Thank you for showing Frisky Tom, that was the second video game I ever had, my Dad brought it home as a gift after a business trip. If you get to a higher level, the mice start lighting bombs under the water tank that you have to put out.
I had this back in the day. I bought it on my Birthday and the cartoon lady in the tub on the box had me sold! It was an amazing handheld for its time with color to boot and I remember after a few levels there was an intermission just like the Arcade cabinets would have.
That florescent display is gorgeous. I have a couple of these old games, but they're LED, one's a space invaders clone and one's a Battlestar Galactica game.
"Frisky" means exactly the same thing in the US." It can, but usually it just means energetically playful, like a cat might be. Hence, Friskies dry cat food.
We took lots of long vacations when me and my little brother were little (6 weeks in each direction) and I remember getting a tiger game of wizards and warriors, one of my favorite games, the sound driving my parents insane and the handheld being appauling. 'Nearly ruining my memory of some of my favorite games.
@Boloyung9 At least with AIDS it's curable as to the appalled feeling you get from playing Tiger games. They were so outdated, they weren't even indated.
It’s incredible, I think, when I can watch more than half of a seven year old video and be EXTREMELY surprised when I realize that it ISN’T brand new... Thank you Ashens.
I was literally searching something on the floor when you pretended to read the description of the game, i pretty much shouted "WHAT?!" while franticly getting up, only to realise, I had been fooled. Oh, ashens.
That Frisky Tom game looked like a lot of fun. I'd say it tops some of Nintendo's Game & Watch units for sure, though maybe not in the portability sense.
"Frisky Tom" could definitely be a great minigame/phone game/browser game with a bit of polish (mainly making it clearer what's going on with the pipes falling on you), and "Race 'n' Chase" has potential, too.
You can really tell that Ashens just wants to remain humble about 300 videos rather than wear himself out and do something special about it, he has decided that he wants to continue doing what he does, rather than letting accomplishments get in the way of it. I really respect that, and feel like the only episodes of a series that need to separate themselves from another on purpose are the Pilots, and finales.
On the battery side of things, a mercury oxide battery would be best as they have a steady output, not fluctuating slightly like modern cells do, sadly, they are now illegal in most countries because someone thought mercury might be a bit dangerous in a battery.
The Stoned Videogame Nerd Voltage per cell is no big limit. There is great potential in the electrode surface development for better capacity and discharge current.
thatguy Use an Energizer Ultimate Lithium battery (they are EXTREMELY expensive; $20 for 8 AA cells). They can retain about 50% capacity after 100 years vacuum-sealed and stored in a freezer (20 years retaining nearly full capacity at varying room temperature). The voltage is 1.90v per cell, as opposed to 1.61v for new alkalines. Lithium AA cells are even lighter weight than carbon-zinc "dollar store batteries", and they last an incredibly long time. Only one problem. I am able to recharge Alkaline primary cells up to 70 times just fine (I even have a charger specifically advertised and designed to charge non-rechargeable batteries), but Lithium primary cells CANNOT be recharged at all, not even once.
these handhelds take me back. I can remember the last two, the frisky one, Ive heard of but never actually seen before. Thanks for this, finally get to see one. This bugger is rarer than a game child. Hope you got the dalek sec
If my budgie ever made 8-bit noises. I would stuff it in a bag and send it to Ashens for blind bag, It would not make it to shelf on interesting things or purgatory. Lets just say that!
WTF TH-cam, trying to hide from me the fact that there's a new video. Ah, the soothing voice of Ashens telling me some random stuff about some weird crap.
Loved the Frisky Tom game as a kid in the late 80s. It was one of those things that 'the child whose parents had a bit of money' always brought along on school trips before the advent of the Game Boy. It reminded me a lot of the Super Pipeline games on the C64, which were a lot of fun. But even then Frisky Tom was pretty obscure; most kids just had Nintendo G&Ws or cheap knockoffs. I remember LED games ate through batteries. That thing wouldn't last a day.
I wonder if anybody has an old Comp IV? I had one in the late 70's and got pretty good at it. The game was just like Mastermind, where you tried to guess the other player's color pegs with your only clues being how many you guessed right and how many were in the correct permutation. The Comp IV used numbers, 1 through 5, with 3,4, or 5 digit permutations to guess, instead of colors since it's display was 10 red LED's next to numbers on the screen itself.
I had one of those when I was a kid. It was a large green circular thing where you had to capture animals with a cage (moving box). It was legitimately entertaining for the time!
Was going to comment when he first turned the on that the monsters looked a bit like the ones in Space Invaders, then I quickly discovered that there was a good reason for that.
tandy made a series of games similar to invaders from space. i have one i recently got working again recently. still fun despite it's age. also, love those old VFD screens. so much better than the LEDs and LCD screens today
ACT I SCENE I. A desert place. Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches First Witch When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second Witch When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. Third Witch That will be ere the set of sun. First Witch Where the place? Second Witch Upon the heath. Third Witch There to meet with Macbeth. First Witch I come, Graymalkin! Second Witch Paddock calls. Third Witch Anon. ALL Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. Exeunt SCENE II. A camp near Forres. Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant DUNCAN What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state. MALCOLM This is the sergeant Who like a good and hardy soldier fought 'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend! Say to the king the knowledge of the broil As thou didst leave it. Sergeant Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald-- Worthy to be a rebel, for to that The multiplying villanies of nature Do swarm upon him--from the western isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak: For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name-- Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave; Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, And fix'd his head upon our battlements. DUNCAN O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! Sergeant As whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark: No sooner justice had with valour arm'd Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels, But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage, With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men Began a fresh assault. DUNCAN Dismay'd not this Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo? Sergeant Yes; As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. If I say sooth, I must report they were As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe: Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, Or memorise another Golgotha, I cannot tell. But I am faint, my gashes cry for help. DUNCAN So well thy words become thee as thy wounds; They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons. Exit Sergeant, attended Who comes here? Enter ROSS MALCOLM The worthy thane of Ross. LENNOX What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look That seems to speak things strange. ROSS God save the king! DUNCAN Whence camest thou, worthy thane? ROSS From Fife, great king; Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky And fan our people cold. Norway himself, With terrible numbers, Assisted by that most disloyal traitor The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict; Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof, Confronted him with self-comparisons, Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm. Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude, The victory fell on us. DUNCAN Great happiness! ROSS That now Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition: Nor would we deign him burial of his men Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch Ten thousand dollars to our general use. DUNCAN No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death, And with his former title greet Macbeth. ROSS I'll see it done. DUNCAN What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won. Exeunt SCENE III. A heath near Forres. Thunder. Enter the three Witches First Witch Where hast thou been, sister? Second Witch Killing swine. Third Witch Sister, where thou? First Witch A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:-- 'Give me,' quoth I: 'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger: But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do. Second Witch I'll give thee a wind. First Witch Thou'rt kind. Third Witch And I another. First Witch I myself have all the other, And the very ports they blow, All the quarters that they know I' the shipman's card. I will drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid; He shall live a man forbid: Weary se'nnights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine: Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-tost. Look what I have. Second Witch Show me, show me. First Witch Here I have a pilot's thumb, Wreck'd as homeward he did come. Drum within Third Witch A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come. ALL The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine and thrice to mine And thrice again, to make up nine. Peace! the charm's wound up. Enter MACBETH and BANQUO MACBETH So foul and fair a day I have not seen. BANQUO How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her chappy finger laying Upon her skinny lips: you should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. MACBETH Speak, if you can: what are you? First Witch All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis! Second Witch All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! Third Witch All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter! BANQUO Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner You greet with present grace and great prediction Of noble having and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not. If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate. First Witch Hail! Second Witch Hail! Third Witch Hail! First Witch Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Second Witch Not so happy, yet much happier. Third Witch Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none: So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo! First Witch Banquo and Macbeth, all hail! MACBETH Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more: By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis; But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be king Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence You owe this strange intelligence? or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you. Witches vanish BANQUO The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd? MACBETH Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd! BANQUO Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner? MACBETH Your children shall be kings. BANQUO You shall be king. MACBETH And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so? BANQUO To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here? Enter ROSS and ANGUS ROSS The king hath happily received, Macbeth, The news of thy success; and when he reads Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight, His wonders and his praises do contend Which should be thine or his: silenced with that, In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day, He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks, Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make, Strange images of death. As thick as hail Came post with post; and every one did bear Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence, And pour'd them down before him. ANGUS We are sent To give thee from our royal master thanks; Only to herald thee into his sight, Not pay thee. ROSS And, for an earnest of a greater honour, He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor: In which addition, hail, most worthy thane! For it is thine. BANQUO What, can the devil speak true? MACBETH The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me In borrow'd robes? ANGUS Who was the thane lives yet; But under heavy judgment bears that life Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined With those of Norway, or did line the rebel With hidden help and vantage, or that with both He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not; But treasons capital, confess'd and proved, Have overthrown him. MACBETH [Aside] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor! The greatest is behind. To ROSS and ANGUS Thanks for your pains. To BANQUO Do you not hope your children shall be kings, When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me Promised no less to them? BANQUO That trusted home Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you. MACBETH [Aside] Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme.--I thank you, gentlemen. Aside Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. BANQUO Look, how our partner's rapt. MACBETH [Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. BANQUO New horrors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But with the aid of use. MACBETH [Aside] Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. BANQUO Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure. MACBETH Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains Are register'd where every day I turn The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king. Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time, The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak Our free hearts each to other. BANQUO Very gladly. MACBETH Till then, enough. Come, friends. Exeunt SCENE IV. Forres. The palace. Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and Attendants DUNCAN Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not Those in commission yet return'd? MALCOLM My liege, They are not yet come back. But I have spoke With one that saw him die: who did report That very frankly he confess'd his treasons, Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle. DUNCAN There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust. Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, and ANGUS O worthiest cousin! The sin of my ingratitude even now Was heavy on me: thou art so far before That swiftest wing of recompense is slow To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved, That the proportion both of thanks and payment Might have been mine! only I have left to say, More is thy due than more than all can pay. MACBETH The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part Is to receive our duties; and our duties Are to your throne and state children and servants, Which do but what they should, by doing every thing Safe toward your love and honour. DUNCAN Welcome hither: I have begun to plant thee, and will labour To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo, That hast no less deserved, nor must be known No less to have done so, let me enfold thee And hold thee to my heart. BANQUO There if I grow, The harvest is your own. DUNCAN My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes, And you whose places are the nearest, know We will establish our estate upon Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must Not unaccompanied invest him only, But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine On all deservers. From hence to Inverness, And bind us further to you. MACBETH The rest is labour, which is not used for you: I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful The hearing of my wife with your approach; So humbly take my leave. DUNCAN My worthy Cawdor! MACBETH [Aside] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. Exit DUNCAN True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, And in his commendations I am fed; It is a banquet to me. Let's after him, Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome: It is a peerless kinsman. Flourish. Exeunt SCENE V. Inverness. Macbeth's castle. Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter LADY MACBETH 'They met me in the day of success: and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell.' Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis, That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal. Enter a Messenger What is your tidings? Messenger The king comes here to-night. LADY MACBETH Thou'rt mad to say it: Is not thy master with him? who, were't so, Would have inform'd for preparation. Messenger So please you, it is true: our thane is coming: One of my fellows had the speed of him, Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more Than would make up his message. LADY MACBETH Give him tending; He brings great news. Exit Messenger The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!' Enter MACBETH Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter! Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant. MACBETH My dearest love, Duncan comes here to-night. LADY MACBETH And when goes hence? MACBETH To-morrow, as he purposes. LADY MACBETH O, never Shall sun that morrow see! Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. He that's coming Must be provided for: and you shall put This night's great business into my dispatch; Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom. MACBETH We will speak further. LADY MACBETH Only look up clear; To alter favour ever is to fear: Leave all the rest to me. Exeunt SCENE VI. Before Macbeth's castle. Hautboys and torches. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and Attendants DUNCAN This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BANQUO This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate. Enter LADY MACBETH DUNCAN See, see, our honour'd hostess! The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains, And thank us for your trouble. LADY MACBETH All our service In every point twice done and then done double Were poor and single business to contend Against those honours deep and broad wherewith Your majesty loads our house: for those of old, And the late dignities heap'd up to them, We rest your hermits. DUNCAN Where's the thane of Cawdor? We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose To be his purveyor: but he rides well; And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess, We are your guest to-night. LADY MACBETH Your servants ever Have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt, To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, Still to return your own. DUNCAN Give me your hand; Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly, And shall continue our graces towards him. By your leave, hostess. Exeunt SCENE VII. Macbeth's castle. Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH MACBETH If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other. Enter LADY MACBETH How now! what news? LADY MACBETH He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?
Yes. It even tells you how many lines you are in store for ahead of time. 648. That's more than I will plan to read on a website like that especially when it has nothing to do with anything I assume.
Oh wow. I played that Invaders from Space game so much as a kid. I can't remember the noise being that obnoxious either. Thanks for bringing back the good memories like!
I had one very similar to the Invaders from Space in the early 80s. It had a 2 player option with a second set of controls at the top so player 2 could control the invaders. I loved that game.
Bloody hell, I just watched Ashens' "The Box of Retro Delights" video on TGWTG yesterday, and though "Hmmm, wonder when he'll get around to doing those, those Bambino games look interesting..." Even though the tat is fun, it's great to see these proper games make an appearance occasionally.
Glad to see I'm not the only one. If it weren't for ashens' tumblr I wouldn't have known this video was uploaded. I hope youtube will fix this quickly...
Lots of comments ,doubt I'm first to say, but can't read 1.1k comments to see: the bathtub lady is why he's frisky and why he's so impatient to fill the tub he's randy frisky feeling his oats tom
Here's a very interesting fact: Race n' chase was the original idea for a game made by rockstar games, later, they changed the Race n' chase to the first game of the Grand Theft Auto series :)
This reminded me of being about 3 years old back in the 80s coming down stairs and my dad having a loch ness board game and a turquoise space invaders handheld which I think mustve been my very first gaming experience Peace!!
I have the Entex made version of space invaders also was and still is very loud they all had no volume control. I've had mine since 1982 and it still works perfect .
woo 300 vid great one ashens. Keep up the amazing work i subed to you in 2012 and you always make me laugh. Your vids are very unique and never fails to make me laugh about a british joke as im from britain and i get them :) thank you
The first one (Fr1sky Tom) is an adaptation of an arcade game The second one (Race N' Chase) to me is a racing game and a "chase the bad guys" type game The third one (Invader from Space) it's just Space Invaders
FYI - that's based on an actual coin operated arcade game by Nichibutsu of the same title and game play, which you go around trying to fix pipes as mice attack you.
I owed the grandstand football game, 3 players on each team and only one player on your side was controlled by the player, the other 2 moved randomly!! Ah i loved those days.
Thank you for showing Frisky Tom, that was the second video game I ever had, my Dad brought it home as a gift after a business trip. If you get to a higher level, the mice start lighting bombs under the water tank that you have to put out.
Also done in the arcade version (released by Nicibutsu)
A HD remake of FriskyTom would be awesome
hows progress +KillThad
So? Done yet?
+KillThad just like my unfinished fps. I'm going to make a overhauled version.
KillThad Well, I shouldn't be talking since I have no experience besides graphics, but that seems like an easy task.
Honestly.. just that game with the same graphics on pc would be enough for me.
i feel like tiger was just lazy now, frisky tom look pretty nice, so many objects and colors even water in the pipes
I had this back in the day. I bought it on my Birthday and the cartoon lady in the tub on the box had me sold! It was an amazing handheld for its time with color to boot and I remember after a few levels there was an intermission just like the Arcade cabinets would have.
GROUND CONTROL TO FRISKY TOM
This is Frisky Tom to Ground Control
I'm climbing 'long the pipes
And I'm plumbing in the most unusual way...
@@HaydenX And the pipes look very different, today ...
Frisky Tom to Ground Control I think I know where to connect my pipe.
PLEASE PUT YOUR PANTS BACK ON
Ground Control to Frisky Tom
Your pipes are dry, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Frisky Tom?
Can you hear me, Frisky Tom?
That florescent display is gorgeous. I have a couple of these old games, but they're LED, one's a space invaders clone and one's a Battlestar Galactica game.
Just FYI, "Frisky" means exactly the same thing in the US. And "Tom" is old slang for a male cat.
+Akaihiryuu77
That means the mice that are ruining the bath are Jerry & his cousins!
That was a logical deduction worthy of Sherlock Holmes!
"Frisky" means exactly the same thing in the US." It can, but usually it just means energetically playful, like a cat might be. Hence, Friskies dry cat food.
So, Tom's name is technically basically Cat Cat then?
I do believe this was the FIRST "Where's My Water." :P
So that's where Disney got the idea from. Those frisky bastards.
Isn't Where's My Water a physics puzzle-y game?
Better than Tiger games.
Oh shit
I have like 8 of those
I fucking hate them
But they're funny to play
As they are so shit
Just about anything was better than those Tiger games.
We took lots of long vacations when me and my little brother were little (6 weeks in each direction) and I remember getting a tiger game of wizards and warriors, one of my favorite games, the sound driving my parents insane and the handheld being appauling. 'Nearly ruining my memory of some of my favorite games.
KombatKittyy Even Aids...............
@Boloyung9 At least with AIDS it's curable as to the appalled feeling you get from playing Tiger games. They were so outdated, they weren't even indated.
It’s incredible, I think, when I can watch more than half of a seven year old video and be EXTREMELY surprised when I realize that it ISN’T brand new... Thank you Ashens.
I will never not love the consistency
I was literally searching something on the floor when you pretended to read the description of the game, i pretty much shouted "WHAT?!" while franticly getting up, only to realise, I had been fooled.
Oh, ashens.
That Frisky Tom game looked like a lot of fun. I'd say it tops some of Nintendo's Game & Watch units for sure, though maybe not in the portability sense.
I like how the hard mode goes at literally the speed of light, imagine playing race and chase on hard mode, assuming you just got It yesterday
If you did not mention the women in bath, I thought it was a giant octopus.
Don't kid yourself MNanme1z4xs it is a giant octopus.
***** Would be more reasonable to be octopus, this is Japan after all.
MNanme1z4xs Okay, now I understand "Frisky Tom".
Aaron Rayner You control the girl, octopus is final boss.
Those old VFD displays really look cool, I had forgotten they used those back then. :D
I would love to own these, especially the first. Pretty damn catchy music for the time it was released!
Race n chase is the original name for grand theft auto
What is the story behind ur pic? Ive noticed alot of ppl have them
@@JRWeezy84 some fortnite youtuber made a bad song about it and some people decided to change their profile pic to his
Still better than all the Pop Stations
Or a twilight story 😒
Shut up with Xbox Ones
Maniac Gaming Why? The xbone is a stinking pile of shite.
I know bruh PS4 is better
Maniac Gaming What does U0001f612 mean?
"Frisky Tom" could definitely be a great minigame/phone game/browser game with a bit of polish (mainly making it clearer what's going on with the pipes falling on you), and "Race 'n' Chase" has potential, too.
Huh... so one of the very first handheld games was by a company in Japan and about a plumber navigating green pipes....
☚ (
Also it looks better than a whole lot of games that are made now days.. Like would you play that or angry birds?
Angry birds.
jaomang oh fuck off mate. Angry birds sucks.
then why was it popular?
That first game seems to be worlds ahead of the Pop Stations that would come around decades later.
You're white very white
frisky tom looks really good actually, impressive stuff.
Thanks for showing Invader From Space. My friend had that when we where kids...spent hours playing it. Simple but fun game for its time.
the frisky tom game actually looked decently fun lol
A contact-cleaner spray and a small metal brush works wonders on those old contacts.
A must for all retro-lovers
"Let's have a quick celebration: (hurray). There we are. That's enough for that".
Frisky tom looked pretty cool for the time. Love the light up LCD games of the era.
Better than the working title, TommyHardon.
You can really tell that Ashens just wants to remain humble about 300 videos rather than wear himself out and do something special about it, he has decided that he wants to continue doing what he does, rather than letting accomplishments get in the way of it. I really respect that, and feel like the only episodes of a series that need to separate themselves from another on purpose are the Pilots, and finales.
Wasn't "Race n' Chase" what GTA was going to be called before they changed it to, well, GTA?
What a fantastic display on that FriskyTom system, a fantastic glow effect from that retro goodness
On the battery side of things, a mercury oxide battery would be best as they have a steady output, not fluctuating slightly like modern cells do, sadly, they are now illegal in most countries because someone thought mercury might be a bit dangerous in a battery.
its extremely dangerous, the biggest risk I would imagine is the mercury leaking out into the environment.
Zach Hohlfeld I am a danger to children
The Stoned Videogame Nerd Voltage per cell is no big limit. There is great potential in the electrode surface development for better capacity and discharge current.
thatguy Use an Energizer Ultimate Lithium battery (they are EXTREMELY expensive; $20 for 8 AA cells). They can retain about 50% capacity after 100 years vacuum-sealed and stored in a freezer (20 years retaining nearly full capacity at varying room temperature). The voltage is 1.90v per cell, as opposed to 1.61v for new alkalines. Lithium AA cells are even lighter weight than carbon-zinc "dollar store batteries", and they last an incredibly long time.
Only one problem. I am able to recharge Alkaline primary cells up to 70 times just fine (I even have a charger specifically advertised and designed to charge non-rechargeable batteries), but Lithium primary cells CANNOT be recharged at all, not even once.
these handhelds take me back. I can remember the last two, the frisky one, Ive heard of but never actually seen before. Thanks for this, finally get to see one. This bugger is rarer than a game child.
Hope you got the dalek sec
*Frisky* Tom may act *erratically*.
who else actually wants to see him put dying batteries in Friskytom
Frisky Tom may act erotically.
boethiah12 exactly!
EROTICCCCC
Interestingly, there's a section of Internet Archives for old LCD and LED game emulation (yes, really) that has FriskyTom available for play.
I so want all of those games :) I also collect everything video game :)
Frisky Tom seems very reminiscent of a Game & Watch game. A little tooling, it could be reworked as one of the old Mario themed Game & Watch games.
"Kono geemu wa tomu wo umaku kontorooru shite, nezumi no..."
HOLY SHIT ASHENS CAN READ JAPANESE!
+SumeaBizarro WEAB SPOTTED
+Sam says the jack ass who uses weab in a sentence like an 8 yr old....Lmao
Anime lover spotted
Virgin spotted
Lmao and my point is proven. Good job
its fantastic how ashens is creating a journal for ancient electronics for generations to come.
Race n chase? Is it related in anyway to the other race n chase that later became GTA
I love these more regular updates. Makes me laugh after a hard day at work. Keep up the great work Doctor :)
Bambino also made the boxing tabletop game.
I love your old school reviews!!
It's either a trip down memory lane or shit I've never seen before - either way it's a win!!
If my budgie ever made 8-bit noises. I would stuff it in a bag and send it to Ashens for blind bag, It would not make it to shelf on interesting things or purgatory. Lets just say that!
So there would be a video of Ashens lighting a dead bird on fire with a blowtorch? That'd be disturbing.
***** It's a type of bird, commonly found as a pet.
WTF TH-cam, trying to hide from me the fact that there's a new video. Ah, the soothing voice of Ashens telling me some random stuff about some weird crap.
2:52 R.I.P Headphone users.Especially ones who had the volume on 100 percent. Lets see if I can post this before I die...
Why would you ever have the volume on 100%
Cuz I cba to turn them down after listening to music.
9:22 is more like it.
man I love the look of the old color lcd games, clock displays or anything like that
'Frisky Tom' sounds like it should be the name of a 'Viz' cartoon.
Loved the Frisky Tom game as a kid in the late 80s. It was one of those things that 'the child whose parents had a bit of money' always brought along on school trips before the advent of the Game Boy. It reminded me a lot of the Super Pipeline games on the C64, which were a lot of fun. But even then Frisky Tom was pretty obscure; most kids just had Nintendo G&Ws or cheap knockoffs. I remember LED games ate through batteries. That thing wouldn't last a day.
Yeah, it's not just the Brits that use the word Frisky like that.
I wonder if anybody has an old Comp IV? I had one in the late 70's and got pretty good at it. The game was just like Mastermind, where you tried to guess the other player's color pegs with your only clues being how many you guessed right and how many were in the correct permutation. The Comp IV used numbers, 1 through 5, with 3,4, or 5 digit permutations to guess, instead of colors since it's display was 10 red LED's next to numbers on the screen itself.
I thought race n chase was the game GTA was based on
Good thing you mentioned someone translated it for you, for a moment I was going nuts because you can read Japanese.
ground control to frisky tom....
This is ground control to Frisky Tom--you've really filled that bath.
Really like these old games, enjoyed the vid, thanks for uploading!
Nice Automan reference, Stuart. Way to get those millenial subs.
I had one of those when I was a kid. It was a large green circular thing where you had to capture animals with a cage (moving box). It was legitimately entertaining for the time!
Frisky tom, priceless.
Black is frisky
Was going to comment when he first turned the on that the monsters looked a bit like the ones in Space Invaders, then I quickly discovered that there was a good reason for that.
1:52
Ground control to major Tom....
tandy made a series of games similar to invaders from space. i have one i recently got working again recently. still fun despite it's age.
also, love those old VFD screens. so much better than the LEDs and LCD screens today
ACT I
SCENE I. A desert place.
Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches
First Witch
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch
When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Third Witch
That will be ere the set of sun.
First Witch
Where the place?
Second Witch
Upon the heath.
Third Witch
There to meet with Macbeth.
First Witch
I come, Graymalkin!
Second Witch
Paddock calls.
Third Witch
Anon.
ALL
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
Exeunt
SCENE II. A camp near Forres.
Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant
DUNCAN
What bloody man is that? He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state.
MALCOLM
This is the sergeant
Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
As thou didst leave it.
Sergeant
Doubtful it stood;
As two spent swimmers, that do cling together
And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--
Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
The multiplying villanies of nature
Do swarm upon him--from the western isles
Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;
And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:
For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;
Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
And fix'd his head upon our battlements.
DUNCAN
O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!
Sergeant
As whence the sun 'gins his reflection
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,
So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come
Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:
No sooner justice had with valour arm'd
Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,
With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men
Began a fresh assault.
DUNCAN
Dismay'd not this
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?
Sergeant
Yes;
As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorise another Golgotha,
I cannot tell.
But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.
DUNCAN
So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;
They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.
Exit Sergeant, attended
Who comes here?
Enter ROSS
MALCOLM
The worthy thane of Ross.
LENNOX
What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look
That seems to speak things strange.
ROSS
God save the king!
DUNCAN
Whence camest thou, worthy thane?
ROSS
From Fife, great king;
Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
And fan our people cold. Norway himself,
With terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,
Confronted him with self-comparisons,
Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.
Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,
The victory fell on us.
DUNCAN
Great happiness!
ROSS
That now
Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:
Nor would we deign him burial of his men
Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch
Ten thousand dollars to our general use.
DUNCAN
No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive
Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,
And with his former title greet Macbeth.
ROSS
I'll see it done.
DUNCAN
What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.
Exeunt
SCENE III. A heath near Forres.
Thunder. Enter the three Witches
First Witch
Where hast thou been, sister?
Second Witch
Killing swine.
Third Witch
Sister, where thou?
First Witch
A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,
And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:--
'Give me,' quoth I:
'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.
Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:
But in a sieve I'll thither sail,
And, like a rat without a tail,
I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
Second Witch
I'll give thee a wind.
First Witch
Thou'rt kind.
Third Witch
And I another.
First Witch
I myself have all the other,
And the very ports they blow,
All the quarters that they know
I' the shipman's card.
I will drain him dry as hay:
Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid;
He shall live a man forbid:
Weary se'nnights nine times nine
Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:
Though his bark cannot be lost,
Yet it shall be tempest-tost.
Look what I have.
Second Witch
Show me, show me.
First Witch
Here I have a pilot's thumb,
Wreck'd as homeward he did come.
Drum within
Third Witch
A drum, a drum!
Macbeth doth come.
ALL
The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,
Thus do go about, about:
Thrice to thine and thrice to mine
And thrice again, to make up nine.
Peace! the charm's wound up.
Enter MACBETH and BANQUO
MACBETH
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
BANQUO
How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these
So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught
That man may question? You seem to understand me,
By each at once her chappy finger laying
Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so.
MACBETH
Speak, if you can: what are you?
First Witch
All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!
Second Witch
All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!
Third Witch
All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!
BANQUO
Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear
Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,
Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
You greet with present grace and great prediction
Of noble having and of royal hope,
That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.
If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favours nor your hate.
First Witch
Hail!
Second Witch
Hail!
Third Witch
Hail!
First Witch
Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.
Second Witch
Not so happy, yet much happier.
Third Witch
Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:
So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!
First Witch
Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!
MACBETH
Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:
By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis;
But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to be king
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence? or why
Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.
Witches vanish
BANQUO
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd?
MACBETH
Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted
As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!
BANQUO
Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?
MACBETH
Your children shall be kings.
BANQUO
You shall be king.
MACBETH
And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?
BANQUO
To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?
Enter ROSS and ANGUS
ROSS
The king hath happily received, Macbeth,
The news of thy success; and when he reads
Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,
His wonders and his praises do contend
Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,
In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,
He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,
Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,
Strange images of death. As thick as hail
Came post with post; and every one did bear
Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,
And pour'd them down before him.
ANGUS
We are sent
To give thee from our royal master thanks;
Only to herald thee into his sight,
Not pay thee.
ROSS
And, for an earnest of a greater honour,
He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:
In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!
For it is thine.
BANQUO
What, can the devil speak true?
MACBETH
The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me
In borrow'd robes?
ANGUS
Who was the thane lives yet;
But under heavy judgment bears that life
Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined
With those of Norway, or did line the rebel
With hidden help and vantage, or that with both
He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not;
But treasons capital, confess'd and proved,
Have overthrown him.
MACBETH
[Aside] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor!
The greatest is behind.
To ROSS and ANGUS
Thanks for your pains.
To BANQUO
Do you not hope your children shall be kings,
When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me
Promised no less to them?
BANQUO
That trusted home
Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,
Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange:
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence.
Cousins, a word, I pray you.
MACBETH
[Aside] Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme.--I thank you, gentlemen.
Aside
Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings:
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not.
BANQUO
Look, how our partner's rapt.
MACBETH
[Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,
Without my stir.
BANQUO
New horrors come upon him,
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould
But with the aid of use.
MACBETH
[Aside] Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
BANQUO
Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.
MACBETH
Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought
With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains
Are register'd where every day I turn
The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king.
Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time,
The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak
Our free hearts each to other.
BANQUO
Very gladly.
MACBETH
Till then, enough. Come, friends.
Exeunt
SCENE IV. Forres. The palace.
Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and Attendants
DUNCAN
Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not
Those in commission yet return'd?
MALCOLM
My liege,
They are not yet come back. But I have spoke
With one that saw him die: who did report
That very frankly he confess'd his treasons,
Implored your highness' pardon and set forth
A deep repentance: nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it; he died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed,
As 'twere a careless trifle.
DUNCAN
There's no art
To find the mind's construction in the face:
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.
Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, and ANGUS
O worthiest cousin!
The sin of my ingratitude even now
Was heavy on me: thou art so far before
That swiftest wing of recompense is slow
To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved,
That the proportion both of thanks and payment
Might have been mine! only I have left to say,
More is thy due than more than all can pay.
MACBETH
The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part
Is to receive our duties; and our duties
Are to your throne and state children and servants,
Which do but what they should, by doing every thing
Safe toward your love and honour.
DUNCAN
Welcome hither:
I have begun to plant thee, and will labour
To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,
That hast no less deserved, nor must be known
No less to have done so, let me enfold thee
And hold thee to my heart.
BANQUO
There if I grow,
The harvest is your own.
DUNCAN
My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,
And you whose places are the nearest, know
We will establish our estate upon
Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter
The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must
Not unaccompanied invest him only,
But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine
On all deservers. From hence to Inverness,
And bind us further to you.
MACBETH
The rest is labour, which is not used for you:
I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful
The hearing of my wife with your approach;
So humbly take my leave.
DUNCAN
My worthy Cawdor!
MACBETH
[Aside] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires:
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Exit
DUNCAN
True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant,
And in his commendations I am fed;
It is a banquet to me. Let's after him,
Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:
It is a peerless kinsman.
Flourish. Exeunt
SCENE V. Inverness. Macbeth's castle.
Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter
LADY MACBETH
'They met me in the day of success: and I have
learned by the perfectest report, they have more in
them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire
to question them further, they made themselves air,
into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in
the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who
all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title,
before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred
me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that
shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver
thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou
mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being
ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it
to thy heart, and farewell.'
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly,
That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis,
That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;
And that which rather thou dost fear to do
Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither,
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;
And chastise with the valour of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crown'd withal.
Enter a Messenger
What is your tidings?
Messenger
The king comes here to-night.
LADY MACBETH
Thou'rt mad to say it:
Is not thy master with him? who, were't so,
Would have inform'd for preparation.
Messenger
So please you, it is true: our thane is coming:
One of my fellows had the speed of him,
Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more
Than would make up his message.
LADY MACBETH
Give him tending;
He brings great news.
Exit Messenger
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry 'Hold, hold!'
Enter MACBETH
Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!
Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!
Thy letters have transported me beyond
This ignorant present, and I feel now
The future in the instant.
MACBETH
My dearest love,
Duncan comes here to-night.
LADY MACBETH
And when goes hence?
MACBETH
To-morrow, as he purposes.
LADY MACBETH
O, never
Shall sun that morrow see!
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't. He that's coming
Must be provided for: and you shall put
This night's great business into my dispatch;
Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
MACBETH
We will speak further.
LADY MACBETH
Only look up clear;
To alter favour ever is to fear:
Leave all the rest to me.
Exeunt
SCENE VI. Before Macbeth's castle.
Hautboys and torches. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and Attendants
DUNCAN
This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air
Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses.
BANQUO
This guest of summer,
The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath
Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,
Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird
Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle:
Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed,
The air is delicate.
Enter LADY MACBETH
DUNCAN
See, see, our honour'd hostess!
The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,
Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you
How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains,
And thank us for your trouble.
LADY MACBETH
All our service
In every point twice done and then done double
Were poor and single business to contend
Against those honours deep and broad wherewith
Your majesty loads our house: for those of old,
And the late dignities heap'd up to them,
We rest your hermits.
DUNCAN
Where's the thane of Cawdor?
We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose
To be his purveyor: but he rides well;
And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him
To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,
We are your guest to-night.
LADY MACBETH
Your servants ever
Have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt,
To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,
Still to return your own.
DUNCAN
Give me your hand;
Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,
And shall continue our graces towards him.
By your leave, hostess.
Exeunt
SCENE VII. Macbeth's castle.
Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH
MACBETH
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases
We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice
To our own lips. He's here in double trust;
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking-off;
And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other.
Enter LADY MACBETH
How now! what news?
LADY MACBETH
He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?
Yes. It even tells you how many lines you are in store for ahead of time. 648. That's more than I will plan to read on a website like that especially when it has nothing to do with anything I assume.
Some riveting shit dude.
This deserves far more likes than it has.
It's amazing what they can do with LED lights.
I'm not a plumber...
Pipes, I fix those.
Water, I drink that.
Sinks, I use them.
But I'm not a plumber.
I agree, it looks like it has that type of addictive gameplay and charm which grows on you, much unlike most LCD handhelds.
If memory serves, Bambino = Italian for children.
Also bambino made a game called bambino boxing...baby boxing
Yes, he featured it in a different video.
Samuel Doye "italian babies beating the shit out of each other
Child. A male one generally. Children are bambini.
I like that the portable version of Frisky Tom looks like you're playing a game on a shortwave radio.
Bambino sounds like an Italian mobster.
lol one letter off your thinking of gambino crew, dont know much about them, just knew at one piont one was head in the mafia
Oh wow. I played that Invaders from Space game so much as a kid. I can't remember the noise being that obnoxious either. Thanks for bringing back the good memories like!
Huh, seems Tom actually was frisky given why he was trying to get that bath filled...
I had one very similar to the Invaders from Space in the early 80s. It had a 2 player option with a second set of controls at the top so player 2 could control the invaders. I loved that game.
Wait... Ashens can read- I just heard you say that someone translated it. Now this comment is useless
Britain owns you
@SkyBlue 1988 You're a little late to say that.
Frisky Tom actually looks like fun!
8:07
Is this how the LSPD & LSCS from GTA V practice their police chases?
Bloody hell, I just watched Ashens' "The Box of Retro Delights" video on TGWTG yesterday, and though "Hmmm, wonder when he'll get around to doing those, those Bambino games look interesting..." Even though the tat is fun, it's great to see these proper games make an appearance occasionally.
Glad to see I'm not the only one. If it weren't for ashens' tumblr I wouldn't have known this video was uploaded. I hope youtube will fix this quickly...
Lots of comments ,doubt I'm first to say, but can't read 1.1k comments to see: the bathtub lady is why he's frisky and why he's so impatient to fill the tub he's randy frisky feeling his oats tom
"Frisky Tom"... Sounds like that one strange neighbor everyone avoids... Haha
Here's a very interesting fact: Race n' chase was the original idea for a game made by rockstar games, later, they changed the Race n' chase to the first game of the Grand Theft Auto series :)
This reminded me of being about 3 years old back in the 80s coming down stairs and my dad having a loch ness board game and a turquoise space invaders handheld which I think mustve been my very first gaming experience
Peace!!
It was indeed. Glad I'm not the only one that instantly jumped to that conclusion!
The shape of the FriskyTom game reminds me of Mattel's Starhawk from 1981. Actually, the beeps are similar though less ear-shattering here.
I had Frisky Tom and Invader from Space. Actually found Invader at a boot sale for £3 about a month ago, IT'S SO BLOODY LOUD!
"Let's try it on skill level 3. And here we g-BLOODY WALLS!!!"
That was the most legit reaction I've heard in a long time. XD
the credits music was amazing
Awesome as always and love this ashens week full of vids
Wow... I do remember Invaders From Space. One of my friends had it when we were younger.
I have the Entex made version of space invaders also was and still is very loud they all had no volume control. I've had mine since 1982 and it still works perfect .
woo 300 vid great one ashens. Keep up the amazing work i subed to you in 2012 and you always make me laugh. Your vids are very unique and never fails to make me laugh about a british joke as im from britain and i get them :) thank you
First handheld that Ashens has ever reviewed that we can actually see properly. :D
The first one (Fr1sky Tom) is an adaptation of an arcade game
The second one (Race N' Chase) to me is a racing game and a "chase the bad guys" type game
The third one (Invader from Space) it's just Space Invaders
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FYI - that's based on an actual coin operated arcade game by Nichibutsu of the same title and game play, which you go around trying to fix pipes as mice attack you.
Oh blimey, I remember these from the Box of Retro Delights! Talk about being an avid fan.
I owed the grandstand football game, 3 players on each team and only one player on your side was controlled by the player, the other 2 moved randomly!!
Ah i loved those days.
when I saw the friskytom game I thought "oh a game and watch" before he started it, turns out it was
lol
Congrats Ashen on 300 Video's!
i love these types of handhelds! i collect these sorts of things
The precursor to Where's My Water
Happy 300th Stuart, here's to seven more years!
that frisky tom display looks pretty decent quality, way better than anything the popstations etc had to offer over 20 years later
That music at the end love it!