Then he said: "oh, a delicious Dreamcast" and ate it, so he wasn't able to play with it anymore. No celebrity gamer meant no new VHS, so it was canceled. HUEEEEEEEEEE
I always found it amazing how programs like this manage to get hosts than seem to understand less about video games than anyone I've ever seen lol. The '90s was so magical.
Right?! I lost my sh*t at the Ocarina of Time part. Did they make her say that stuff to try to hype up the game? Street Fighter? In what universe? 😂 That’s like how people kept comparing Isle of the Dead to Wolfenstein to try to make it sound good. Except you know, Ocarina of Time turned out to be genuinely good.
I will say this fuse interactive VHS magazine is like watching a time capsule from my high school. And sad to know how most of this stuff ends up in the future.
This date from space atomic era, nowadays we are just starting the trash era, we had just lived 21 years of it, 89 more of disposable technology to come (source Futurama)
The dude in the karate gi leading the sonic chant was actualy the Saturn's mascot in Japan, who had a bunch of ridiculous over the top comercials. From what I understand they actualy did help the Saturn's sales. His actor was also the first Kamen Rider.
@@phelous yeah for sure, its pretty odd they'd make a whole set, hire a bunch of staff and create all these segments just to squash the whole thing right away. Really makes you wonder if there is a long lost episode 2 out there that's only half finished or something. Either way, if that footage does exist it is probably one of the Rarest pieces of 90's nostalgic media of all time
@@mattb9054 I'd love to see the blooper out takes too! I wonder if there is unused footage of Derek and Jacy having to dress up as video game characters, screwing up lines only to have Derek have a complete meltdown because he really hates video games! That would be awesome!
This very much reminded me of an half-an-hour TV show we had around here for a number of years, where they covered gaming. It was very similar in the sense they had some teenagers recruited from some modelling agency, who were wholly uninterested in videogames in a very obvious way, and had to read from a bunch of queue cards written by some dude who thought he was writing funny and witty dialogue. They also had the show broken down in multiple segments: a preview section, a tips and cheat section, and the actual reviews (which I'm pretty sure were written based on someone else's opinion).
Click was probably discontinued because Channel 4 in the UK greenlit GamesMaster. The first UK video game show that was actually very successful and lasted seven series over six years.
I can't imagine why this was cancelled after only 1 video. The acting is so stellar! You can really tell they care about gaming with their flat delivery and bored swiveling in their chairs as they deliver their lines.
This feels similar to those Nintendo Power VHS tapes from the 90s as well as when anime magazines came with DVDs featuring sampler episodes of shows from different distribution companies.
14:49 Old Man: "Damn! Those alien bastards gonna pay for moisting my ride!" Beast: "Nobody steals our roses... and lives!" Beauty: "Somebody's gonna friggin' pay for screwing up MY vacation. He told me."
9:29 To those wondering, this is Segata Sanshiro, an advertising mascot for the Sega Saturn. His gimmick was violently beating people up until they played the Saturn. He was portrayed by Hiroshi Fujioka, who's probably best known for playing Takeshi Hongo, the original Kamen Rider.
Back then, around mid-90's up till early 2000's we had here PC magazines that came with a CD with content you would otherwise get on the internet, and some of them also came with full games they could licence for cheap at the time and did pretty well, because being PC-focused they had a cheap medium they were sure the readers would be able to open and internet being so expensive and slow back then it made a lot of sense to have magazines in thar format.
I still have some of those with some weird old Sierra games specifically who had one main game and them some second rate titles all with codes and walkthroughs, was pretty neat actually :D
Found one of those last week when cleaning up my attic: 6 CDs for 10euro, with 3 full games (Deus, Ishar 2 and a pool game) and dozens of demo, shareware, etc...
It wasnt just PC. PlayStation demo discs have their own cult following. some people have archived all their old demo discs. There are some weird oddities and alternate version demos on those discs that make them desirable for hardcore collectors.
I don't know which is more astounding--That Segata Sanshiro himself was there at the Tokyo game show, that Phelous doesn't know who Segata Sanshiro is, or that NOBODY in this comment section seems to know! We have truly lost our way as a species if we have already forgotten the man and his legacy.
@@jamesduncan6729 I was being sarcastic. Mostly. Segata Sanshiro really is a character more people should know about just because of how hilariously epic his ad campaign was.
"-Sega's first game for its new format, Dreamcast." I love this line because it kind of implies that everyone just forgot about the Saturn. I mean, its media "format" was also CDs.
23:20 This reminds me of the TV show "Bad Influence" its kinda the exact opposit of the magazine on a tape, it was a TV show with a magazine after its credits. They'd flash up 30, 40 pages that you were expected to record for yourself, and then frame by frame advance through to read them. IF your VCR had that feature. And IF it were a 6 head VCR so that you could actually read the stuff. They had a cheatmeister too, his name was NAMROOD. But being an early 90s show he'd do cheats for home computers too like the Amiga range, even early PCs. Typically, by writing the cheat out on a piece of card and sticking it to his head... strange bloke.
Those moments in these reviews when I choke and go, "Someone ELSE remembered that THING I thought only I did?!" In this case it's that absolutely terrible Ghepetto movie with Drew Carey, unlocked some long buried memories on that one, damn XD Also sincerely hoping that Mario Zeldnestein might become a new staple character in the Phelous-Verse
Man, this is my era of gaming. Nostalgia levels at 1000% right now! Also, apart from the VHS gimmick, this is not all that different from a standard gaming show at the time. It's pretty similar to the one that aired in Portugal around this time (and for a few years before) that all the kids used to watch. And kudos to the presenters for not getting lost in the schtick and actually attempting to provide information. Most of the comedy nowadays comes from how outdated and funny-in-hindsight everything is, rather than the product itself, as I have certainly seen much cringier from the same time period.
So I've just started watching this but I think I see what happened here. This probably didn't start out as a magazine but as a video game tv show pilot but when a buyer couldn't be found they probably decided to drum up support by selling the pilot episode as a "magazine". This explains the sets, the fact that they interview people from another magazine, and why only one "issue" was made.
A VHS magazine is just fascinating. I love these dives into things that really could only exist in a certain period, and I was alive for this period. I knew of all these games and game magazines, but I never knew they had a companion VHS. I never knew that so much was put on cassettes.
I foresee the two presenters becoming memes in the future or is it present?🤔 I admit the filter part reminds me of me going nuts with the filters with my very first phone🤣 Gosh now I WANT to play a Gex game 🤣 That shaggy guy though… he looks a lot like Live action Shaggy And that’s why you’re the coolest, Phelan😁😎 Watched 8.8.22 Commented yesterday and again today (10.8.22)
Obviously the camera keeps tilting back and forth because they are filming the show on a large boat, and the second episode/ issue never happened because they sailed into the Bermuda Triangle, after dropping off the raw footage and the Crystal Method guy. And that's how they got to Japan, by sailing there on their boat. But Codeboy and Zeldenstein are not on the boat, which you can tell because the camera doesn't rock where they are (also Zeldenstein is "somewhere in Canada").
I adore how much mileage you've gotten out of that Ice Cream Man clip. You are the KING of creating memes everyone in your community loves, but will be totally lost on absolutely everyone outside this circle. That GBX you flashed on screen was even more 90's than Fuse though. I mean, X standing for Xtreme, and every flash card written in Comic Sans? That's a time capsule! I do love that the main idea behind being a hip 90's kid is "talk like a normal human 80% of the time, and invent the cheesiest voice imaginable the other 20%."
Fun fact: that is not from Ice Cream Man, but a failed Western sentai show "Space Rangers" that was part of the Power Rangers gold rush. It's an understandable mistake, since even the TV Tropes page on Phelan's running jokes has it misattributed.
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte Thank you! I can always count on the Phelous community to correct mistakes in a civilized way. Another reason I love this channel.
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte Thanks for letting us know, I had been wondering where the "you guys gotta try this" was from. Maybe Phelous could review this series someday (if it can be found somewhere) like he did MK Conquest, MK Defenders of the Realm and TMNT Next Mutation ?
21:47 Mario Zeldenstein sounds like a name you'd see in the credits of a English dub of an anime or European cartoon, or the English voice acting credits for a Japanese game.
It truly is astonishing how far video games and even video game marketing has come in just over twenty years. The video game consoles we have today are far more advanced than people who grew up in the 80s and 90s ever dreamed of.
@@darthkai8242 I completely understand where your coming from and I spent most of my childhood playing games on the PS1 and N64 but the processing power of the consoles and what they were capable of was nothing compared to technology today. The 90s still had the bit wars between consoles and most of the titles for the consoles were just terrible. There are some truly groundbreaking games on the N64 and PlayStation but they were groundbreaking because of the time period and the fact that at the time these games were still new and original. When I talk about games today being so far advanced when compared to one's in the 80s and 90s I'm not talking about graphics I'm talking about the technical capabilities of consoles and how with the technology available today there are games that bring whole worlds to life like a movie. Technology has advanced an insane amount over the last twenty years my mobile phone has more processing power and capabilities than most advanced technology from the 90s so much so that I can play PlayStation 1 games on my phone aswell as games from the PSP and even cloud stream Xbox Series X games from a server on the otherside of the country. The video game market today is over saturated with games both good and bad there is so much choice. I can now play simulation games that allow me to be a train driver, a pilot flying a jet, or even a car mechanic. The technology today may seem like it's not that much different to stuff we grew up with in the 90s like a PlayStation controller but in the 90s floppy disks were still commonplace, CD disks were advanced and 1gb of storage on any device was a luxury. Dail up modems, windows 95, landlines, 240p image quality, mobiles phones, video cameras, power steering, 15kb download speed, Walkmans, basic Internet, email, VHS, laserdisks. All of these things and more were considered to be advanced technology less than thirty years ago now all of these things have either become obsolete or have been drastically improved on. We live in an age where practically everything is available to you at your fingertips that was a science fiction in movies in the 80s now it's possible.
This reminds me of our Australian gaming review show called Good Game (Now called Good Game Spawn Point.) It had stuff like talented hosts that reviewed the latest games & answered gaming questions from fans. As well as segment's & sketches that were hit or miss.
You could argue that Click from the BBC is the 'spiritual successor' of this format🤷♀ (it's a segment about the latest technology) In another universe, FUSE was a big hit Also it's always a blessing when you surprise us, Phelous especially posting early ;) The two hosts from FUSE: 🎶Back in the 90's, i was in a not-very-famous TV Show🎵
Can I just say the a&w theme NEVER gets old? I like all the Gex series. Gex made fun of many things. Also I never heard of a VHS magazine so this is new to me.
Yeah, I can tell why this only lasted one issue lol. On one hand, it was cool to see that they did cover how Sonic Adventure was hyping up in Japan and it is very cool that they tried something like this. However, it is very much unfocused at times, the fact that codes could pop up but due to the technology at the time makes it hard to copy and that the whole thing just feels like a group intern project rush out the door, makes it very telling that one issue was all this would get. Still funny to watch though, especially with Phelous's commentary.
There was a videogame show over here on Children's TV called Bad Influence that did a similar "record the show and use pause button to slow down the recording to read" and it worked rather well to be honest
I miss stuff like this so much. None was any good but it drips with homemade charm. I could imagine feeling so cool if I had this as a cool little gamer
Today we're all so used to this sort of content being created directly by people who genuinely enjoy talking about these subjects that we forget at one point this sort of video were the presenters were hired was the norm. I've seen this sort of show quite a bit back in the day. In order to have a successful show in this style you need at least one of three things: a) having good presenters b) these presenters have to be familiar and enthusiastic about the subjects they talk about c) have them be good actors, so they can pretend to like something they might not be into This one video breaks all those rules: a) they're awful presenters b) they either didn't know about the subject they were talking about or absolutely despised it and c) they sucked at pretending otherwise because they were terrible actors Add to that the insane idea of trying to translate the style of a magazine into video form and you have a recipe for a complete disaster. And I freaking love it. It's like a show version of The Room.
I had this vhs tape as a young kid growing up with the N64. This is coming from my perspective as a kid. I remembered that I just found it underneath the backseat of my dad’s old car. It was like I found something that no one had like it was a relic or treasure. The cover had this cool character that I had never seen before. I watched the Japanese event on the tape with footage of a 3D platformer that was definitely unlike Mario 64 and I thought it was really cool. I even remembered playing the demo of the game on a Sega Dreamcast at either K-mart or Target while my mom was shopping for Christmas presents. Outside of the Sonic Adventure bit, everything else on the VHS tape was forgettable. I remembered bits from Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Duke Nukem, and even that Game and Watch GBC game. I had no idea what they were even talking about, I just remembered seeing more late 90s games.
Not only that, but the hosts seemed like they talked a lot to say nothing and when you're being a fake geek (saying bullshit like an action adventure game having a combat system comparable to fighting game mechanics), a gamer instantly catches up on that. And a casual spectator basically gets no valuable information out of the whole deal. The only things valuable this video had was the coverage of Sonic Adventure hype, and the cheat codes that would have been better off written down on a mini-magazine included with the VHS.
Oh god oh god, I had that outfit and haircut at the time. Please no. Why did I have to wake up to be punched in the face by the 90s? (I confess to having seen this. My love of gaming and comics was echoed by my dad. While on leave he brought this to bond with me. I remember a lot of laughter.)
I love this video so much. You can make boring stuff really interesting and really interesting stuff like this even more entertaining. I wish they made more tapes
Thanks for sharing this wildly obsolete magazine of the future, Phelous! I'd never even heard of this thing before. And I guess I'm not entirely shocked that it flew under my radar, seeing as they only made the one issue, lol. But at least you were able to make an awesome video about it, so it's not completely worthless after all! Where did you find this strange relic of the past anyway? Thanks again for posting this excellent video, Phelous! You are, and always will be *the best!*
Dreamcast was such a criminally underappreciated console. I'm glad I still have mine, and it's still hooked up. It's still thinking. I wish like hell I had the broadband adapter for it but my family didn't have broadband at the time so I never got it.
It had some of the best arcade ports of fighting games bar none. If you loved fighting games and shoot them up, it was THE home system to own. Enjoyed every bit of the moment I owned one. Played a hell of a lot of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 port. I'd buy a Dreamcast if I had time for gaming, but it is such a time worm hole and I am so busy with the other hobbies, sad...
@@nozoto Dreamcast continued what the Saturn had started with the trend of excellent fighting game ports. X-Men vs Street Fighter on the Saturn is bliss.
Just by watching even a few minutes of the tape it reminds me alot of a protoype of g4tv, which realy does beg the question if this would have been successful as a hour one tv show simliar to something like attack of the show or xplay
I think the packaging was done that way to fit on a magazine rack or shelf with the other magazines and strategy guides and not leave empty space around it.
Why the hell didn't they just put the GameShark code section in the leaflet they included in the VHS instead of hitting people with that wall text??? 🤦🏿♂️
Actually the ram expansion pak was awesome for one very important reason. The Gameshark Pro, making it very easy to hack and mod N64 games! It's a blast!
At certain points in Derek and Jacy's dialog, I seem to sense a slight slip into a British accent. Being produced in the UK, I have a theory that the hosts are British, and they were told to imitate American accents as best as they could. For the most part, they do a good job of it. Or it could just be my ears deceiving me. Who knows where they have gone after the first and only issue of Fuse.
You see Phelan, celebrities couldn't be open about being gamers back then because it was frowned upon. The backlash was so intense that Fuse had to cancel future productions We just weren't as progressive as we are today....
That's kinda the truth. Back in the day up until the mid-late 00's, saying you used the internet or played video games as an adult was seen as weird and not cool. Video games were seen as children's toys, and to many that'd be like saying you play with GI Joes. Heck, I remember going to elementary school even in the mid 90's kids being bullied for playing video games.
@@planescaped now people just see gamers as creepy, sweaty neckbeards who never bathe or brush their teeth, living in their mom's basements and pretending they're 14 year old girls.🙄
Progressive? You mean like cancer? Humanity is horrific and looks like only the bad things that were predicted about the future have come true: living in a disease ravaged world in the brink of nuclear holocaust and a schizophrenic climate and they keep going on ad on but do nothing about it: I really don't know why I chose to go on living in this horrific existence instead of embracing the sweet release of death. I don't know why I'm telling all of this to total strangers on TH-cam. Because I live in isolation 99% of the time, maybe?
Yeah, nowadays being Latin, Hispanic, Japanese or white is frowned upon. I just love progressives as a Mexican. PS don't call me the L word with hard X
I gotta give Fuse some props for doing a Collab with Game Informer. It was a pretty bold move at the time to have a rival video game magazine on with a new up and coming magazine. It didn't work but they get props for the effort. 👍🏽
I was in college when this came out. But things like this were just rare enough to be considered for picking up. Then TechTV started Extended Play...it was all over...
It's pretty sad that UK TV show GamesMaster was the only Video Game Show that was the most successful. Lasted Seven Series and six years. With it's magazine outlasting the show itself. "Because they actually put care and actual effort into making it work."
This puts in mind how I collected Electronic Gaming Monthlys and GamePros for a time and sometimes they'd come with DVDs which had trailers and extra tidbits at the very least... felt like something extra, like it's how I first found out about Mega64, and not just be Magazine much slower. Also puts in mind of how I actually had a GameShark for PlayStation and the N64, the latter of which came with a gimmick where you could create codes through a rather lengthy and complicated method, even coming with a VHS tape that explains how to do it.
2:45 Don't know about the US, but in France these magazines were made because the publisher paid a lot less tax on the magazine than on the VHS/CD/DVD that came with it.
If it wasn't so tied in with other projects I would've thought this was a failed Xplay pilot. Kinda interesting the short window Xplay was even a viable concept looking ack on it. Couldn't really do it once youtube began to mature but it's also hard to do in the earlier gaming eras before there was a large spread of both nostalgic and ongoing franchises.
*You have to love the irony of a company called “Thin Ice” releasing a product that ‘fell through’.*
OOOOOOOO! SHREDDED!
Don't know whether that warrants a 'badump-tish!' or a 'wamp wamp waaaamp!'.
@@shaunmccomish8572 why not both?
@@shaunmccomish8572 that would be a ‘wadump wamp wadump-tsh’
@@bleachigo990 That sound like a guy fails at using Nunchakus while falling down the stairs.
It’s basically a TH-cam video in VHS form. I kinda love it.
Perfect description
This is how Gaming in the Clinton Years should be collected
And its just as embarassing!
It was G4 before there was G4.
@@MrDman21 Then G4 tried to make a comeback in an era where it was obsolete.
"The future is dead" Honestly sounds like a great tagline for a video game.
I'll bet Old Man was set to be next month's celebrity gamer. He's hip with the electronic games on SEGA's new format.
If only we had a Sega CD game with Old Man yelling at us for getting Beauty killed by the Beast.
Then he said: "oh, a delicious Dreamcast" and ate it, so he wasn't able to play with it anymore. No celebrity gamer meant no new VHS, so it was canceled. HUEEEEEEEEEE
@@andreasnickmann370 He probably would get his Dreamcast shipment dropped into a river, making it completely useless.
gdroms
Oldman: somic hasnt been good since adventure 2, hes completely useless now
I always found it amazing how programs like this manage to get hosts than seem to understand less about video games than anyone I've ever seen lol. The '90s was so magical.
Right?! I lost my sh*t at the Ocarina of Time part.
Did they make her say that stuff to try to hype up the game? Street Fighter? In what universe? 😂
That’s like how people kept comparing Isle of the Dead to Wolfenstein to try to make it sound good.
Except you know, Ocarina of Time turned out to be genuinely good.
I will say this fuse interactive VHS magazine is like watching a time capsule from my high school. And sad to know how most of this stuff ends up in the future.
This date from space atomic era, nowadays we are just starting the trash era, we had just lived 21 years of it, 89 more of disposable technology to come (source Futurama)
The dude in the karate gi leading the sonic chant was actualy the Saturn's mascot in Japan, who had a bunch of ridiculous over the top comercials. From what I understand they actualy did help the Saturn's sales.
His actor was also the first Kamen Rider.
Yeah segata sanshiro.......if I'm not mistaken
SEGA SATURN SHIRO!
I think Phelous's version of the Old Man could make the perfect jackass to star in his own humorous shooter, actually
I'm not going to lie if this came out as i show when i was a kid i would totally watch Jacy talk about games
Phelan is always the one who’s reviewing the most obscure things that I’ve never heard of, and it’s gold.
That Clue reference made my day.
"Flames, flames on the sides of my game shark!"
Holy cow how did I miss that?
Its not the first time someone has quoted that exact line in my life this week. Truly a masterpiece of cinema!
I would love it if someone can find the two hosts and do an interview with them. Great video, thank you!!!
I do wonder what happened to the footage for Issue 2 that it seemed they had all ready shot, heh.
@@phelous If it exists please find it so I can witness every late 90's camera filter all over again, that would bring infinite pleasure!!!
@@phelous yeah for sure, its pretty odd they'd make a whole set, hire a bunch of staff and create all these segments just to squash the whole thing right away. Really makes you wonder if there is a long lost episode 2 out there that's only half finished or something. Either way, if that footage does exist it is probably one of the Rarest pieces of 90's nostalgic media of all time
Phelous and Matt McMuscles could fusion dance their Canadian detective powers to make a What Happened? episode about Fuse.
@@mattb9054 I'd love to see the blooper out takes too! I wonder if there is unused footage of Derek and Jacy having to dress up as video game characters, screwing up lines only to have Derek have a complete meltdown because he really hates video games! That would be awesome!
This very much reminded me of an half-an-hour TV show we had around here for a number of years, where they covered gaming. It was very similar in the sense they had some teenagers recruited from some modelling agency, who were wholly uninterested in videogames in a very obvious way, and had to read from a bunch of queue cards written by some dude who thought he was writing funny and witty dialogue.
They also had the show broken down in multiple segments: a preview section, a tips and cheat section, and the actual reviews (which I'm pretty sure were written based on someone else's opinion).
well whats the show called
@@thefunnychiptuneman I was called "Templo dos Jogos", Temple of Games.
Click was probably discontinued because Channel 4 in the UK greenlit GamesMaster. The first UK video game show that was actually very successful and lasted seven series over six years.
@@SanFran51 thats crazy
I can't imagine why this was cancelled after only 1 video. The acting is so stellar! You can really tell they care about gaming with their flat delivery and bored swiveling in their chairs as they deliver their lines.
This feels similar to those Nintendo Power VHS tapes from the 90s as well as when anime magazines came with DVDs featuring sampler episodes of shows from different distribution companies.
If definitely worked better as a bonus with a magazine cause some sections worked much better in print than on a VHS.
For some reason, that guy's pronunciation of "warrior" made me laugh to the point of tears. My stomach hurts
Issue one of one?! Now that you've collected the whole set get ready for infinite pleasure!
14:49
Old Man: "Damn! Those alien bastards gonna pay for moisting my ride!"
Beast: "Nobody steals our roses... and lives!"
Beauty: "Somebody's gonna friggin' pay for screwing up MY vacation. He told me."
9:29 To those wondering, this is Segata Sanshiro, an advertising mascot for the Sega Saturn. His gimmick was violently beating people up until they played the Saturn.
He was portrayed by Hiroshi Fujioka, who's probably best known for playing Takeshi Hongo, the original Kamen Rider.
Back then, around mid-90's up till early 2000's we had here PC magazines that came with a CD with content you would otherwise get on the internet, and some of them also came with full games they could licence for cheap at the time and did pretty well, because being PC-focused they had a cheap medium they were sure the readers would be able to open and internet being so expensive and slow back then it made a lot of sense to have magazines in thar format.
I still have some of those with some weird old Sierra games specifically who had one main game and them some second rate titles all with codes and walkthroughs, was pretty neat actually :D
Yes. We had maybe a half a year subscription for one of those in Finland.
Found one of those last week when cleaning up my attic: 6 CDs for 10euro, with 3 full games (Deus, Ishar 2 and a pool game) and dozens of demo, shareware, etc...
I miss demo disks =[ rentals too! =]
It wasnt just PC. PlayStation demo discs have their own cult following. some people have archived all their old demo discs. There are some weird oddities and alternate version demos on those discs that make them desirable for hardcore collectors.
It feels like those videos they would play in gamestop while you shopped
I don't know which is more astounding--That Segata Sanshiro himself was there at the Tokyo game show, that Phelous doesn't know who Segata Sanshiro is, or that NOBODY in this comment section seems to know! We have truly lost our way as a species if we have already forgotten the man and his legacy.
Phelous should Review Swordkill Starring Hiroshi Fujioka who also played Kamen Rider 1, & Segata Sanshiro.
Maybe Phelous works for Shocker's Canadian Branch.
Oh no. Some people don't know who this obscure Japanese mascot is... What a tragedy
@@jamesduncan6729 I was being sarcastic. Mostly. Segata Sanshiro really is a character more people should know about just because of how hilariously epic his ad campaign was.
I just love the weird stuff Phelous finds and shares with us
"-Sega's first game for its new format, Dreamcast."
I love this line because it kind of implies that everyone just forgot about the Saturn. I mean, its media "format" was also CDs.
The Dreamcast used Yamaha's proprietary GD-ROM format (a derivative of CD-ROM, but not the same).
😂wow
23:20 This reminds me of the TV show "Bad Influence" its kinda the exact opposit of the magazine on a tape, it was a TV show with a magazine after its credits. They'd flash up 30, 40 pages that you were expected to record for yourself, and then frame by frame advance through to read them. IF your VCR had that feature. And IF it were a 6 head VCR so that you could actually read the stuff.
They had a cheatmeister too, his name was NAMROOD. But being an early 90s show he'd do cheats for home computers too like the Amiga range, even early PCs. Typically, by writing the cheat out on a piece of card and sticking it to his head... strange bloke.
Those moments in these reviews when I choke and go, "Someone ELSE remembered that THING I thought only I did?!" In this case it's that absolutely terrible Ghepetto movie with Drew Carey, unlocked some long buried memories on that one, damn XD Also sincerely hoping that Mario Zeldnestein might become a new staple character in the Phelous-Verse
To be fair the game informer segment is an accurate portrayal of a group of friends talking about games
if one of them is extremely stoned
So glad you still make vids. Can't tell ya how many long nights of playing games have been soundtracked by some good old fashioned Phelous
Man, this is my era of gaming. Nostalgia levels at 1000% right now!
Also, apart from the VHS gimmick, this is not all that different from a standard gaming show at the time. It's pretty similar to the one that aired in Portugal around this time (and for a few years before) that all the kids used to watch. And kudos to the presenters for not getting lost in the schtick and actually attempting to provide information. Most of the comedy nowadays comes from how outdated and funny-in-hindsight everything is, rather than the product itself, as I have certainly seen much cringier from the same time period.
Okay, did they just compare Zelda to Street Fighter? Okay, nevermind. THAT was cringey.
Out of all the gaming magazines around in the 1990s, Game Informer is the only one still being published (at the time I'm writing this, anyway).
So I've just started watching this but I think I see what happened here. This probably didn't start out as a magazine but as a video game tv show pilot but when a buyer couldn't be found they probably decided to drum up support by selling the pilot episode as a "magazine". This explains the sets, the fact that they interview people from another magazine, and why only one "issue" was made.
A VHS magazine is just fascinating. I love these dives into things that really could only exist in a certain period, and I was alive for this period. I knew of all these games and game magazines, but I never knew they had a companion VHS. I never knew that so much was put on cassettes.
8:31 Oh shit, it's Samurai Zombie Nation!
14:46 Now that's a crossover: They HIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I foresee the two presenters becoming memes in the future or is it present?🤔
I admit the filter part reminds me of me going nuts with the filters with my very first phone🤣
Gosh now I WANT to play a Gex game 🤣
That shaggy guy though… he looks a lot like Live action Shaggy
And that’s why you’re the coolest, Phelan😁😎
Watched 8.8.22
Commented yesterday and again today (10.8.22)
Obviously the camera keeps tilting back and forth because they are filming the show on a large boat, and the second episode/ issue never happened because they sailed into the Bermuda Triangle, after dropping off the raw footage and the Crystal Method guy. And that's how they got to Japan, by sailing there on their boat. But Codeboy and Zeldenstein are not on the boat, which you can tell because the camera doesn't rock where they are (also Zeldenstein is "somewhere in Canada").
Leonard Maltin did the same thing with a DVD magazine that would talk about upcoming DVD releases. It also only lasted one "issue".
I adore how much mileage you've gotten out of that Ice Cream Man clip.
You are the KING of creating memes everyone in your community loves, but will be totally lost on absolutely everyone outside this circle.
That GBX you flashed on screen was even more 90's than Fuse though. I mean, X standing for Xtreme, and every flash card written in Comic Sans? That's a time capsule!
I do love that the main idea behind being a hip 90's kid is "talk like a normal human 80% of the time, and invent the cheesiest voice imaginable the other 20%."
Fun fact: that is not from Ice Cream Man, but a failed Western sentai show "Space Rangers" that was part of the Power Rangers gold rush. It's an understandable mistake, since even the TV Tropes page on Phelan's running jokes has it misattributed.
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte OH thanks for correcting it. I TOO thought it was from Ice Cream Man XD
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte Thank you!
I can always count on the Phelous community to correct mistakes in a civilized way. Another reason I love this channel.
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte Thanks for letting us know, I had been wondering where the "you guys gotta try this" was from. Maybe Phelous could review this series someday (if it can be found somewhere) like he did MK Conquest, MK Defenders of the Realm and TMNT Next Mutation ?
21:47 Mario Zeldenstein sounds like a name you'd see in the credits of a English dub of an anime or European cartoon, or the English voice acting credits for a Japanese game.
It truly is astonishing how far video games and even video game marketing has come in just over twenty years. The video game consoles we have today are far more advanced than people who grew up in the 80s and 90s ever dreamed of.
@@darthkai8242 I completely understand where your coming from and I spent most of my childhood playing games on the PS1 and N64 but the processing power of the consoles and what they were capable of was nothing compared to technology today.
The 90s still had the bit wars between consoles and most of the titles for the consoles were just terrible. There are some truly groundbreaking games on the N64 and PlayStation but they were groundbreaking because of the time period and the fact that at the time these games were still new and original.
When I talk about games today being so far advanced when compared to one's in the 80s and 90s I'm not talking about graphics I'm talking about the technical capabilities of consoles and how with the technology available today there are games that bring whole worlds to life like a movie.
Technology has advanced an insane amount over the last twenty years my mobile phone has more processing power and capabilities than most advanced technology from the 90s so much so that I can play PlayStation 1 games on my phone aswell as games from the PSP and even cloud stream Xbox Series X games from a server on the otherside of the country.
The video game market today is over saturated with games both good and bad there is so much choice. I can now play simulation games that allow me to be a train driver, a pilot flying a jet, or even a car mechanic.
The technology today may seem like it's not that much different to stuff we grew up with in the 90s like a PlayStation controller but in the 90s floppy disks were still commonplace, CD disks were advanced and 1gb of storage on any device was a luxury.
Dail up modems, windows 95, landlines, 240p image quality, mobiles phones, video cameras, power steering, 15kb download speed, Walkmans, basic Internet, email, VHS, laserdisks. All of these things and more were considered to be advanced technology less than thirty years ago now all of these things have either become obsolete or have been drastically improved on.
We live in an age where practically everything is available to you at your fingertips that was a science fiction in movies in the 80s now it's possible.
This reminds me of our Australian gaming review show called Good Game (Now called Good Game Spawn Point.) It had stuff like talented hosts that reviewed the latest games & answered gaming questions from fans. As well as segment's & sketches that were hit or miss.
The past listening to future Phelous: The Frig is a Netflix? Is that like Blockbuster?
Phelous: 😬
You could argue that Click from the BBC is the 'spiritual successor' of this format🤷♀ (it's a segment about the latest technology)
In another universe, FUSE was a big hit
Also it's always a blessing when you surprise us, Phelous especially posting early ;)
The two hosts from FUSE: 🎶Back in the 90's, i was in a not-very-famous TV Show🎵
Can I just say the a&w theme NEVER gets old? I like all the Gex series. Gex made fun of many things. Also I never heard of a VHS magazine so this is new to me.
Thank you for saying that ❤ I agree😂 I love that theme so much I put it on my playlist
Totally!
Yeah, I can tell why this only lasted one issue lol. On one hand, it was cool to see that they did cover how Sonic Adventure was hyping up in Japan and it is very cool that they tried something like this. However, it is very much unfocused at times, the fact that codes could pop up but due to the technology at the time makes it hard to copy and that the whole thing just feels like a group intern project rush out the door, makes it very telling that one issue was all this would get. Still funny to watch though, especially with Phelous's commentary.
19:57
That was some brilliant editing!
Thank you
Yeah that was BEAUTIFUL 😂 no idea how the monitor part happened but it was magic😜😎
There was a videogame show over here on Children's TV called Bad Influence that did a similar "record the show and use pause button to slow down the recording to read" and it worked rather well to be honest
I miss stuff like this so much. None was any good but it drips with homemade charm. I could imagine feeling so cool if I had this as a cool little gamer
This feels like a lost pilot for an original G4 show that never got aired.
Today we're all so used to this sort of content being created directly by people who genuinely enjoy talking about these subjects that we forget at one point this sort of video were the presenters were hired was the norm. I've seen this sort of show quite a bit back in the day. In order to have a successful show in this style you need at least one of three things:
a) having good presenters
b) these presenters have to be familiar and enthusiastic about the subjects they talk about
c) have them be good actors, so they can pretend to like something they might not be into
This one video breaks all those rules:
a) they're awful presenters
b) they either didn't know about the subject they were talking about or absolutely despised it and
c) they sucked at pretending otherwise because they were terrible actors
Add to that the insane idea of trying to translate the style of a magazine into video form and you have a recipe for a complete disaster. And I freaking love it. It's like a show version of The Room.
"This promotion is weird." Phelous, don't insult the great Segata Sanshiro! He died for us!
I had this vhs tape as a young kid growing up with the N64. This is coming from my perspective as a kid.
I remembered that I just found it underneath the backseat of my dad’s old car. It was like I found something that no one had like it was a relic or treasure. The cover had this cool character that I had never seen before. I watched the Japanese event on the tape with footage of a 3D platformer that was definitely unlike Mario 64 and I thought it was really cool. I even remembered playing the demo of the game on a Sega Dreamcast at either K-mart or Target while my mom was shopping for Christmas presents.
Outside of the Sonic Adventure bit, everything else on the VHS tape was forgettable. I remembered bits from Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Duke Nukem, and even that Game and Watch GBC game. I had no idea what they were even talking about, I just remembered seeing more late 90s games.
I can definitely see why Fuse never took off. Its production values made early Internet game review shows look high budget by comparison
Not only that, but the hosts seemed like they talked a lot to say nothing and when you're being a fake geek (saying bullshit like an action adventure game having a combat system comparable to fighting game mechanics), a gamer instantly catches up on that. And a casual spectator basically gets no valuable information out of the whole deal. The only things valuable this video had was the coverage of Sonic Adventure hype, and the cheat codes that would have been better off written down on a mini-magazine included with the VHS.
Oh god oh god, I had that outfit and haircut at the time. Please no. Why did I have to wake up to be punched in the face by the 90s? (I confess to having seen this. My love of gaming and comics was echoed by my dad. While on leave he brought this to bond with me. I remember a lot of laughter.)
I love this video so much. You can make boring stuff really interesting and really interesting stuff like this even more entertaining. I wish they made more tapes
Phelous needs to make a VHS style video where he talks about video game "G"
I totally misunderstood what this was I thought it was a magazine for reviewing those VHS board games from the 90s 😂
As usual appreciate great research you do for these vids Phelous!
Been loving these gaming promo videos super interesting stuff
Thanks for sharing this wildly obsolete magazine of the future, Phelous! I'd never even heard of this thing before. And I guess I'm not entirely shocked that it flew under my radar, seeing as they only made the one issue, lol. But at least you were able to make an awesome video about it, so it's not completely worthless
after all! Where did you find this strange relic of the past anyway?
Thanks again for posting this excellent video, Phelous! You are, and always will be *the best!*
"THIS HOUSE IS CLEAN," - Mario Zeldastein
Dreamcast was such a criminally underappreciated console. I'm glad I still have mine, and it's still hooked up. It's still thinking. I wish like hell I had the broadband adapter for it but my family didn't have broadband at the time so I never got it.
It had some of the best arcade ports of fighting games bar none. If you loved fighting games and shoot them up, it was THE home system to own. Enjoyed every bit of the moment I owned one. Played a hell of a lot of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 port. I'd buy a Dreamcast if I had time for gaming, but it is such a time worm hole and I am so busy with the other hobbies, sad...
@@nozoto Dreamcast continued what the Saturn had started with the trend of excellent fighting game ports. X-Men vs Street Fighter on the Saturn is bliss.
Wow, right on the end of VHS and where DVD rose. Must watch. Ha.
The room full of obviously toasted dudes giving their unfiltered opinions on games and laughing was actually the best part of the whole thing
Just by watching even a few minutes of the tape it reminds me alot of a protoype of g4tv, which realy does beg the question if this would have been successful as a hour one tv show simliar to something like attack of the show or xplay
22:37 - 22:40 Fellow Canadians Shane and Adam of Rerez agree with you,100%
they're Canadian too?
@@gracekim1998 Yup.
@@majorfanboy2005 WHOA....why do i always find this out so late XD
seems like the 90's was a time full of one-time gimmicks that didn't last too long
indeed
Nice use of the clip of Drew Carey from the Geppetto movie whisper yelling to the Blue Fairy.
Hhmm...You know we've never seen Mario Zeldenstein and Phelous in the same room...really makes you think...
Didn’t think sincerity still wasn’t invented back then.
This Fuse VHS video game magazine was surely a Zeldastein monster!
It’s got Sonic on the cover, this is a great start
I would have loved for Fuse to have more issues just so Phelous could review them.
When I hear the word Fuse in the context of games, one of the first things I think of is Soulja Boy's Fuze system. You should check it out
I love this channel…so random how I found it, just love this guy’s tone, the whole video is hilarious
This makes those weird Howard Johnson/Sega VHS promos look like high budget cinema by contrast!
I think the packaging was done that way to fit on a magazine rack or shelf with the other magazines and strategy guides and not leave empty space around it.
13:09 Maybe that’s why Siro wanted the ultimate warrior
Why the hell didn't they just put the GameShark code section in the leaflet they included in the VHS instead of hitting people with that wall text??? 🤦🏿♂️
Great question
because it's novel, and
My favorite part is how the keep almost using correct gaming terminology.
Actually the ram expansion pak was awesome for one very important reason.
The Gameshark Pro, making it very easy to hack and mod N64 games!
It's a blast!
30:28 to skip the guy talking part and get right to the music
Well yes the new theme IS awesome but so is Phelous 😎
At certain points in Derek and Jacy's dialog, I seem to sense a slight slip into a British accent. Being produced in the UK, I have a theory that the hosts are British, and they were told to imitate American accents as best as they could. For the most part, they do a good job of it. Or it could just be my ears deceiving me. Who knows where they have gone after the first and only issue of Fuse.
Ah 🤔 maybe
This kind of giving me G4 flashbacks. This vhs limped so G4 could trip over it trying to run.
You see Phelan, celebrities couldn't be open about being gamers back then because it was frowned upon. The backlash was so intense that Fuse had to cancel future productions
We just weren't as progressive as we are today....
That's kinda the truth.
Back in the day up until the mid-late 00's, saying you used the internet or played video games as an adult was seen as weird and not cool. Video games were seen as children's toys, and to many that'd be like saying you play with GI Joes. Heck, I remember going to elementary school even in the mid 90's kids being bullied for playing video games.
@@planescaped now people just see gamers as creepy, sweaty neckbeards who never bathe or brush their teeth, living in their mom's basements and pretending they're 14 year old girls.🙄
Progressive? You mean like cancer? Humanity is horrific and looks like only the bad things that were predicted about the future have come true: living in a disease ravaged world in the brink of nuclear holocaust and a schizophrenic climate and they keep going on ad on but do nothing about it: I really don't know why I chose to go on living in this horrific existence instead of embracing the sweet release of death.
I don't know why I'm telling all of this to total strangers on TH-cam. Because I live in isolation 99% of the time, maybe?
Yeah, nowadays being Latin, Hispanic, Japanese or white is frowned upon. I just love progressives as a Mexican.
PS don't call me the L word with hard X
@@solouno2280 Lorax?
Phelous would make great commentary for Zen Studios: The Pinball Show.
Long time subber. Love the channel, keep up the great work!
I have no idea why this is one of the channels I keep forgetting and then getting really excited when I see the videos pop up
🤦🏼♂️
17:05
"The Legacy of Kain, Soul Reaver Hahaha... what a Story Mark"
I gotta give Fuse some props for doing a Collab with Game Informer. It was a pretty bold move at the time to have a rival video game magazine on with a new up and coming magazine. It didn't work but they get props for the effort. 👍🏽
4:28 Electronic Games? Never heard that term since the guy from Pepsiman said “TV Game”. Still it’s a brilliant blast offered from the 90s.
Fuse vhs magazine also released a E3 vhs tape back in the day.
I was in college when this came out. But things like this were just rare enough to be considered for picking up.
Then TechTV started Extended Play...it was all over...
It's pretty sad that UK TV show GamesMaster was the only Video Game Show that was the most successful. Lasted Seven Series and six years. With it's magazine outlasting the show itself.
"Because they actually put care and actual effort into making it work."
Mmm will definitely look into that 😊
This puts in mind how I collected Electronic Gaming Monthlys and GamePros for a time and sometimes they'd come with DVDs which had trailers and extra tidbits at the very least... felt like something extra, like it's how I first found out about Mega64, and not just be Magazine much slower.
Also puts in mind of how I actually had a GameShark for PlayStation and the N64, the latter of which came with a gimmick where you could create codes through a rather lengthy and complicated method, even coming with a VHS tape that explains how to do it.
2:45 Don't know about the US, but in France these magazines were made because the publisher paid a lot less tax on the magazine than on the VHS/CD/DVD that came with it.
Love learning about the 90’s😎
Old Man: Oh no the gaming console is all wet, its completely useless now.
Me: Yep, that sounds about right.
Wow the 90s it burns!
"First time seen by human eyes"
Guess game developers aren't human. What other secrets did Fuse know?
14:16
'Scheduled to release early next year'
*has a stoke*
'Stay tuned!'
GGGHHHHAAAA!
If it wasn't so tied in with other projects I would've thought this was a failed Xplay pilot. Kinda interesting the short window Xplay was even a viable concept looking ack on it. Couldn't really do it once youtube began to mature but it's also hard to do in the earlier gaming eras before there was a large spread of both nostalgic and ongoing franchises.