic fantasy or sci fi thing, no need to go bonkers with the story, but the gameplay would be the main draw. The game comes with all the cards you need, no need for booster packs. You have 2 potion cards, each of which gives you one extra potion per battle, as well as a character swap card, which lets you swap out one character in your party per battle without having to use a turn, and a megaheal card, which restores all your party's health and magic, but can only be used once per BOSS battle. The time limits would work together with the amount of time it takes to scan a card, so you have to think fast. This dude's got a big health bar, and you have 30 seconds until his next attack, do you want to heal up your party, or try swapping out in hopes one of your other members has the stats needed to turn the tables? You only have enough time for one. Fumbling with the cards would add an extra layer of panic for new players, more experienced players could organize them for easier access.
I'm so grateful that modern medicine was advanced enough to eliminate your cancer back when you were going through all of that man.
Idk what i'd do without your videos.
I don't mean to bring up bad memories I'm just saying i'm very thankful you're happy and healthy.
Wait, what? Gosh, that's.. That's absolutely awful, I'm so sorry.
Y'all remember zhu-Zhu pets? Those mechanical hamsters that were impossible to find during one Christmas season, but were later overproduced and sat unsold on store shelves? .... cuz I do... I had butterball
Yeah, why would I get a PS3 and play, Skyrim, or GTA V
When I could get a HyperScan and play Sam Raimi’s Pizza Time Meme the Video Game
and buy 40 cards bankrupting my parents :)
K I will say, I have one of these, and played it a lot as a kid, mainly ben 10, and that transformation is not supposed to have that cacophony of sounds. The buzzer sound is supposed to play when a scan fails for some reason, so either your scanner is jank or the cards are messed up somehow.
You've heard of "NES on a chip" well this has the SNES equivalent at the core, so there's potential to turn that thing into a worthwhile game console. Mattel must have used some expensive cardboard in those packs.
It would probably be a short episode but maybe Nano Fighters. They were wrestling/fighter v-pets released during a high point in both v-pets & the WWF popularity. I remember a bunch of kids at my school getting them when they came out. They seem to be adaptions of a Japanese K-1 Grand Prix v-pet that licensed actual martial artists, though only one of the "pets" appears to be the same & the American version doesn't use the persons name.
This "console" is such a blatant money-grubbing attempt it's painful
I feel like they really tried to do something interesting with the combination of two different markets. But the execution of the games themselves were so poorly done, and could've been a lot better if they were given more development time and not rushed to market.
@@TheNucaKola I wish as a kid I wasn't so easy persuade to buy this thing. Imm pretty sure it was money grab. I mean look at specs,they could've easily made this console as powerful as a ps1 or 2.
Fun fact depending on what part of the USA you're from, a daddy long leg can refer to the opiliones pictured in the video (also known as harvestmans) , a common cellar spider, or a mosquito hawk. Depending on where you are, each of these are considered "daddy long legs" in their respective areas.
My parents got me pack of the hyperscan cards once but I never had the console
I did own a Hyperscan growing up. I thought it looked super cool and awesome. I will admit I spent *way* too many hours in the different training modes trying to maximize the stats of the characters I had (I bought a booster pack with my console too so I had Wolverine, Lady Deathstroke, the Blob, and IDR who was my second but I remember we had 4 characters). It was, like you said, a cool gimick but ultimately a flop.
I would like to see this idea re-visited with an actual attempt made to make it work and not this low-budget trash.
Thanks for the memories though! :D
“Are they worried I’m going to run out and sell it? Sell it to who?” Is an underrated joke from this video lmao.
The robots displayed in the back, great!
As a kid that grew up on Genesis, SNES and PSX i remember saying:
*"This looks like shit."*
this video really feels like AVGN, but with sweet billiam narrating. very wholesome!
You seemed to have suffered a lot on this one, so lemme comment and help boost your analytics. It's not much, but it's all I can do.
I had a hyper scan and had the X-man game for it. I remember having fun with it for about a day and never using it again lol
please PLEASE do a movie star planet episode i’m begging you-
i had a mmbn progress PET, collectable chips, single player rpg mode, pvp, tournaments, and even physical add-ons that affected stats.
i wish it took off, but im just sitting here with two PETs, all add-ons, and every chip i could find, for when my friends want to try it some day
The Hyper SCAM.
Diaperscam
My recommendation for old not-great electronic toys would be the R-Zone. There were two version - a headset similar to a DBZ Scouter (but far less cool) and a handheld.
It worked by inserting LCD screens into the console which were then reflected off a clear shiny plastic surface. They were also backlit in red, much like the Virtual Boy but far worse.
Despite using a then-ancient segmented LCD technology, the games actually weren't terrible. There were multiple Star Wars games, including a Death Star trench run (decent) and lightsaber fighting game (less good but not bad).
The Hyper Scan is like a sneeze, it hurts
Nah most sneezes are satisfying though! The hyper scan is more like one of those disgusting sneezes you do when you’re sick and your snot comes glooping out all over your hands... you expect it to be satisfying when you feel the sneeze coming but then you’re proven wrong by just how awful it is when the sneeze actually happens
That APA joke was really funny and it should be talked about more
This system has lived rent free in my head for yearsssss
I remember seeing these in the clearance bins at Toys'R'us,around 2007. I never picked one up or knew anybody that owned one but it's a weird relic of the 2000's I guess.
Good to know that the one thing that can stop the Juggernaut... is the leg sweep
I didn't know the hyperscan released alongside the Wii and PS3, now that's sad.
Yo idk why but i end up watching you when I'm fucked up. Thanks for making these vids man. Your shit is so pleasant to watch.
"MLA or APPA format"
Had me rolling
This is basically a console that revolves around on-disk DLC. My nightmare, and everyone else's.
The Monster Rancher game series would be right up your alley,with the gimmick of putting random discs in the PS1 to get random monsters.
This was one of those weird products that I missed. Thank you for sharing about it. Definitely an interesting concept back in the day.
So... I know you've done Scannerz but you never mentioned Scan Command in your video. Scan Command was a video game where you raised dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and used DNA (that you got from scanning barcodes and uploading to the game) to improve their stats. You'd then duke them out to the death. Fun game and it was super hard to find a copy in the UK, but I managed! It was in tandem with Jurassic Park 3's release. Would love to see your thoughts.
I’m glad I got to see someone do the hyperscan Spider-Man game since the AVGN’s review of it
I literally screamed Billiam! when I saw you uploaded.
I also heard that the Hyperscan itself was very brittle and many people who got one ended up having it break in about a week or two. It also had a USB port on it that seemed to serve no purpose because none of the accessories with it could plug into the USB. More points against it.