25 WORST Product Flops You Might Remember
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- If you had to name the worst product flops ever, what would they be? Would they be beauty products? Maybe something for the home, your car, your person? There have been many products out in the market, but not all of them were successful. Check out the 25 worst products flops you might remember.
Have you ever seen these late-night infomercials and thought to yourself “who would buy that?”. Well, you’re not the only one. Companies and inventors have come up with some bizarre products that for whatever reason consumers didn’t quite appreciate. And it’s not just in infomercials, major companies like soft drink and fast food companies have come up with products that may sound good on paper, but in practice tanked miserably. Check out the worst product flops ever (and our photo credits and sources) and let us know in the comments below if you would buy these products:
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Have you heard of Orbitz soda? Don’t be surprised if you haven’t because it was a major flop and was quickly taken off the market. The same goes for “Pepsi A.M.”, McDonald’s Arch Deluxe, and the Coors Rocky Mountain Spring Water. But it’s not just food items that flopped, there’s also things like the Sony Betamax (remember that?), HD-DVD, The Nook, and more! Check out the 25 worst product flops you might remember.
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I'm actually kind of sad the Fuel band didn't do well. - Juan
list25 , where's Google Glass?? It flopped badly..
list25 i was 5 in 1999
I actually played the Nintendo Virtuaboy at the local Toys'R'Us every time my family would go. While they walked around shopping for gifts for my cousins, I would stand there playing until they came and collected me
Have a hair cut and dress amart .
I'm kinda sad the Microsoft Band didn't pan out. ~Mike
You need more pictures of the actual products, not just the logo of the company that made said product.
True that
Lol...right
You are absolutely right.
You saved me from watching the video
So freaking weird with out them.Video lost on its quality alot because of it!
Firefox OS for smartphones. The flop most people never knew existed.
It's unfair to brand Betamax as a 'flop'. It wasn't, it was very popular. It's just it ultimately lost out to VHS.
I liked my Zune. I don't like iTunes so my Zune allowed me to manage my music easily with my Windows PC
I loved Zune. It's interface and easy music management was so dope. It's interface was damn near the same as the windows phone. I absolutely preferred it over ipods.
What I didn't like about the Zune was that it used a 2.5 mm earphone jack instead of 3.5. All of the aftermarket headsets were 3.5
I still have one and use it all the time. It's the 120GB model. I use it as opposed to my Note9, since any text or call interrupts the music.
lostagain how do you make it work I can’t make mine work
They were still on the market early on in the war in Iraq/Afghanistan. The hard drive in the Zune's made them far sturdier than the electronic components in iPads. Zunes could withstand a literal maelstrom of chaos and make it back home in one piece. It was also far easier to store pictures and videos. Unfortunately, those qualities weren't nearly as important to the rest of the market at the time.
In 500 BC, I was negative 2480
... but more importantly, here's a tiny image of something we know nothing about...
I was negative 2899 years old
@@madbear3512 so you aren't born for another 380 years from now?
@@tr1pman
Jesus Christ I should really learn how to do meth I mean I be -1599
@@madbear3512 well, start with a lightbulb, and work it out in lines from there 👍🏻
reverse oreos, icing on the outside with a single layer or cookie sandwiched in the middle,....that's what we nedx.
Chris White have you had Oreo Mega Stuf?
double stuff?
A coffee cream Orea ... mmmmmmmm
They've done that, they were really good.
Hello “Hydrox”?
Pepsi AM: because no one wanted a carbonated soda drink in the morning.. tell that to RedBull, Monster and Mountain Dew.
Also smokeless cigarettes, obviously first edition vapes. Nooks are still selling at Barnes and Noble... etc...
I get the point, but the script was mostly just him making an age joke over and over again, and making unsupported statements.
I used to have a can of Moubtain Dew in the morning when I was younger.
I think it's more that people didn't want a COLA product in the morning.
It wasnt much more caffeine than regular.
@@hammerslammer3006 the comparison of caffiene is irrelevant. I know plenty of people who drink Pepsi or diet coke or even Dr Pepper in the morning for their caffiene kick.
@@chelsead251
I do myself as well. Wonder what happened? Maybe just bad timing?
I was born in 1983 one of my earliest memories was my dad setting up my Atari and me sitting on the living room floor playing🤪
One of the big killers for HD DVD was Disney being one of the first to choose the Blue Ray format.
Nope... The killer of the HD DVD format was the fact that Sony "gave away" one of the highest quality BluRay players available (at the time) with every PS3 purchase.
HD-DVD (Toshiba) just couldn't keep up b/c no one owned their hardware.
It didn’t matter much technology quickly move Don that you didn’t need those players anymore
@@pastorofmuppets325
Actually, I was very impressed to have a DVD player that also plays some quite good video games, as with my Sony PS2. The PS2 came with no DVD remote, that was sold separately, but as they should have done, all the DVD functions could also be controlled via the game controller. It didn't take long to memory which buttons did what. Due to the remotes being sold separately, it turned out to be very cheap to replace a damaged remote. However, I still do not have a PS3 nor PS4, as whatever happened to the video games? Where are the fun and whimsical games? The video game market has moved too much towards serious gamers and left us older amateurs behind. TVs recently have seriously shortchanged us in the very limited number of ports to connect things, and so why waste valuable space on a DVD player that yawn, only plays DVDs?
So now I have around a half dozen bluray discs and nothing to play them upon. My first Macintosh could play CDs, as I had no other CD player at the time. Of course now, I can also watch DVDs on my getting-old-again 4th Macintosh.
I missed the green ketchup...
Don’t forget Pepsi Blue
God that was horrible stuff
I remember that stuff! My parents went to a concert and the stadium was getting rid of it so my dad backed his truck up to the concession stand and they filled his truck bed. I drank so much of it I puked neon blue sludge.
I had just become an assistant manager at EB Games (now known as GameStop) when N-Gage came out. We were told to push it, and our store was shipped 1,000 of these. We were told it was going to be the next big thing and fun fact that EB Games didn't invest in the initial release of the 1st Nintendo system because they thought it would be a flop. Because they were wrong about Nintendo, they jumped on the N-Gage, so they didn't make the same mistake. I told my GM, "No one is going to buy this shit. It's $300 dollars, and you have to turn it off and remove the battery just to change games." He told me that I didn't know what I was talking about. Out of the 1,000, we sold one and the person who bought returned. The GM was let go a few months later, and my manager got his own store, and I got that one. I love it when I'm right! 😂😂😂 The N-Gage was a POS
1986 I was making the oxen on Oregon Trail moonwalk on my lunch break 😂😂😂
Too funny
Those where the good old days.
Loved that game!
Played that game just last week on classicreload.com/oregon-trail.html
They sell a handheld portable version of that game in walmart in the children's toys. It is pretty neat.
Anyone remember the psp go?
Ye
What a joke!
The Gamecomm was way worse lol
kingded always wanted one
kingded marcus psp
I remember the purple Heinz ketchup very vividly. I remember it tasting pretty weird, probably due to the mass amounts of food colouring.f
Jeremy Smith it tasted like reg ketchup there was green blue and purple all it was, food color
Kudos on keeping each item short and simple. No fluff makes for watchable material.
I remember that McDonald's had pictures of sad children promoting the idea of an "adult" hamburger. I ate it, I got sick. New Coke may have been trying to boost sales in Coca-Cola, but when New Coke was coming out and the "Cola Wars" was hot and heavy, a lot of companies started adding high fructose corn syrup to their recipes, and eventually Coca-Cola Classic is now branded as Coca-Cola Original Taste.
The reason HD lost to Blue ray was not the PS3, but rather because the huge Porn industry went 100% to Blue ray.
Tropic thunder
bob wallace Why the hell does everybody think the porn industry influenced that war? Nobody was buying porn back then so how the hell would they have influenced the war? Makes zero sense.
I dont know about blue ray, but the VHS vs Beta is said to have been highly influenced by the porn industry. Many were buying porn then.
Will Hostens I'm sure that war might have been, but the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD war wasn't. It's a fact, pretty much, that nobody buys porn anymore. Even ten years ago, nobody was buying it.
I wouldn't call BR a success, not just because "unlicensed" downloads and streaming became widely used. DVDs had to be replaced because of broken encryption, higher capacities would have made new types incompatible anyways, and the prices of drives were too low to justify further development. A completely seperate market with high prices and customer lock-in was the plan, but BR could not expel the predecessors from the market. DVDs and CDs are still around, because they are good enough for many uses. For my part, I have no BR at home and probably never will, especially because BR recorders are insanely expensive. The industry cartel seems to have made standalone DVD recorders disappear. Who cares...
Blu-ray just sounds slick. HDDVD is literally a tongue twister. It may be only five letters versus six for Blu-ray, but it's five syllables long.
That actually makes all the difference when you think of how a product needs to be marketed. Sometimes an announcer, on TV or in the cinema, needs to say the format the new movie is being released on. "Now available on DVD and Blu-Ray" flows. "Now available on DVD and HDDVD" just sounds ridiculous.
I loved my N-gage QD, it was amazing for its time including the design, only con was that it was ahead of its time when mobile gaming wasn't right up there. Sadly my phone got stolen.
Agree with you.. i loved my Ngage QD too, had games like NFS and Fifa used to play with some friends via Bluetooth..
Amit Jadhav: haha same here and I loved my phone, nostalgic moments !!
Same here I’ve still got mine and it still works. Let’s see an iPhone last as long.
Iphone do last but Ngage QD was just awesome.. but Ngage was not as successful it was bigger and looked out of style so i guess Nokia came with an upgraded QD in that segment.. it was pure bliss for gamers..
LOL, when I heard N-gage I thought it was an electric train set.
1 OF THESE DAYS I REALLY HOPE TO SEE YOU TALK ABOUT THE “SONY” “PLAYSTATION PHONE”
tbh I'd pry have a Pepsi AM every morning. I for one want a soda I can drink in the morning
Where's the Arch Deluxe? Videos like this should have the material as the forefront and not the narrator's face.
Zero Kazama 2.0
Yeah. I have absolutely no idea what it was
How can you add a picture of something that would have rotted away 10 years ago? Maybe there aren't any images of this thing out here on the internet.
I still own a working Sony Betamax VCR. My parents own a vast collection of classic movies, concerts and operas on Betamax tapes. Not worth the effort to copy into different formats. Being an engineering student in the 80s, I learned to service and repair the device (by necessity), which was great hands-on experience at that time.
I don't think E.T. was that bad of a game considering that the development team was given only 6 weeks by Atari. E.T. is by no means a great game, but I'd be fair and say it was a good one. BTW, I'll save the math, I was born in 1966. B-)
#3 NOT true. A neighbor had a Virtual Boy and it was amazing. Yeah everything you saw was red, but it was still way cool.
1. You didn't miss anything with that Zune. My sister had one, and they were extremely vulnerable to viruses.
2. That Virtual boy made me physically ill. The red graphics were retina-searing. I still can't look at it without becoming nauseated.
3. ET the Extraterrestrial actually was not a bad game. The crash was caused by a growing distaste for the Atari's lack of regulation, and other games that were extremely violent (they were better able to see that than me, I admit.) The ET game was just the one that took the fall. It actually destroyed the creator's career.
Why does he keep reminding us of his age? Is this Logan’s Run?
I had a girlfriend in the middle '60s who drank Pepsi for breakfast every day. And when New Coke came out, I simply boycotted all Coke products until they brought the Real Thing back.
I also loved the Arch Deluxe.
I loved the ET Video game ... I only learned years later that people didn't like it 🤷🏻♂️
The vast majority of these are more than likely just American, so this should be 25 WORST flops in the US that you might remember. In Australia i heard of about 5 things.
I love my zune!
Zune was a much better product at the time. My favorite part about it was my daughter could upload music to the pc of a friend without having to completely wipe her device if they didn't have exactly the same program that the device was set up with. No content jail. Good times.
I wouldn't really say zune flopped. It was just no where near as popular as the iPod.
The Zune was definitely a better music player. I was so sad when my second one died and I made the switch to iPod. Even years later, every time I
want to change music on my iPod it takes multiple tries to get the music I want on it, or just doesn’t update my music at all when iTunes says it did. And each time, I miss the simplicity of dragging music to the playlist for the Zune and the fact that I could do it once and trust it 😔
(Edited because the stupid new iOS changes “ I “ to “ I️ “ if you don’t catch it while you type)
Barbara Schulz I miss the Zune
Shocktroop I still have mine. Plays like it did on day one!
Not surprised that most 90's products 'Sucked' the whole decade 'Sucked'
I can think of another failure, although it was a video game, it is still a product, that being Final Fantasy XIV Online. The original Final Fantasy XIV was released on September 30th, 2010, and was immediately disliked by most players (but maintained a small, but fiercely loyal player base) for multiple reasons, such as;
1. Performance issues
2. A stamina system that prevented meaningful grinding (a baffling system for an MMO to have)
3. Rather convoluted crafting
4. Somewhat dissatisfying combat.
5. A simple vase having more polygons than the player models.
The game got lambasted in reviews, and eventually a new team was brought in to try fix the game, led by then Dragon Quest director, Naoki Yoshida. They were unable to fix the game however, but kept it going while they secretly worked on what was basically a completely revamped remake of the game. The way they kept the disastrous game going wasn't simple maintenance mode though, they had a vision on how to at least make it enjoyable for those still playing, adding in hints that something big was coming, mainly with a red "star" in the sky gradually getting larger with every update. Then on November 11th, 2012, the servers were taken down for good as the 7th Umbral Calamity was unleashed.
There is a happy ending to this though, on August 27th, 2013, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn was released, a completely new game, but unlike what is now referred to as "Final Fantasy XIV 1.0", A Realm Reborn went on to critical acclaim, and is now one of the top MMOs out there, with it's next expansion, Dawntrail set to release in the Summer (Northern Hemisphere)/Winter (Southern Hemisphere) of 2024.
1.0 is not forgotten by the players or development team though, as the anniversary event known as The Rising is also an in-lore event to honour those lost to the 7th Umbral Calamity as well as celebrating the nation of Eorzea's revival from said disaster.
It was probably the fact that 100,000,000 iPods were already sold and the fact people wanted to be hip purchasing one, but I never really liked the original ipod, I tried one and I thought they were extremely non user friendly vs Microsoft products where you could just grab and drag your mp3s into the attached drive.
he missed a chance with the wow chips, "high flying sales belly flopped", should have said that the "sales went down the toilet"!!
LOL
This video came out in 2019, I was -5 years old
The worst product flop I've ever heard of was a different ketchup--Hunt's pizza flavored ketchup, which was introduced around the beginning of 1965. The product was a flop from the start, but one of the Hunt's executives was convinced that it just needed more time, so they kept pushing it. Finally, in the summer of that year, came the notorious riots in the Watts neighborhood of L.A. The riots devastated the community, with the rioters burning whole blocks and looting everything lootable. All except one thing--in supermarkets that were otherwise stripped completely bare, the pizza-flavored ketchup was left untouched. This finally convinced Hunt's to kill the product.
Finally, a video in which the narrator tells me how old he was whenever a year is mentioned. Because that's something I really want to know...
If you don't remember when this stuff came out, you're clearly not old enough, son.
😂😂😂
I really like that he told his age. It's fun!
Fun?! It's irrelevant as far as I'm concerned, unless you happen to be the same age as he is (and even then...).
Crashburn 32 thank you 👍🏾
Had the original Nook and traded it for the Nook Color. If the browser had been better, I'd still be using it. I use my Ipad daily, but it's hard to beat the Nook for reading. No glare, and the contrast is better. It really was a good device for its intended use--reading.
I loved my Nook
Coors Rocy Mountain Spring Water. Clearly they just rebranded their regular beer.
lol
That is a very good one.
LOL
Like their beer then. It’s undrinakbly sweet.
Hahaha
I still own a betamax player..my first videos i brougt was santa clause the movie then ghostbusters 👌 still works 😀
My father had a collection of 13 of the 1957 Edsel. I took my drivers test on one.
The Zune was technically superior to the iPod at the time. It had a feature where you could share music wirelessly between devices. It was the first unlimited subscription service. The software didn’t force you to copy files into its format like apple, thus taking up double the space on your computer. Zune was the best.
Yes! And, if the hard drive broke, it could be easily replaced, with just a little work. My son was 15 or so when he started replacing our broken hard drives. (Before solid state hard drives)
So was Betamax. It’s still used in movie production.
I had a Zune that was hacked and had a 120 gig hd, I had SO MANY pirate bay albums on it, sadly now it's a brick
My nephew had one and he liked it. It was cheaper than the iPod and he said it worked just as well
Agreed
Another huge flop?
The Pontiac Aztek
Deadbäss horrible vehicle 🤮
Yup and now those suckers are collectors items go figure
@@castlewhore2007 And weirdly enough cars are starting to look like it
Deadbäss that’s true
A guy in my small town has three Azteks parked in front of his house. I keep meaning to take a picture.
I had a zune, that thing was awesome! Build quality was bulletproof, it was easy to use, had a nice big screen, and my favorite - you could wirelessly share your music to other people's zunes. It worked like nfc where the zunes had to be in close contact. The marketplace had all kinds of music you couldn't find anywhere else too. The zune social was kind of weird though, in an era where Myspace was dying. Zune software was also more user friendly than iTunes and integrated with smartphones better once they came along. I got lucky because a lot of people I knew and were friends with had zunes so we all got the chance to use them to their full potential.
Quick question for Al Borland. Is Tool Time still on the air?
Elik Anoa'i Haha Haha. He does look like him!
Lmfao
hahahahahaha ... i really thought he looked familiar
I don't think so, Tim.
I thought it was him at first.. did a double take
I used to have an Atari 2600. I loved it. I also had the E.T. game, too bad was a flop. Now the game is a collectors item. Go figure.
I had one, too, and I remember there were a lot crappy-looking games around at the time. ET was just a symbol for all the crap that was around, and there were better, higher-res games to be found at the arcades by then. I think the home consoles just hadn't kept up until the NES hit the market.
Yeah: most of them were buried out in a desert.
Coleco tried to compete with the Atari 2600 by making a similar game system called Gemini
Kills me when people say E.T. is what caused Atari to crash and burn. Thats not the case. Yeah it's not a great game but the video game market was already on a downfall. E.T. happened to be a game that Howard Warshaw was forced to make in 5 weeks to be released at Christmas. The NES breathed new life into gaming, but to say E.T. killed Atari is very uneducated. Not saying that in an insulting way. Some people just go by the urban myth. People should watch Atari: Game Over. Great documentary which gives you the story of Atari, its end, and finally sheds light on the E.T. desert burial. It wasn't just E.T. games that was diacarded by Atari. It was tons of stuff in a warehouse and as all trash in the area....was taken to a landfill.
The Edsel was a car brand in itself, it was not a model of Ford. Ford Motor Company made Ford, Edsel, Mercury and Lincoln. It isn't a Ford Lincoln Continental, it's a Lincoln Continental.
Yeah but Ford as the owning company made the decisions and marketed it. I don't recall if the video claimed it was a "Ford car"? (I'm certainly not going to kill more brain cells going back and watching it again)
Right. And Edsel was named after his son who died young, I believe. Ford just could not let it go without a proper effort.
LOVED the video! Interesting, informative, concise and to the point. And HOW 'BOUT THAT no screaming, pounding "music" to drown out what you were talking about! I just love it when people don't think they need unnecessary noises and images in their presentations to keep my attention.
My grandpa still owns a betamax player with a bunch of good movies from the 80s and it's still hooked up to an old TV that we would all have thrown out 30 years ago. I still own a virtual boy that I bought in 1997 at Walmart for $39.99. They almost had to give them away to get rid of them.
I had a Microsoft Zune in middle school no clue where it’s at now
I love how Coke still insists New Coke tasted better than Classic. That was *not* the experience I had.
A truck set up outside of the local pool, and offered free samples in little paper cups. My friends and I were actually pretty excited. We stood in line and grabbed our sample. We even made a toast. Then we tasted it. It was like flat Pepsi at best. We thought maybe we got a cup from a 2-liter that had been opened for awhile, so we bought a can. Nope! Still the same sticky mess. It re-affirmed my love for Dr. Pepper.
I got addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper in 1976 for about 6 years.
New coke tasted like RC cola, it was 99 cents a 2 liter just like RC. Classic was double the price. I liked new coke, but Classic was way better
@Bishop Dong Magic Shlong, I'll soon be 66 years old. I suspect that might be the reason our Boomer generation turned out the way we did, what with the "Summer of Love", and all that... We were all drugged by our Mothers on Coke in our formative years. I guess that makes sense by the fact that the narcotic compound was created by a pharmacist, John Pemberton. We had a Coke machine in the hallway outside of my second grade classroom. Our whole school lined up with their nickles when the bell rang for recess.
New coke was gross. I actually switched to pepsi (was a kid then) or my family did because of that. We went back to coke once classic came back
Agreed. New Coke did not taste better than the Classic.
Don't forget the Atari 5200, which I ended up being a sucker for. Only had about 6 games available (although the quality easily surpassed anything offered for the 2600), and the controller's membrane buttons would stick or just not work, and replacements were expensive. It could've been something amazing, but wasn't.
i have a 1989 original game boy in fantastic condition still works like new ,
Fernando 007 I still have my game boy sp that I bought in 2003 when I was 13. Still works like new because I always took good care of it and now my son plays it almost every day. I have Pokémon sapphire and a namco museum game that has galaga, pac man, dig dug and space invaders. I love the fact that he enjoys playing the same games I played 15 years ago.
I have a 1998 original penis in fantastic condition still works like new,
I went through 10 game boys; if those “terminators” ever show up, I’ll have them quaking in their boots
!
cheetos lip balm-that's so gross. I was born in 1953.
I was born in 300BC
I would rather have lip balm that is peppermint flavored.
I remember my mom having 4 bottles of Orbitz n never opened em. She used em as decor in our small 2 bedroom apartment lol. I was like 5 or 6 years old.
That is awesome!
Bad ass!
The atari was amazing . I still have 3 in the loft.
I actually loved pacman , never played ET but defender and combat wars kept me entertained indefinitely . Dont get me started on space invaders
I'm a generation older - 35 when you were minus 1 - so I can remember quadraphonic sound, nehru jackets, the McDLT, zip drives, laser disks, and smell-o-vision (aka Aroma-rama). Most of these died either because they were too expensive or the technology that birthed them was evolving too rapidly. Except for nehru jackets. They were just dumb. McDLT was phased out because of excessive packaging waste.
I do not miss green ketchup. I bought a bottle of that stuff and it's true that looks are a large part of what makes food attractive and that stuff just made food look like it was covered in duck shit.
I had the green ketchup at a friend's house once and I felt like the texture of it was just off. I wonder what they had to do it to make it green because anyone who works with color knows that red and green neutralize each other. So I am sure the green was really some sort of science project.
I have an uncle that loves to experriment in the kitchen.
while sometime painfull, he often comes up with weird combination
the most ridicolous he made was a (chives based) green mayo. delicious tho...
I loved green ketchup but your comment made my day
@@serPomiz
Hmm, white-mayonnaise seems kinds of gross. Oh wait, green is supposed to be gross? I imagine your uncle's mayonnaise was probably better? Anyway, are food colorings even safe? Shouldn't food simply be the color that it is already? I never try to control the color, but when I mix stuff together, I let it be the natural color that it is already.
mayo is supposed to be pale yellow, as the main source of color in it are the eggs; in the same vein, some ingredientscompletelly changes the color of some food, which mate it look unappealing (look, for example, to any broccoli based recipe when using the purple variety, it comes out more like a pre-schooler drawing). on the other hand, some food colorings are simple stuff like carrot juice
There was a kid in my high school that got sent home for bringing a bottle of Coors water to class.
Haha i can see school doing that crap.
I had ET on the 2600. It was bad, but 8 year old me was happy to have an Atari.
I still have the cartridge, no console to play it on though
Yes E.T. was bad but i think Pac-Man Was horrible also but I played it a lot!
7:00 Wrong. Betamax died because Sony failed to understand how a "normal TV user" would use a video recorder. The major error was that they were thinking 1 hour of recording time is enough. And to add salt to the wound, Sony refused to let anyone else manufacture the format. The competing VHS was licensed to anyone interested and the cassette was big enough to hold 4 hours of tape. And, since "normal TV user" wanted to timeshift TV programs, 4 hour recording time was much better for that purpose than 1 hour. See video of Technology Connections about the topic.
Anyone remember Clear Coke or Crystal Pepsi? Yuck!
How about Pepsi Free? Ironic name as you infer there is no Pepsi as in Sugar free, salt free or worse that Free means no cost.
I used to have a Nokia N-Gage, it “was” a good phone, I could play Tony Hawk on it.
@Potwheelz Lol I had the NGage and Ngage QD I thought it was cool!
The day New Coke was out me and my dad tried it. The first thing I said that it tastes like flat Pepsi. 😂😂😂😲😨😎
Yep, thought it tastes like a bad Pepsi. I know ironic, as Pepsi tastes disgusting.
F both of you... I loved New Coke lol
That's because Coca Cola hired two Pepsi execs and their secret agenda was to sabotage their new employer. They exceeded far beyond their expectations. I haven't had a Coke or Pepsi since. Prefer Orange Crush soda.
Yes, I remember saying the same thing 😀
😂😂😂😂😂
I used to LOVE, LOVE ,LOVE the Orbit drink!!! I wish that they still made it.... Bad decision to pull the plug on it before really giving it a chance!!! I think many people loved it/ too and many others have never even heard of it. The was very little advertising for it and very limited exposure to the public! I’ve asked many of my friends and they had never heard of Orbit!!! I don’t know why but I had always thought it was called Orbiez! Maybe I am dreaming! Does anyone else remember it as a different name other than Orbit????
I was at the HP tablet business release convention in Toronto, was super excited for it.
We ended up buying a bunch of the tablets for $80 brand new with keyboards and accessories 2 weeks after launch, returning home and just replacing the OS with android.
I loved the Arch Deluxe! I was so bummed when they got rid of it.
Bring it back and trash the McRib. They never successfully reproduced it after the first time.
What did it taste like? I never ate it
@@noemistephanie93 It had peppered bacon and this Dijon mustard/mayo sauce on it that was yummy.
14. JVC gave licence to other brands to produce recorders while Sony kept the production to themselves. Result, many times more VHS recorders were on the marker than Betamax
The reason in the video is definitely wrong. I always heard the sort of urban legend that it was porn that tipped the scale and this made me check it out. You're right and while Sony did license out it was very restrictive. When the cost of the VHS players dropped to about $400 around '84ish making them an appliance rather than a luxury, the more superior Beta players were still at about $1k or more. The porn industry and video store shelves adapted to what customers wanted based on the machines they bought. Remember video stores being about half Beta and have VHS at a time, then the Beta section slowly shrinking until it was a small shelf.
In the UK, the number one selling video recorder in 1983 was the Sanyo VTC5000 (outselling every VHS machine), followed by the VTC5150 in 1984. Cost £249, so cheaper than most equivalent VHS machines. They were also very reliable. But let's not forget, domestic Beta moved on to professional Betacam, BetacamSP, Digital Betacam, HDCAM, whereas all VHS-based professional formats (MII for example) flopped. Professional Beta decks are still in use in studios around the world even today, and some still fetch serious money. Beta outlived VHS, and Sony made more money from Beta than anyone ever did from VHS. He who laughs last...
The best VHS machine ever produced was made by Mitsubishi. Exceptional video and audio on par with any Beta machine. But the price was out of this world. I … had a friend (yea that's it) that bought one new and it was still going strong after 14 years before I lost...he lost it in a move.
The biggest limiting factor of Beta was that the tapes were significantly shorter than VHS. It was impossible to put many full-length motion pictures on a single Beta cassette.
I had a Betamax and eventhough the had a converter that you could place the small tape into a VHS sized one was ingenious but it still never really took off. I was sad to see it go.
In 1989 I was 10, I liked the Arch Deluxe also!
I also agree I prefer when mike is in from of camera. I like his voice and makes it more fun. Boo that other guy lol
The Nook wasn't really a flop. It's still selling fantastically and they're still pushing out new iterations.
Why do you mention how old you were every time you mention a year?
It gets really weird after a while.
I think he thinks it's funny? 🤦♂️
It's cause he is egotistic as many of us are.
Egomaniac or whatever but I can't believe how F*cked up and damaged this guy is... I'm like 7 years older than this guy and look like his son
I agree, it's super creepy. If you didn't say anything, I would have. No one cares how old you are, man.
Realunmaker I like when he does that. As you get older you will probably be doing the same thing. 👍🏻👍🏻☮️🤪
You didn't mention the Palm Pre phone and the fight with Apple. Palm is now owned by HP and they never did anything with it after buying it and it wasn't a "worst" product but it went away fast. It was actually voted "best new tech product" at the 2009 tech expo and was far better than any phone on the market back then but just didn't sell cause people are stupid and they see a celebrity with a piece of shit Iphone and the sheep have to follow. I had this phone and it did things that even today's phones still can't do.
My palm tree and my roommates palm pixie we're awesome. The first mobile device to let you have multiple apps open at once! Now it's common place. Mine was given to me by palm because I sold so many at Best buy lol
My room mate in college hoarded coke and actually punched me when I drank a bottle, even though I paid him for it.
Had E.T. for the Atari, yeah it was THAT bad.
The big one missing is Pepsi's "Crystal Pepsi". They took Pepsi, didn't add the "Caramel coloring" and thus it was supposed to taste the same, but was crystal clear. Whether it was psychological or not, the flavor was truly abysmal and ir didn't last that long at all. In fact, I don't even think it lasted a year.
They did bring back Crystal Pepsi for a limited time. They only had it in 20oz bottles though. Now once again it's only a memory.
These companies still get our money. watching them take an occasional bath is worth it!
Until 2 mths ago I drank Pepsi every single morning for many years. I don't drink coffee or tea. I know several people who drink pop first thing in the morning. I've never heard of Pepsi AM though and I was a teen when it came out. It must not have been sold in Canada.
It never made it out of the test market phase. I remember the local news crowing about how our little area of Iowa was one of the test markets. It tasted like a regular Pepsi would if you opened it in the fridge and let it sit like that until the next day. Yuck.
I always believed there were many things Canada would not market because they care more about their citizens but idk
I have a nice tall Diet Mountain Dew in the morning. More caffeine than pepsi.
Russell Jones As cool as that seems as concept, Pepsi AM wasn't even available in most of the US, as with any other "new" products it was tested in select areas, not nationwide. Then too somethings are fairly regional then "take off" to wider audience, Reese's Pieces are an example: Before the movie "E.T.", 99% of North America never even heard of them, But being that I'm in Pennsylvania (home of the Hershey company), We had them for about 5 years before the movie.
I have noticed that several of the same products sold in Canada and the US taste different such as pop, juice, chips etc. I can't stand the taste of any pop in the US. I know you can't buy some of the chips and chocolate we have such as ketchup chips, dill pickle chips, Kinder Surprise eggs etc. I have friends who ask for care packages from Canada filled with items that can't be bought in the US. You're really missing out. 😂😂😂 It depends on the brand though. Old Dutch beats out Lays, no name brands etc any day.
I miss purple ketchup
I liked the green kind personally
They had Blue room I loved all of them 😅
Burger king had the green ketchup
Master Dabs Man green was the best. I remember my first time I saw it in the store as a kid. That was the shit.
Yasss the burger King green ketchup!!! Lol
I had the E.T. for the Atari 2600. I also had Raiders of the Lost Ark for Atari 2600. Both were TERRIBLE!
I remember Orbitz . I was curious and I tried four flavours of the Beverage. It was "interesting" as the flavours were vague and I could not shake the " drinking pond water with frog eggs in it sensation". Weird and I do not miss this Beverage. I also remember Jolt Cola - fondly despite the fact I am not one to drink a lot of soda . I liked the rush I got from drinking Jolt . Also, does anyone remember that Crank 2- O Caffeine "Fortified " water Beverage that I think debuted in the mid-Nineties ? I remember a Friend who made "special" coffee using Crank 2-O and how He described that He felt "like He was hovering whilst standing " after drinking the "special coffee". Before He discovered how this coffee would effect Him ,He offered me some and I respectfully declined with a "NOPE , I'm not trying THAT !". I did drink just the Caffeinated water out of curiosity and felt wired like as if I drank three-four cups of strong coffee and did not want to drink that water again. I don't believe that my Friend did that again as the caffeine high was quite unpleasant - jitters , nervousness and being too wound up to relax.
In 1957 your mother was born.... In 1957 my dad graduated high school. 😂 I enjoyed your list. You mentioned products I had forgotten about!
In 1957 I was not even thought up at all.
In 57, I was 3 yrs. old.
Nicole Hall my parents graduated high school in 1984
I own both models of the N-Gage. The model shown was the second version. If Nokia started with that, it could have been a hit, but the first model created the "looks like a taco" press. You also had to remove the back to swap out the games on the first model. It had online and bluetooth, which I enjoyed and it was a solid product. It still works today!
Just got rid of my old Zune case... that wasn’t a terrible product, just bad software. And remember the New Years incident where a bunch of Zunes stopped working due to a clock thing and tons of people took them apart to “fix” them...? That was crazy.
Angela Lunsford I might still have my old Zune somewhere lol. I still have my iPod.
I had, and absolutely loved my Atari ET game when I was kid. I played it for hours trying to send ET home in time. I got to be really really good at it. Haha
I actually liked obitz soda it sounds weird but was actually pretty good think of it as the bubble tea of soda
chickenhound you're probably not alone. Americans are a bunch of fickle children. Arguably most often of which are these millennials. Thankfully they'll be gone in another 20 or 30 years.
New Coke sucked! really bad. The taste test was from Coke Cola managers. All said it was great, but at least it was better than Zima
Did you ever try mixing New Coke with Zima.......or Zima w/ Pepsi Clear????
Actually, IMO, New Coke was one of the most brilliant marketing scams ever perpetrated. Sales were dropping as Pepsi's brilliant ad campaign was starting to cut into Coke's sales. So, the braintrust at Coke decided to release a product, knowing people would hate it, in order to garner new interest in Coke so when Coke Classic was released, people were so happy that they went back to buying Coke.
I hated the taste of new coke. It was to sweet. Also wjen they started using corn syrup instead of suger it changed the taste
I heard they snuck in high fructose corn syrup in Original Coke before they introduced New Coke.
Jamie Foxx made some good money being in Zima commercials
also another reason Betamax lost out to vhs was down to Sony not allowing porn videos on the format and JVC didn't care which amazingly helped! Sony also didn't allow porn on Blu-ray either but when the porn industry adopted hd-dvd Sony gave in and allowed porn on Blu-ray but only in the USA
Has any media medium without porn been successful?
I think I read that the number one use for the Gutenberg printing press was the Bible, and number 2 was porn.
sadly, that's not at all true. Despite popular belief almost all of the first porn "videos" were released exclusive on BetaMax, not VHS. One of the major reasons why Beta failed was because they were very slow to release blank video tapes that could record for longer than an hour. VHS jumped on long format videotapes very early, and just beat them to the market
Quick question time: looking at a porn vcr cassette, what's the biggest giveaway without looking at the label that it's porn?
That's a myth! Sony imposed no restrictions on porn for Betamax, there was plenty of porn released on the format. I found a handful of 80s hardcore porn movies while going through my father's Betamax collection (he says he got them for free and only kept the tapes to use for recording over...... seems he never did though.......)
VHS didn't become popular because of porn. Porn became more prevalent on VHS because VHS was *already* more popular.
Even though i like French's ketchup better than Heinz, i still miss the green and purple ketchup. It looked so cool! I thought it would go over well if sports teams sold burgers and dogs with the ketchup with the teams' colors
Who cares about your age when these products flopped?
Zune was actually a better product than the iPod...but it was too late to market
You can tell you lost a lot of weight😁
this should have been titled worst american product flops
But betamax was in fact higher quality video. Know who used it then - broadcast television. I recall being in a tv studio in the early 90's and I saw the huge robot shuffling betamax tapes.
kd1s the betamax tapes studios used were much bigger than the standard consumer tapes also the machines were about 4ft high.
Actually the playback deck on the robot was tiny in comparison. That being said, the widespread adoption of VCR's was actually driven by the porn market. Now of course the web is the best place for porn.
Betamax is consumer version of commercial Betacam .
This reminds me of 8-track tapes, which were consumer versions of the commercial Fidelipac, aka NAB cartridge or "cart". it was pure crap for consumer use. 1) the songs were recorded over the metal tape that changes tracks, causing a terrible noise and interruption, you could not rewind, forward ( if your machine had it ) would most likely eat the tape. sections after last song on a track was usually followed by large empty spaces.
but worse of all, poor quality sound, ( cross talk problems ) and the tapes cam rollers would melt/get sticky in the cars hot interior, tape would get eaten. despite all this, almost everyone had them.
gerald West No, broadcast TV BetaCam tapes are physically the same size as home BetaMax tapes., (hence "cam" in the name, as they replaced 16mm film for TV newsgathering.) You are thinking of Sonys other, and even older tape format: popular with TV stations: The U-MATIC those tapes (and decks) are larger.(the 4 ft things are changing racks for automation, the decks themselves are just bigger versions of a VCR. PS , U-MATIC was also sold as home units (if you were well heeled enough..) in the early 70s, BEFORE BetaMax and VHS. I have both a BetaMax and a U-MATIC deck in my basement today. Before 1970 TV stations used truly massive 2" wide reel to reel videotape.
Higher quality but the tapes weren't long enough to hold an entire long movie.
Pineapple banana cherry coconut would make an amazing ejuice
... ----> *DOOR* find it.
I think that would work
Actually, the final nail for HD DVD was the decision by Warner to stop backing it. Studio support was everything.
#13 Fun fact... the inventor of both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray is one and the same, and according to him HD-DVD... again... was the better product. The man is called *"Kees Schouhamer Immink"*... he's Dutch and was employed by *Philips*, and he's basically the brain of all optical media as well as some digital tape formats like DV and DCC.
Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees_Schouhamer_Immink
# 14: There were actually three systems: Philips had their V2000 system, which was the best, but came too late on the market.
The beta-max (Sony) failed because they would not let the porn industry use the format, and at that time that is what MOST of the rental stores were renting a higher volume of. BluRay (also Sony) they decided to not make that mistake a 2nd time.
@@adamcarter7826 Thanks, didn't know that!